Nyra Crenshaw (born 25 May 1957; age 67) is an actress and model who worked as regular background actress, an operations division officer, on Star Trek: The Next Generation between the third and seventh season. According to the call sheet, Crenshaw also filmed a corridor scene for the fourth season episode "First Contact" but this scene was not part of the final episode.
Born in New York City, New York, Crenshaw attended the Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. Today, Crenshaw is living in Hollywood, California, USA. She worked with Benjamin W.S. Lum and Julia Nickson on the stage play "Kimchee and Chitlins: A Serious Comedy About Getting Along" in 1994. [1]
She also appeared as a bar patron in the Cheers episodes "Bar Wars III: The Return of Tecumseh" (1990, with Kirstie Alley, Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth, Keith Rayve, Ree Kai, Ivonne Perez, Debbie David, Don Bennett, Alex Landi, Joycelyn Robinson, Mark Watson, Natalie Wood, Alex Zimmerman, and Melba Gonzalez), "Mr. Otis Regrets" (1990, with Kirstie Alley, Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth, Joycelyn Robinson, Joey Banks, Don Bennett, Jay Crimp, Margaret Flores, Adolphus Hankins, John Hugh McKnight, Lorine Mendell, Keith Rayve, and Rebecca Soladay), "Love Is a Really, Really Perfectly Okay Thing" (1990, with Kirstie Alley, Kelsey Grammer, Don Bennett, Lee Faranda, Ivonne Perez, Rebecca Soladay, Adrian Tafoya, William Ward, Natalie Wood, and Ilona Wilson), and "Breaking in Is Hard to Do" (1990, with Kirstie Alley, Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth, Edward Penn, Paul Willson, Rebecca Soladay, Lee Allen, Don Bennett, Mark Kosakura, Linda Harcharic, and Peter Eastman).