Wendie Malick (born 13 December 1950; age 73) is an actress who voiced Cathiw in the Star Trek: Lower Decks fourth season episode "Empathological Fallacies".
Career[]
Malick is best known for her co-starring role as Judith Tupper in the HBO comedy series Dream On from 1990 to 1996, alongside Chris Demetral, who played her character's son, and Michael McKean in a recurring role, and as Nina Van Horn in the comedy series Just Shoot Me! from 1997 to 2003, alongside Brian Posehn and (in a recurring role) Rebecca Romijn.
She also played the recurring roles of Gayle Buchannon in Baywatch (1989-94), with Monte Markham, Jandi Swanson, James Sloyan, Tom Villard, and Glenn Morshower, and Ronee Lawrence in the final season of Frasier (2003-04), starring Kelsey Grammer. More recently, she co-starred in the TV Land sitcom Hot in Cleveland (2010-15), with Alan Dale. She had a recurring role in the sitcoms American Housewive (2016-21), starring Diedrich Bader, and Young Sheldon (2021-24, the heavy Star Trek referencing The Big Bang Theory spin-off sitcom series), with Ed Begley, Jr. and Wallace Shawn.
Her other television credits include guest roles on series like Mike Hammer (directed by Russ Mayberry), MacGyver (with Geno Silva and Brian J. Williams), NYPD Blue (with Alan Scarfe, Robert Costanzo, Gordon Clapp, John Hostetter, Jack Kehler, Ethan Phillips, and Sharon Lawrence), L.A. Law (starring Corbin Bernsen and Larry Drake, with Saul Rubinek), Tales from the Crypt (with Miguel Ferrer and John Kassir), Seinfeld (starring Jason Alexander), The X-Files (with George Murdock and directed by Kim Manners), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (starring Paul Guilfoyle and Wallace Langham, with Nan Martin and Greg Ellis), Law & Order, Bryan Fuller's Pushing Daisies (with Wilson Cruz, written by Gretchen J. Berg and Aaron Harberts), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, NCIS: New Orleans (starring Scott Bakula, with Patrick Kilpatrick, directed by James Whitmore, Jr.), This Is Us, and Modern Family (starring Ariel Winter).
Malick also made a considerable number of film appearances. These include Scrooged (1988, with John Glover, Carol Kane, Michael J. Pollard, Alfre Woodard, Roy Brocksmith, Sachi Parker, and Logan Ramsey), Leonard Nimoy's Funny About Love (1990, with Freda Foh Shen, Michael Bofshever, and Celeste Yarnall), Bugsy (1991, with Bebe Neuwirth and Robert Beltran), The American President (1995, with David Paymer, Anne Haney, Beau Billingslea, Gail Strickland, Clement von Franckenstein, Jordan Lund, and George Murdock), the drama film Cahoots (2001, starring Keith Carradine, with Bill Erwin), Racing Stripes (2005, with Bruce Greenwood and the voice of Michael Clarke Duncan), Adventureland (2009), Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009), Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009) and About Fifty (2011, with Miriam Flynn), and the drama film Beautiful Dreamer (2020).
She appeared in several TV movies, such as Apollo 11 (1996, with Jeffrey Nordling, Jim Metzler, Stephanie Niznik, Matt Frewer, Tim Kelleher, George Murdock, and William A. Wallace), North Shore (1997), Take My Advice: The Ann and Abby Story (1999), Hello Sister, Goodbye Life (2006), Will You Marry Me? (2008), and Adopted (2021). She co-starred in the Hallmark Original Christmas movies Engaging Father Christmas (2017) and Marrying Father Christmas (2018).
Her voiceover work includes the role of Chicha in 2000's The Emperor's New Groove (who has the distinction of being the first pregnant character in a Disney film), alongside John Fiedler, Miriam Flynn, and Jess Harnell. She reprised the role in Kronk's New Groove (2005, with John Fiedler and Tress MacNeille) and the cartoon series The Emperor's New School (2006-08, with Fred Tatasciore, Tress MacNeille, Frank Welker, Kevin Michael Richardson, Grey Griffin, Dee Bradley Baker, James Sie, Jess Harnell, Michael Gough, Ellen Albertini Dow, Phil LaMarr, and Maurice LaMarche).
She also voiced the character of Burdine Maxwell in the Bratz franchise, including the animated film Brats: Rock Angelz (2005), the series Bratz (2005-06, with Adrian Holmes, Greg Ellis, and Jess Harnell), and the video games Bratz: Passion 4 Fashion (2006) and Bratz: Forever Diamondz (2006, with Greg Ellis, Nolan North, and Jennifer Hale), the recurring part of Beatrice Horseman in the animated sitcom BoJack Horseman (2014-20, with Patton Oswalt, Paul F. Tompkins, and Diedrich Bader), and Eda Clawthorne in The Owl House (with Kari Wahlgren, Kevin Michael Richardson, Nolan North, Dee Bradley Baker, Grey Griffin, Eric Bauza, Bumper Robinson, Robin Atkin Downes, and Kimberly Brooks).
She also lent her voice to episodes of animated series like Ozzy & Drix (with Phil LaMarr), Kim Possible (with Tara Strong), The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius (with Christian Slater, Michael Clarke Duncan, Frank Welker, Andrea Martin, Maurice LaMarche, and Phil LaMarr), Ultimate Spider-Man (with Steven Weber), Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness (with Fred Tatasciore, Kari Wahlgren, James Sie, Kevin Michael Richardson, Nolan North, and Eric Bauza), The Boss Baby: Back in Business (with Kevin Michael Richardson), and Seth MacFarlane's Family Guy.