Japanese-American actress Patti Yasutake, best known for playing Nurse Alyssa Ogawa in the Star Trek universe, died at the age of 70 on Monday, August 5, at the University of California, Santa Monica Medical Center after a long battle with a rare form of T-cell lymphoma. Her passing was announced by her manager Kyle Fritz to ‘The Hollywood Reporter’. “Patti was my first client when I started more than 30 years ago,” he said in a statement. “We enjoyed every day we got to work together, and I will miss her.”
Yasutake received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for her role in ‘The Wash’ (1988), and her big-screen credits include ‘Stop, Mom Shoots’ (1992) and ‘Drop Dead Gorgeous’ (1999). Yasutake played Starfleet officer Nurse Ogawa in 16 episodes of the television series ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ from 1990 to 1994 and reprised the role for ‘Star Trek Generations’ (1994) and ‘Star Trek: First Contact’ (1996). Last year, she appeared in seven episodes of the Netflix series ‘Beef’, playing George Nakai’s feisty mother and Amy Lau’s (Ali Wong) mother-in-law.
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