American actor who played Me Hani Ika Hali Ka Po, the brilliant young queen of Xahea and friend of Sylvia Tilly, in the Short Trek Runaway and in Discovery.
Yadira Guevara-Prip is an American actor whose other television work includes Supernatural, in which she played Kaia Nieves, and See.
She first played Po in Runaway, the opening Short Trek of 2018. Po is a teenage stowaway aboard Discovery who turns out to be a gifted engineer and the reluctant heir to the throne of Xahea; Tilly befriends her and persuades her to go home and be crowned.
Guevara-Prip returned in the second-season Discovery finale Such Sweet Sorrow, in which Queen Po uses her knowledge of dilithium recrystallisation to help charge the time crystal and joins the battle against Control.