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Michelle C. Bonilla (born 2 March 1972; age 52) is an actress who played Bu'kaH in the Star Trek: Enterprise first season episode "Sleeping Dogs".
Bonilla played the recurring role of Christine Harms in ER between 1999 and 2009. Her co-stars on the show included Penny Johnson, Ed Lauter, Rosalind Chao, James Cromwell, Lily Mariye, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Steven Culp, Sam Anderson, and Mädchen Amick. She previously played the recurring role of Teresa Morales (later Gonzales) in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, which starred Joe Lando, Chad Allen, and Barbara Babcock. In 2012, she co-created and starred in the short-lived comedy series Falling Upwards.
Other television roles include guest spots on such programs as Beverly Hills, 90210 (with Ann Gillespie), Murder One (with Barbara Bosson, Juliana Donald, John Fleck, Gregory Itzin, Jack Kehler, Clayton Rohner, and Vanessa Williams), Sisters (with Stephen Collins), Seinfeld (with Jason Alexander and Tim de Zarn), The Pretender (with Charles Rocket), NYPD Blue (with Gordon Clapp amd Sharon Lawrence), JAG (with Daphne Ashbrook and Gregory Itzin), Providence (with Heidi Swedberg, Scott Thompson, and Concetta Tomei), The Division (with Denise Crosby), 24 (with Daniel Dae Kim and Penny Johnson), and Shark (starring Jeri Ryan, in an episode with Mark Rolston). She also appeared in the 1999 TV move Border Line with Len Cariou, John de Lancie, and Mikael Salazar. In 2007, she had a role on an episode of the television drama Shark. Interestingly, the episode was titled "The Wrath of Khan".
She has also appeared in such films as Dunston Checks In (1996, with Jason Alexander and Paula Malcomson), The Rich Man's Wife (1996, with Christopher McDonald), Homegrown (1998), Price of Glory (2000, with Ron Perlman), Kill Your Darlings (2005, with John Larroquette and John Savage), and Sexual Life (2005, with Fionnula Flanagan, Bruce French, and Steven Weber).
More recently, she appeared in guest roles in Castle (2015, with Penny Johnson and Wallace Langham), Criminal Minds (2017), General Hospital (2019), and NCIS: New Orleans (2020, starring Scott Bakula and Necar Zadegan). She also lent her voice to the animated show The Casagrandes (2019).
External links[]
- MichelleCBonilla.com – official site
- Michelle C. Bonilla at the Internet Movie Database
- Michelle C. Bonilla at X (formerly Twitter)
- Michelle C. Bonilla at Instagram
- Michelle C. Bonilla at Facebook