| Denise Crosby  AKA Denise Michelle Crosby
Born: 24-Nov-1957
Birthplace: Hollywood, CA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Tasha Yar on Star Trek Denise Crosby portrayed Chief of Security Natasha Yar on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Crosby who felt stifled in the role and wanted out at the end of the first season, so her character was killed in action by alien-inflicted head trauma. Crosby later returned to the Star Trek universe to play Tasha Yar's daughter, Romulan Commander Sela, and produced two documentaries about Star Trek fandom, Trekkies and Trekkies 2.
Crosby was born out of wedlock, and her mother had to sue her father to establish paternity. The lawsuit took three years, and Crosby's mother won only $100 per week in child support. When she was an infant, her father married a Las Vegas showgirl, who two years earlier had reportedly slept with grandfather Bing Crosby. Crosby never met his granddaughter. She was 19 when he died.
Crosby was married to Geoffrey Edwards, son of director Blake Edwards and stepson of Julie Andrews. She made her film debut at 21 in Edwards' 10, and her best-known film is Stephen King's Pet Sematary. Superior among her film work was the little-seen doomsday drama, Miracle Mile, with Anthony Edwards and Mare Winningham.
Father: Dennis Crosby (musician, son of Bing Crosby, d. 1991 sucide)
Mother: Marilyn Miller Scott (affair, 1957)
Mother: Pat Sheehan (stepmother, Las Vegas showgirl, m. 4-May-1958, div. 1963)
Brother: Dennis Michael Crosby (half-brother, b. 22-Dec-1958, with Sheehan)
Brother: James Anthony Crosby (half-brother, b. 31-Dec-1961, with Sheehan)
Mother: Arleen Crosby (stepmother, secretary, m. 1963)
Husband: Geoffrey Edwards (director, m. 1983, div. 1990)
Husband: Ken Sylk (actor, m. 1995)
Son: August William Sylk (b. 17-Jun-1998)
Posed Naked for Playboy
TELEVISION
Lois & Clark Dr. Gretchen Kelly (1994-95)
Star Trek: The Next Generation Lt. Tasha Yar (1987-94)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Mortuary (12-May-2005)
Trekkies 2 (20-Apr-2004) Herself
Deep Impact (7-May-1998)
Trekkies (18-Oct-1997) Herself
Executive Power (25-Sep-1997)
High Strung (Nov-1994)
Red Shoe Diaries 2: Double Dare (24-Mar-1993)
Dolly Dearest (Jan-1992)
Pet Sematary (21-Apr-1989)
Skin Deep (3-Mar-1989)
Miracle Mile (11-Sep-1988)
Eliminators (31-Jan-1986)
Desert Hearts (28-Aug-1985)
The Man Who Loved Women (16-Dec-1983)
Curse of the Pink Panther (13-Aug-1983)
Trail of the Pink Panther (17-Dec-1982)
48 Hrs. (8-Dec-1982)
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