Michele Scarabelli (born 11 April 1955; age 69) is the actress who portrayed Lieutenant junior grade Jenna D'Sora in the Star Trek: The Next Generation fourth season episode "In Theory" in 1991. Scarabelli filmed her scenes for "In Theory" between Tuesday 2 April 1991 and Thursday 4 April 1991 and Monday 8 April 1991 and Tuesday 9 April 1991 on Paramount Stage 8 and 9.
Scarabelli is probably best known for her role as Susan Francisco in the science fiction television series Alien Nation (1989-1990) and its five following television movies Alien Nation: Dark Horizon (1994), Alien Nation: Body and Soul (1995), Alien Nation: Millennium (1996), Alien Nation: The Enemy Within (1996), and Alien Nation: The Udara Legacy (1997). Among her co-stars in all Alien Nation projects are on-screen husband Eric Pierpoint, Gary Graham, and Ron Fassler. She was interviewed twice for Starlog magazine; in June 1990 by Marc Shapiro for the article "Mother of Newcomers" in issue 155 and in May 2008 by Patrick Jankiewicz for the article "Through Alien Eyes" in issue 365.
Personal[]
Scarabelli was born in the Canadian city of Montréal and attended McGill University in Montréal where she graduated with a degree in psychology. Prior to her career as an actress, Scarabelli worked as a model.
Television[]
Scarabelli started her television career in the early 1980s with supporting roles in the television movies A Matter of Cunning (1983), Reno and the Doc (1984), Letting Go (1985, with Gordon Clapp), The High Price of Passion (1986, with Walker Boone), and The Guaranteed Way to Pick Up Single Women: The Movie (1987) beside guest roles in episodes of The Hitchhiker (1984), Night Heat (1985 and 1986, with Allan G. Royal), Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (1986), The Campbells (1986), Hot Shots (1986), and Seeing Things (1986 and 1987).
In 1986 she was cast to portray Jo Santini in Airwolf which lasted one season before it was cancelled in 1987. Scarabelli then portrayed Connie Hall in several episodes of the soap Dallas in 1988, working with Earl Boen, Joshua Harris, Leigh Taylor-Young, John Anderson, and William Smithers.
Further guest roles include episodes of War of the Worlds (1988, with Richard Chaves and Neil C. Vipond), Diamonds (1988), Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1989, with Bruce Gray), Jake and the Fatman (1989, with Charlie Brill), Highway to Heaven (1989), Father Dowling Mysteries (1990, with Mark Moses), and Sweating Bullets (1991).
She appeared in the television movies Age-Old Friends (1989, directed by Allan Kroeker), Labor of Love (1990), Perry Mason: The Case of the Defiant Daughter (1990, with Kevin Tighe), and Deadbolt (1992, with Cyndi Pass) and worked on Bodies of Evidence (1992, with Kate McNeil, Renée Jones, Albie Selznick, Jeff Yagher, and Biff Yeager) and Dudley (1993, with Joanna Cassidy and Joel Brooks) before she played Jessica MacKenzie in the short-lived family series Okavango: The Wild Frontier (1993).
Scarabelli's other television credits in the 1990s include Beverly Hills, 90210 (1994, with Cress Williams and Martin Cassidy), Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (1994, with Robert Lansing), Ned and Stacey (1997, with Pamela Kosh), Due South (1996), Diagnosis: Murder (1996, with Charles S. Chun and Gregory Itzin), Moloney (1997, with Spencer Garrett), Dawson's Creek (1999), the television thriller The Colony (1995, with Marshall R. Teague, Vince Deadrick, Jr., and Colby French), and the television drama Loss of Faith (1997, with Samantha Eggar).
Later television credits are The Agency episode "The Enemy Within" (2002, with Daniel Benzali, David Clennon, Ronny Cox, and Tom Virtue), the television mini series Le dernier chapitre: La Suite (2002), as voice of monster Six in the animated television series Seven Little Monsters (2000-2003), and Student Seduction (2003).
Film[]
Scarabelli made her feature film debut with a background role as a prom dancer in Prom Night (1980) followed by a featured part in Suzanne (1980). Throughout the 1980s she also appeared in the comedy The Funny Farm (1983, with Derek McGrath), Covergirl (1984, with Cathie Shirriff), The Hotel New Hampshire (1984, with Lisa Banes and Wallace Shawn), Breaking All the Rules (1985), the comedy Perfect Timing (1986, with Stephen Markle), and Snake Eater II: The Drug Buster (1989).
Further film work include I Don't Buy Kisses Anymore (1992, with Jason Alexander, David Bowe, Hilary Shepard Turner, Matthias Hues, and Robert DoQui), Secret Adventures (1994, with George Murdock), The Wrong Woman (1995), 2001: A Space Travesty (2000, with Alan Shearman), Pressure Point (2001), the thriller Living in Fear (2001), the short film Talk 5.0 (2002), and the drama Shattered Glass (2003).
Beside her film work, Scarabelli can also be seen as Agent 03, Michelle Visard, in the video games The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time (1995, with Ray Uhler), The Journeyman Project: Pegasus Prime (1997, with Ray Uhler), and The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time (1998, with Jerry Rector and Graham Jarvis).
Other projects in which she had roles are the comedy Hard Four (2007, with Ed Begley, Jr., Ian Abercrombie, Willie Garson, and Carolyn Seymour) and the short comedy Daryl from OnCar (2008, with Robert Clendenin and Noon Orsatti).
She had a role in the comedy Chicanery, written and directed by Charles Dennis and released in 2017. The film also features Kate Vernon, Lou Wagner, Loren Lester, and Charles Dennis himself.
External links[]
- MicheleScarabelli.com – official site
- Michele Scarabelli at Wikipedia
- Michele Scarabelli at the Internet Movie Database
- Michele Scarabelli at ActorsAccess.com