Marina Sirtis

     Happy birthday Marina Sirtis, born March 29, 1955.

She is an actress best known for playing Counselor Deanna Troi on Star Trek: The Next Generation. She later played the role in four Star Trek films, as well as episodes of Star Trek: Voyager and the series finale of Star Trek: Enterprise and Star Trek: Picard.

Before her role in Star Trek, Marina was featured in supporting roles in several films. In the 1983 Faye Dunaway film The Wicked Lady, she engaged in a whip fight with Dunaway. In the Charles Bronson sequel Death Wish 3, Sirtis' character is a rape victim. In the film Blind Date, she appears as a prostitute who is murdered by a madman.

Other early works include numerous guest-starring roles on British television series. She was in Raffles (1977), Who Pays the Ferryman (1977), Hazell (1978), Minder (1979), the Jim Davidson sitcom Up the Elephant and Round the Castle (1985) and The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1986). She also played the flight attendant in a 1979 Cinzano Bianco television commercial starring Leonard Rossiter and Joan Collins, in which Collins was splattered with drink.

While filming Star Trek: The Next Generation, Marina returned to the UK during the hiatus between seasons three and four in 1990 to film a drama special entitled One Last Chance for the BBC. In 1992, she appeared in an episode of the short-lived series The Fifth Corner and had a cameo in the horror/fantasy movie Waxwork II: Lost in Time. 

After the end of Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1994, she continued to work regularly. Her first role was a departure from previous work, an abused wife in the series Heaven Help Us.

Marina provided the voice of Demona in the animated Disney television series Gargoyles for two seasons starting in 1994. Her Next Generation co-stars, Frakes (as the voice of David Xanatos), Spiner, and Dorn, also lent their voices to the show. She voiced the character again for an episode of the unmade animated series Team Atlantis.

In 1996, she starred as a villainous police detective in the British made-for-television movie, Gadgetman. She played a villainess once again when she guest-starred as a race-track owner under investigation following the death of a driver in Diagnosis: Murder in 1998. The independent movie Paradise Lost, with Sirtis in a starring role, was released in 1999.

In Stargate SG-1 she played Dr. Svetlana Markov in the episode "Watergate".

Sshe voiced the Enterprise's computer in Star Trek Continues,.

On The Orville she played a Teacher in the episode "Sanctuary".

In Star Trek: Lower Decks she voiced Cmdr. Deanna Troi in the episode "No Small Parts".