Person Details

Birthday: 1963-11-19 18:06:07

Aliases: Theresa Lee Farrell

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Cedar Rapids - Iowa - USA

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Movie Involvements: 20

TV Involvements: 3


Most Famous Work

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Theresa Lee "Terry" Farrell (born November 19, 1963, height 5' 11¾" (1,82 m)) is an American former actress and fashion model. She is perhaps best known for her performances in the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Jadzia Dax and Becker as Regina Kostas. Farrell is the daughter of Kay Carol Christine (Bendickson) and Edwin Francis Farrell, Jr. Later, her mother married David W. Grussendorf, who adopted Terry and her sister, Christine. In 1978, she left her hometown for a summer in Mexico City as a foreign exchange student. She has since been fond of big cities, so in her junior year of high school, the nearly six feet tall Farrell submitted her image to the Elite modeling agency in New York City. Shortly after, at the age of 16, she was summoned to New York City and, within two days of arriving, had an exclusive contract with Mademoiselle. After 18 months of modeling, she studied acting with Kate McGregor Stewart while still modeling on the side. Her first major roles were in the short-lived 1983 television series Paper Dolls playing a model and in the feature film Back to School with Rodney Dangerfield. In the spring of 1989, she began studying acting with Stella Adler and appeared in a number of guest-starring roles in series like Quantum Leap and The Cosby Show. In 1992, she played Cat in a second pilot for a U.S. version of Red Dwarf, which was not picked up. Soon after the Red Dwarf USA project folded, she was offered a lead role in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Farrell starred as Jadzia Dax, the space station's Starfleet science officer; a character from an alien species known as the Trill, who is host to a 300-year-old symbiont and can draw upon the memories and knowledge of the symbiont's seven previous hosts. The series debuted in January 1993. When she decided to leave the show at the end of the sixth season, Paramount killed Farrell's "host" character (though continuing the "symbiont" character in a new Dax host, played by Nicole DeBoer). Farrell then co-starred on Paramount's television comedy series Becker. She played Regina "Reggie" Kostas, foil and love interest to Ted Danson's John Becker, for four years and 94 episodes, before she was replaced by Nancy Travis. Farrell also provided the voice of Six of One in the animated short film Tripping the Rift, which eventually became a Sci-Fi Channel TV series with other actors providing the voice of Six. First released independently on the Internet, Tripping the Rift originally featured Patricia Beckmann as the voice of Six and was replaced by Farrell's voice for an episode of the Sci-Fi Channel's short film series Exposure, in which Farrell was guest host. Farrell's version of Six was heard only once on television.The asteroid 26734 Terryfarrell, discovered in 2001, was named in her honor by its discoverer, William Kwong Yu Yeung.Farrell lives in Hershey, Pennsylvania, with her husband, former Sprint Corporation spokesman Brian Baker (a.k.a. the Sprint Guy) and their son. She enjoys sewing and quilting.arrell has appeared with her husband at the Hershey Area Playhouse in Hershey, Pennsylvania in a production of A. R. Gurney's Love Letters.

Most Famous Work

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
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8

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

(1993) Jadzia Dax
Quantum Leap
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8

Quantum Leap

(1989) Lisa Sherman
Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth
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6

Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth

(1992) Joanne 'Joey' Summerskill
For the Love of Spock
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7

For the Love of Spock

(2016) Jadzia Dax (archive footage)
The Deliberate Stranger
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6

The Deliberate Stranger

(1986) Katie Hargreaves
What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
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8
Deep Core
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4

Deep Core

(2000) Allison Saunders
Red Sun Rising
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5

Red Sun Rising

(1994) Det. Karen Ryder

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2019 N/A
2018 Self
2017 Jada
2016 Jadzia Dax (archive footage)
2012 Herself
2003 Herself
Michelle Novack
2002 Marilyn Taylor
Laura Mosbach
2000 Allison Saunders
Dana Boyer
1998 Regina "Reggie" Kostas
Major Agatha Doyle
1997 Self
1996 Maggie Livingston
1995 Self
Jadzia Dax
1994 Det. Karen Ryder
1993 Elizabeth
Host
Jadzia Dax
Jadzia Dax
1992 Joanne 'Joey' Summerskill
Laurie
1991 Mimi Molloy
1990 Party Guest Listening to Aubrey Buffing (uncredited)
1989 Lisa Sherman
1987 Jenell Johnson
1986 Valerie Desmond
Katie Hargreaves
Julie Tyler
1985 N/A
1984 Sally
Laurie Caswell
N/A
1983 Elite Model
1982 Liz Obeck
Year Character Movie/Tv

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