Roxann Dawson

Roxann Dawson earns my admiration less for being B'Elanna Torres on Star Trek: Voyager than for what she did afterward. Plenty of actors shine on camera; far fewer build a real career behind it. A Berkeley graduate, she moved into directing and producing at a time when women calling the shots was still rare, and she earned that chair through craft, not novelty. Her comedy background hints at range too. I respect performers who reinvent themselves rather than coast on a signature role, and Dawson's second act as a working director strikes me as the more impressive story of the two.

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Name (English)

Roxann Dawson

Name (Japanese)

ロクサン・ドースン

Reading

ろくさん・どーすん

Born

September 11, 1958 (age 68)

Origin

Los Angeles, California, United States

Occupation

actor / film director / television director / television producer / comedian

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Dog

University

University of California, Berkeley

• Official sitehttp://www.roxanndawson.net/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/roxanndawson_/
• Xhttps://x.com/roxdaws
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxann%20Dawson
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%89%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q253977

Tags

• California
• actor
• film director
• television director

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.