Roxann Dawson

Roxann Dawson (née Caballero, born September 11, 1958), also credited as Roxann Biggs and Roxann Biggs-Dawson, is an American actress and director. She is best known for her role as B'Elanna Torres on the television series '' Star Trek: Voyager'' (1995–2001). In the 2000s, she transitioned to a career primarily as a director, and has directed numerous episodes of television series including '' Star Trek: Enterprise'', ''Crossing Jordan'', ''Cold Case'', '' Heroes'', ''The Closer'', ''The Mentalist'', ''The Good Wife'', '' Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'', '' Mercy Street'', '' The Deuce'' and '' Foundation and Dark Matter.''

Early life

Roxann Dawson Caballero was born September 11, 1958, in Los Angeles, California. She graduated from University of California, Berkeley in 1980.

Career

Acting

Dawson's first professional acting job was in a Broadway production of ''A Chorus Line''."Biography"
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In 1989 Dawson worked on the NBC drama '' Nightingales''. During the course of her work on that show, she met casting director Eric Dawson, who would later become her second husband. After the show was canceled, Eric's company cast her in guest roles on '' Matlock'' and '' Jake and the Fat Man''.Korbelik, Jeff (September 10, 2005)
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In 1994, Dawson was cast as the half Human/half-Klingon engineer B'Elanna Torres on '' Star Trek: Voyager''. She was a main cast member for all seven seasons of the show.

Her other television credits include appearances on '' The Hat Squad'', ''Baywatch'', ''The Closer'', '' Matlock'', '' The Untouchables'', '' Any Day Now'', ''Without a Trace'', '' The Lyon's Den'', ''The Division'', the U.S. version of ''Coupling'' and the science fiction television series '' Seven Days''.

Directing and producing

While working on ''Voyager'', Dawson made her directorial debut on the episode "Riddles", which aired in September 1999. She later directed the second part of the two-part episode "Workforce" and directed 10 episodes of '' Star Trek: Enterprise''. In 2002, she provided the voice of the repair station computer in one of the ''Star Trek: Enterprise'' episodes she directed.

Dawson has also directed episodes of ''Charmed, The O.C., Close to Home'', '' Lost, Heroes, Hawthorne, The Closer, Cold Case, Caprica'', ''The Mentalist'' and '' Treme''. In 2010, she directed the season two episode " Teacher and Pupils" of '' Lie to Me'' and the season two episode " On Tap" of ''The Good Wife''. In 2013, she directed the March 22 episode "Reunions" of ''Touch'', and the October 15 episode " Eye Spy" of '' Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.''.

In 2014 she directed the March 5 episode "Dreamcatcher" of ''Revolution'' and the October 22 episode "Phobia" of '' Stalker''. For the 2015 season of the Amazon Video series '' Bosch'', she directed "Chapter Six: Donkey's Years"). She directed early episodes of '' Mercy Street'', a series released on PBS in January 2016. In 2016, she also directed the season one episodes "Broussard" and "Zero Day" of the TV series ''Colony''. She's also directed the episode "Crossbreed" of season five of ''The Americans''. She also directed episode 8 ("Chapter 60") of the fifth season of ''House of Cards''. In 2021, Dawson was the director of episodes 8 and 9 of season 1 and in 2023 she directed episodes 8 and 9 of season 2 of '' Foundation''.

Dawson was a producer on ''Scandal, Crossing Jordan'' and ''Cold Case''.

Writing

Dawson's first play, ''Desire to Fall'', was produced by the Circle Repertory Company workshop in 1986. Her second play, ''Passage Through the Heart'', debuted in 1997 at the University of Minnesota Duluth. From 2000 to she co-wrote with Daniel Graham a trilogy of science fiction novels, ''Entering Tenebrea'' (), ''Tenebrea's Hope'' () and ''Tenebrea Rising'' ().

Personal life

Dawson was married to actor Casey Biggs; they later divorced. He later became a recurring cast member of the sister series '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as'' the Cardassian Damar.

In May 1994 Dawson married casting director Eric Dawson, whom she met while working on the series ''Nightingales''. They have two daughters, one adopted from China. Dawson joined the Catholic Church at the time of her second marriage in 1994, despite having been raised in "an atheist household". It eventually inspired her to direct the 2019 Christian film '' Breakthrough''.

Filmography

Acting credits

Film

Television series

Video games

Documentaries

Audiobooks

Theatre

Directing credits

Film

Television

Writing credits

Awards and nominations

See also

* List of female film and television directors

References

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1958 births
Living people
20th-century American actresses
20th-century Roman Catholics
21st-century American actresses
21st-century Roman Catholics
Actresses from Los Angeles
American film actresses
American Roman Catholics
American stage actresses
American television actresses
American women television directors
American women television producers
Catholics from California
Converts to Roman Catholicism from atheism or agnosticism
Hispanic and Latino American actresses
Television producers from California
University of California, Berkeley alumni