Denise Crosby is an American movie star. Actress. Also acts as a producer. The California Native 101 has a track record of cinematography. She played roles in such well-known films of the full-length format as “Nerves at the Limit”, “Encounter with the Abyss”, “Pet Cemetery”. She played the heroines of multi-series projects: "Escape", "Southland", "Dexter", "Star Trek: The Next Generation", "The X-Files". Crosby began her career in cinema in 1965, when she became Lisa Davis in the Days of Our Life project.
Most often she collaborated with actors: Larry Poindexter, Kenneth Taigar, Lawrence Pressman, Raphael Sbarge, Alison Reed and others. Films with Denise Crosby belong to the genres: drama, thriller, crime.
The actress was born under the sign of Sagittarius. Married to actor Ken Silk. Prior to this, she was married to Jeffrey Edwards. The mother of one child.
Biography
Denise Crosby was born on November 24, 1957 in the California area of Hollywood. Her father is actor Dennis Crosby, grandfather is the famous jazzman Bingle Crosby. She first joined the cinematic community in the early 1980s, playing a small role in the multi-part project Days of Our Lives. Then, as an actress, she participated in the creation of the film “The Panther of the Pink Panther” and in its continuation, “The Curse of the Pink Panther”. Often, during that period, she had to play crazy women in horror films. Among her most famous works is a role in the 1989 film "Pet Cemetery", which was based on the famous work of writer Stephen King. Two years before, actress Denise Crosby portrayed one of the key characters in the American science fiction series Star Trek: The Next Generation. It is known that at the beginning of her professional career, the actress worked on television and worked as a model.
Career development
In 1993, she reincarnated on the screen as the heroine of the soap opera Kay-Ust. After that, she was no longer able to become a leading person in large-scale projects. It was possible to see her in those years only in cheap films and series. In 2013, a new stage in her career began when she was offered a supporting role in the television series drama Ray Donovan. A year later, she joined the cast of The Walking Dead, a popular TV series about heroes trying to survive a global catastrophe.
Famous projects
In 1982, Denise Crosby joined the cast of the thriller and comedy film 48 Hours, in which Nick Nolty and Eddie Murphy played the main characters. At the center of this story is a policeman who has to work with a fraudster to catch those who killed his colleagues.
Three years later, the actress was transformed into the heroine of Pat in the full-length project "The Misfit Hearts" of the melodrama genre. This is a visual tale of a woman named Vivienne who ends up in one of Nevada's towns with the goal of divorcing her failed marriage. The painting then received one of the IFF awards in the city of Locarno.
In 1989, Denise Crosby got the lead role in the project "Pet Cemetery", where she becomes Rachel. The protagonist of this picture decides to bury his deceased under the wheels of a pet car in the cemetery, which is rumored to be the place where the resurrection takes place.
On the role in the movie Star Trek: The Next Generation
The actress played the role of officer Tasha Yar in this famous science fiction project. She admits that at that time she felt unhappy due to the fact that she did not feel the development of the image of her heroine. According to her, then she studied at an acting school and dreamed of big roles, and therefore decided to leave because of this project, as she considered that she could not do the same for six years and put on the same costume. Denise Crosby recalls that one of the filmmakers, Gene Roddenberry, was sympathetic to her choice, although he regretted her departure from this project. At that time, information appeared in many American media that the producers fired the actress because of her desire to participate in photography for Playboy magazine, but Crosby claims that this is not true.