Terry Farrell

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Terry Farrell

Birth name:	Theresa Lee Farrell Grussendorf
Date of birth:	19 November 1963
Place of birth:	Cedar Rapids, Iowa USA
Characters:	Jadzia Dax (primary); see additional characters

Theresa Lee Farrell Grussendorf, known professionally as Terry Farrell, (born 19 November 1963; age 44) is the actress who played Jadzia Dax on the first six seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

She also played the mirror universe version of Jadzia in "Through the Looking Glass" and "Shattered Mirror", as well as Honey Bare in "Our Man Bashir" and Darlene Kursky in the acclaimed episode "Far Beyond the Stars".

She also provided the voice of Jadzia Dax in the video games Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Harbinger and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Fallen.

Her favorite episodes are "Far Beyond the Stars", "Fascination", "Playing God", "Blood Oath", "You Are Cordially Invited" and "Change of Heart".

She was good friends with Marina Sirtis and Michael Dorn and several other cast members of Star Trek: The Next Generation before Deep Space Nine began. She was speaking to Sirtis when she got the call to go to Rick Berman's office, where she was told that she had gotten the role of Jadzia Dax.

In 1984, she starred in the television series Paper Dolls with her future "Playing God" guest star Geoffrey Blake. (Blake is her second favorite DS9 guest star; her favorite guest star is John Glover, who starred in "Invasive Procedures".) In 1992, she played Cat in the second pilot of the American version of Red Dwarf (Viewable at YouTube). Despite playing the title role in the 1992 Quantum Leap episode "A Leap for Lisa" alongside Enterprise captain Scott Bakula and Enterprise guest star Dean Stockwell, she made only a brief appearance.

Among her film credits is 1986's Back to School (which also featured Sally Kellerman, Adrienne Barbeau and Robert Picardo).

After six seasons on DS9, Farrell was presented with the chance to join the Paramount sitcom Becker. Instead of renewing her original contract for DS9 for one more season, she left and joined the cast of Becker in 1998 where she stayed for four years playing the character of Reggie Costas. There were many rumors as to why Farrell left DS9; some believed she wanted more money, there were differences with producers, or she had arguments with fellow cast members.

After leaving Deep Space Nine, Farrell stated that, if asked, she would love to return to Star Trek to play Jadzia as a clone, Jadzia from another universe or a hologram. She also stated she grew greatly from playing Dax and that she wouldn't change a second of her time with Star Trek.

Farrell's character, Jadzia, was not seen as a part of the flashback sequences toward the end of "What You Leave Behind". This was due to the circumstance that Farrell did not give the producers her permission to use pictures of her in those scenes. Although a scene was written for Jadzia in the final episode, budget costs meant they couldn't afford Farrell and the scene was never filmed.

At a Star Trek convention in 2007, Farrell said she wished she had not been so quick to leave Deep Space Nine, because "Jadzia Dax was the coolest character"; even Reggie can't compare: "It's hard to go from [playing] a hero to a neurotic, bad cook," she explained.