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Irene Roseen (born 30 December 1942; age 82) is an actress who appeared as a Vulcan elder in Star Trek.

Roseen started her acting career in the late '70s with an appearance in the drama I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977, with Mary Carver, Clint Howard, and Nancy Parsons) and appeared from the '80s on regular in movies and television series such as Tales from the Darkside (1987), The Charmings (1987, with Paul Eiding and Paul Winfield), Lou Antonio's Dark Holiday (1989, with Ian Abercrombie), Calendar Girl (1993), the television special Hart to Hart: Home Is Where the Hart Is (1994, with Mitchell Ryan and Brian Cousins), Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead (1994), and the short film Son for Sail (1995, with John Vickery).

Roseen had guest roles in ER (1995, starring Eriq La Salle, with Christine Harnos and Adam Scott), Picket Fences (1996, with Kelly Connell, Ray Walston, Louise Fletcher, Lisa Chess, and Mark L. Taylor), Married... with Children (1997), Encore! Encore! (1998), The Young and the Restless (2000), Judging Amy (2000, with Sara Mornell), Gideon's Crossing (2001, with Christine Healy, Fran Bennett, Freda Foh Shen, and Pinky Villaseñor), The Guardian (2001, with Raphael Sbarge and Lawrence Pressman), According to Jim (2002, with Dennis Cockrum), LAX (2004, with Ron Fassler and Iona Morris), In Justice (2006, with John Balma), Criminal Minds (2006, with Ethan Phillips and Scott Wilder), and Bones (2006, with James W. Jansen).

Her film credits include the short film Qiana (1996, with Paul Dooley), L.A. Confidential (1997, with James Cromwell, Paul Guilfoyle and Matt McCoy), Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999, with Brent Spiner and Vulcan co-star Mark Bramhall), Buddy Boy (1999), The Next Best Thing (2000), Running Mates (2000, with Teri Hatcher, Bob Gunton, Bruce McGill, Wayne Péré, Matt Malloy, Bruce Bohne, Robert Clendenin, Katelin Petersen, and Jack Shearer), Beautiful (2000), The Family Man (2000, with Saul Rubinek), How High (2001), Speakeasy (2002, with Christopher McDonald), the television special McBride: The Chameleon Murder (2005, with Marta Dubois, John Larroquette, Terrence Beasor, and Mike Baldridge), Wedding Crashers (2005), The Benchwarmers (2006), and the drama Miriam (2006).

Later projects are a guest role in Mad Men (2007), the comedy The Happiest Day of His Life (2007, with Harry Groener, Julie Cobb, and Seymour Cassel), and Evan Almighty (2007, with Jimmy Bennett, Harve Presnell, Rachael Harris, Bruce Gray, Paul Collins, William Dennis Hunt, Tucker Smallwood, and Gregg Daniel).

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