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Susan Duchow (born 8 May 1951; age 73) is an actress who was the stand-in for Denise Crosby on the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. She also played a Starfleet officer in several episodes and received no credit for her work. During the early production of The Next Generation, Duchow worked as a test model for the VISOR.
In 1989 she played Adele Gentry in My Name Is Bill W. (alongside Star Trek performers George Coe, Ray Reinhardt, Robert Harper, and Fritz Weaver) and worked as a set production assistant for the 1992 television drama Obsessed.