Claudette Sutherland (born 13 July 1939; age 85) is an actress from Portland, Oregon who portrayed Maya in the Star Trek: Enterprise first season episode "Oasis". Her prior television credits include a regular role on HeartBeat in 1988, starring Kate Mulgrew and Gail Strickland, with Julie Cobb and Hallie Todd, and recurring roles on Herman's Head (starring Molly Hagan, including an episode with Leland Orser), NYPD Blue (with series regulars Gordon Clapp and Sharon Lawrence, as well as Daniel Benzali and Basil Wallace), and Suddenly Susan (including an episode with Bill Erwin).
Sutherland played Smitty in the original Broadway production of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying from 1961 through 1965. In 1977, she performed with Laurence Luckinbill in the original Broadway play The Shadow Box. In addition, Sutherland has two feature films to her credit, beginning with a supporting role in A Little Romance (1979, starring Sally Kellerman). This was followed over fifteen years later with a lead role in Man of the Year (1995). Between these films, she was seen in Stop at Nothing (1991), Living a Lie (1991, with David Andrews and directed by Larry Shaw), Cruel Doubt (1992, with Miguel Ferrer, Stefan Gierasch, and Neal McDonough), Betrayed by Love (1994, with Randy Oglesby and Steven Weber), and A Place for Annie (1994).
Her most recent acting credit is a guest role in a 2004 episode of Crossing Jordan, starring Miguel Ferrer and Jerry O'Connell, with Alan Dale, Susan Gibney, Lawrence Pressman, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's Armin Shimerman.
Other Trek connections[]
Additional projects in which Sutherland worked with other Star Trek alumni are:
- Newhart (1989, with Tony Papenfuss)
- Murphy Brown (1991, with Basil Langton)
- The Golden Girls (1991, with Zach Grenier, Leland Orser, and Tony Plana)
- Sisters (1993, with Ashley Judd)
- Dave's World (1994, with Gregory Itzin)
- On Our Own (1996, with Roger Aaron Brown)
- Picket Fences (1995, with Steve Vinovich and Ray Walston)
- Courthouse (1995, with Cecily Adams, Jacqueline Kim, and Mark Rolston)
- Murphy Brown (1997, with Don McManus and David Youse)
- To Have & To Hold pilot episode (1998, with Fionnula Flanagan and Mariette Hartley)
- Maggie (1998, starring Ann Cusack, with Michael John Anderson)
- Judging Amy (1999, with Kitty Swink)
- The Guardian (2002, with John Rubinstein, Raphael Sbarge, and Todd Waring; directed by Kevin Sullivan)
- Nancy Drew (2002 TV movie, with James Avery, Brett Cullen, Ellen Geer, and Kevin Tighe)
External links[]
- GoToClaudette.com - Sutherland's creative writing web site
- Claudette Sutherland at the Internet Movie Database
- Claudette Sutherland at the Internet Broadway Database