Denise Crosby is an American actress and model known for portraying Security Chief Tasha Yar mainly in season one of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Yar’s daughter, the half-Romulan Commander Sela, in subsequent seasons. She is also known for her numerous film and television roles, and for starring in and producing the film Trekkies.
Crosby performed alongside Gale Harold and ex-model Claudia Mason in Tennessee Williams’ Orpheus Descending at Theater in Los Angeles. She starred in Stephen King’s Pet Sematary, played the lead role in Dolly Dearest in 1991, and also appeared in Deep Impact and Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown. Her other film roles included the 2002 Western horror film Legend of the Phantom Rider, and the 2005 Tobe Hooper horror film Mortuary. She has a recurring role on Showtime’s 2013 series Ray Donovan, appeared in three episodes of AMC’s The Walking Dead as Mary, a member of a group of cannibals, played the role of widow Margie Curtis in the TV series Bones, season three, episode four, “The Secret in the Soil”, and played the role of Special Master Faye Richardson in the legal drama Suits in its final season. Crosby was a guest star in “Popping Cherry”, the third episode of the first season of Dexter, appearing via flashback as Dexter Morgan’s first victim. Crosby had a recurring role in Southland as Detective Dan “Sal” Salinger’s wife.