Gates McFadden

Gates McFadden will always be Dr. Beverly Crusher to me, and that's a compliment to how fully she inhabited the role across The Next Generation, four films, Picard, and Prodigy. What I didn't fully appreciate until reading about her is the dual career: she's credited as Cheryl McFadden when she works as a choreographer, a discipline she trained in seriously after Brandeis. That blend of movement expertise and acting gives her performances a physical thoughtfulness. There's something admirable about an Ohio-born artist who refused to be only one thing, quietly building a body of work behind the camera as well as in front of it.

Name (English)

Gates McFadden

Name (Japanese)

ゲイツ・マクファーデン

Reading

げいつ・まくふぁーでん

Born

March 2, 1949 (age 77)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Ox

Origin

Akron, Ohio, United States

Occupation

television actor / film actor / actor / choreographer / camera operator

University

Brandeis University

Motto

Private

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• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B2%E3%82%A4%E3%83%84%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%AF%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BC%E3%83%87%E3%83%B3

Tags

• Ohio
• television actor
• film actor
• actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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