Majel Barrett-Roddenberry was an American actress and producer.
27 Facts About Majel Barrett
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Majel Barrett was best known for her roles as various characters in the Star Trek franchise: Nurse Christine Chapel, Number One, Lwaxana Troi, and the voice of most onboard computer interfaces throughout the series from 1966 to 2023.
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Majel Barrett married Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry in 1969.
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Majel Barrett attended Shaker Heights High School, graduating in 1950 before going on to the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, then had some stage roles and came to Hollywood.
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Majel Barrett's father, William Hudec, was a Cleveland police officer.
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Majel Barrett was killed in the line of duty on August 30,1955 while Barrett was touring with an off-Broadway road company.
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Majel Barrett worked at the Desilu Studios on several TV shows, including Bonanza, The Untouchables, The Lucy Show, and The Lieutenant.
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In various roles, Majel Barrett participated in every incarnation of the popular science fiction Star Trek franchise produced during her lifetime, including live-action and animated versions, television and cinema, and nearly all of the time periods in which the various series have been set.
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Majel Barrett first appeared in Star Trek's initial pilot, "The Cage", as the USS Enterprise's unnamed first officer, "Number One".
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Majel Barrett was romantically involved with Roddenberry, whose marriage was on the verge of failing at the time, and the idea of having an otherwise unknown woman in a leading role just because she was the producer's girlfriend is said to have infuriated NBC network executives who insisted that Roddenberry give the role to a man.
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Majel Barrett provided several voices for Star Trek: The Animated Series, including those of Nurse Chapel and a communications officer named M'Ress, an ailuroid officer who served alongside Uhura.
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Majel Barrett returned years later in Star Trek: The Next Generation, cast as the outrageously self-assertive, iconoclastic, Betazoid ambassador, Lwaxana Troi, who appeared as a recurring character in the series, often visiting her daughter Deanna, the ship's counselor.
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Majel Barrett later appeared as Ambassador Troi in several episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, where her character developed a strong relationship with Constable Odo.
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Majel Barrett provided the regular voice of the onboard computers of Federation starships for Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, and most of the Star Trek movies.
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Majel Barrett reprised her role as a shipboard computer's voice in two episodes of the prequel series Star Trek: Enterprise, thus making her the only actor to have a role in all six televised Star Trek series produced up to that time.
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Majel Barrett lent her voice to various computer games and software related to the franchise.
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Majel Barrett had made a point of attending a major Star Trek convention each year in an effort to inspire fans and keep the franchise alive.
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Majel Barrett appeared as Primus Dominic in Roddenberry's 1973 postapocalyptic TV drama pilot, Genesis II; as Dr Bradley in his 1974 television film The Questor Tapes and as Lilith the housekeeper in his 1977 TV drama pilot, Spectre.
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Majel Barrett appeared in Michael Crichton's 1973 sci-fi Western, Westworld as Miss Carrie, a robot brothel madam; the 1977 Stanley Kramer thriller The Domino Principle; and the 1979 television film The Man in the Santa Claus Suit starring Fred Astaire.
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Majel Barrett was executive producer of Earth: Final Conflict, and Andromeda.
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Majel Barrett served as creative director for Gene Roddenberry's Lost Universe, a comic book series based on another archival Roddenberry concept.
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Majel Barrett's widely recognized voice performance as the Star Trek computer inspired the Amazon Alexa interactive virtual assistant, according to its developer Toni Reid, although Majel Barrett had no direct role in it.
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In 1969, while scouting locations in Japan for MGM, Roddenberry realized that he missed Majel Barrett, and proposed to her by telephone.
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Majel Barrett subsequently joined Roddenberry in Tokyo, where they were married in a Shinto ceremony on August 6,1969.
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Roddenberry and Majel Barrett both wore kimono, and spent their honeymoon touring Japan.
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Majel Barrett continued to have liaisons with other women, telling his friends that, while in Japan, he had an encounter with a masseuse about a week after he was married.
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Majel Barrett-Roddenberry died on the morning of December 18,2008, at her home in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California, as a result of leukemia.