Terry Farrell (actress)

Farrell was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.^[2]

Farrell started her career in modeling, and studied acting while still modeling on the side. Her first major roles were in the short-lived 1984 television series Paper Dolls, playing a model, and in the feature film Back to School (her film debut), playing the love interest of Keith Gordon’s character. In 1986, Farrell appeared in an episode of The Twilight Zone.

In 1989, she began studying acting with Stella Adler and appeared in a number of guest-starring roles in television series, including 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 failure of the Red Dwarf USA project, she was cast in a lead role in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Farrell portrayed Jadzia Dax, the space station's Starfleet science officer, a character from an alien species known as the Trill, who is the 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, Farrell left the show at the end of the sixth season.^[3]

Farrell's next regular role was 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. Her character was written out of the show before the fifth season. Farrell told the Tampa Bay Times that she was fired from the show just after the fourth season's cliffhanger finale aired. Farrell stated that she was surprised by her dismissal from the series.^[4][5]

Farrell also provided the voice of Six of One in the animated short film Tripping the Rift, which eventually became a Sci-Fi Channel series in which Farrell did not reprise her role. First released independently on the Internet, Tripping the Rift originally featured Patricia Beckmann as the voice of Six; Beckmann's voice was replaced by Farrell's for an episode of the Sci-Fi Channel's short film series Exposure, in which Farrell was guest host.

In 2015, Farrell played a role in the web-released fan film Star Trek: Renegades.

Farrell largely retired from acting in 2002 after marrying actor Brian Baker, wishing to concentrate on her family.^[6] Farrell and Baker lived in Hershey, Pennsylvania, with their son.^[7] She enjoys sewing^[8] and yoga.^[6] Farrell appeared with Baker at the Hershey Area Playhouse in Hershey, in a production of A.R. Gurney's Love Letters.^[7] Farrell and Baker have been divorced since December 2015.^[9]

In August 2015, she began a relationship with Adam Nimoy,^[10] the son of Star Trek actor Leonard Nimoy. Farrell later confirmed on Twitter that they were engaged. Farrell and Nimoy were married in San Francisco on March 26, 2018.^[11] In a 2024 interview Nimoy called the marriage "brief," and confirmed that it had ended.^[12]

Farrell and her Star Trek: Deep Space Nine co-star Nana Visitor were honored in 2001 when William Kwong Yu Yeung named two small Solar System bodies he had discovered after them – asteroid 26734 Terryfarrell and asteroid 26733 Nanavisitor.^[13][14]