American actor, known as Detective Kima Greggs in The Wire, who played Michael Burnham's mother Dr. Gabrielle Burnham in the second and third seasons of Star Trek: Discovery.
Sonja Sohn is an American actor and director, born in 1964, who came to prominence in the film Slam and spent five seasons as Kima Greggs in The Wire. Later credits include Body of Proof and The Chi.
She joined Star Trek: Discovery in its second season as Dr. Gabrielle Burnham, long believed killed in a Klingon raid on Doctari Alpha. The Red Angel and Perpetual Infinity reveal that she escaped in an experimental time suit and has spent years trying to stop the rogue intelligence Control from wiping out sentient life.
Sohn returned in the third season episode Unification III, in which Gabrielle, stranded in the 32nd century, has joined the Romulan sisterhood of the Qowat Milat on Ni'Var and acts as her daughter's advocate.