American actress, comedian and musician who voiced Beckett Mariner in Star Trek: Lower Decks and played Illa Dax in Starfleet Academy.
Tawny Newsome is an American actress, comedian, musician and writer known for Bajillion Dollar Propertie$, Space Force and the podcast Yo, Is This Racist?
She voiced Ensign Beckett Mariner, the rule-bending, highly capable junior officer of the USS Cerritos, across all five seasons of Star Trek: Lower Decks. Newsome also played Mariner in live action in the Strange New Worlds crossover Those Old Scientists, and she later joined Star Trek: Starfleet Academy as Professor Illa Dax, a new host of the Dax symbiont.