Gender: Female Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States Executive summary: Dr. Crusher on Star Trek: TNG
Gates McFadden showed an early interest in dance, beginning dance and tap lessons at age three. During college at Brandeis University, she took time off to go to France and study under famed choreographer and drama coach Jacques Lecoq. She has taught "the Lecoq method" at the University of Southern California, New York University, and Brandeis. She dropped her first name after earning her first few credits as a muppet choreographer, working with Jim Henson on The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, and The Muppets Take Manhattan (which also featured her first on-screen appearance as an actress, playing Dabney Coleman's secretary).
As Dr. Beverly Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation, McFadden cured strange new diseases and mothered the perpetually adolescent Wesley (Wil Wheaton). She left the show after its first season, and Dr. Crusher was written away as having been named head of Star Fleet Medical. Diana Muldaur beamed aboard as Dr. Kate Pulaski, but Muldaur disappeared when McFadden/Crusher returned for the third and subsequent seasons. McFadden played doctors in her most famous roles, on Star Trek and the soap opera All My Children. Since ST:TNG ended she has been involved with Doctors Without Borders. As of 2005, she is living in the south of France, restoring an old theater.
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AKA Cheryl Gates McFadden