Career

Acting

Born February 26, 1963 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Masterson's first major role came in 1994 as Ivy Lief on General Hospital. She then spent five years portraying the Bajoran Dabo girl Leeta on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine from 1995 to 1999. Her prominent feature film roles include starring as a sultry singer in James Kerwin's sci-fi film noir Yesterday Was a Lie, which she also produced, and voicing "Janice Em" in the animated film Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles. Her television guest-starring roles include ER and Sliders; in the latter, her role was that of Kelly Welles, the sister of Wade Welles.

Masterson hosted an Entertainment Tonight-style news program for the Sci-Fi Channel in the 1990s called Sci-Fi Entertainment and an Internet-based radio talk show for the website The Fandom in 2004-2005.

After Masterson appeared in two Doctor Who audio adventures from Big Finish Productions, it was announced on October 19, 2012 that she would star in her own spin-off series, Vienna, as "impossibly glamorous bounty hunter" Vienna Salvatori.

In 2010, she voiced the role of Leeta, as a hologram, in Cryptic Studios' Star Trek Online.

Singer

Masterson has released two commercial records: 2011's Yesterday Was a Lie and 2012's "Burned With Desire." In addition, she has released several independent jazz CDs: Thrill of the Chase, whose title is a play on her stage name, the follow-up EP AD ASTRA! (Latin for To the Stars!), the limited edition Crystal Anniversary: Songs from the Holosuite in honor of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's fifteenth anniversary, and the "greatest hits" compilation Jazz Cocktail.

Film producer

Masterson was named Best Feature Film Producer of 2008 by the LA Femme Film Festival for her work as producer of the mystery/drama Yesterday Was a Lie.

Advocacy

In 2013 Masterson co-founded the Pop Culture Hero Coalition, a non-profit organization speaking out against "bullying, racism, misogyny, cyber-bullying, LGBT-bullying, and other forms of hate."

Popularity

In 2004, as a result of her genre work, Masterson was named one of the world's "50 Sexiest Women" by the men's magazine Femme Fatales, and the "Favorite Science Fiction Actress on Television" in a TV Guide reader's poll. In December 2009, AOL named her one of the "Ten Sexiest Aliens on TV", reporting that "Masterson is regularly voted the most popular guest at Star Trek conventions."

Legal issues

Following a series of stalking incidents instigated by a man in Berlin, Masterson - under her real name of Christianne Carafano - was the petitioner in Carafano v. Metrosplash.com, a controversial legal case in which the courts ruled against Masterson and expanded the definition of "interactive computer services" under the Communications Decency Act.

Discography

• Yesterday Was a Lie (2011)
• "Burned With Desire" (2012)

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Role
1994	General Hospital	Ivy Lief
1995-1999	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	Leeta (recurring character; 17 episodes)
1995	ER	Mrs. Phillips (1 episode)
	Live Shot	Sheila Rydell (3 episodes)
1996	Sliders	Kelly Welles (1 episode)
1999	Acapulco H.E.A.T.	Gwen (1 episode)
2002	Presidio Med	Caroline Franklin (1 episode)
2015	The Flash	Sherry (1 episode)

Films

Year	Title	Role
1993	Robin Hood: Men in Tights	Giggling Court Lady
1995	Digital Man	Susie
1997	Ballerina Finale	Lori
1998	Sometimes They Come Back... for More	Major Callie O’Grady
1999	Sammyville	Miranda Clark
2000	The Specials	Moira Murphy
2001	Lightning: Fire from the Sky	Anna
2002	Terminal Invasion	Cathy Garrett
2004	Comic Book: The Movie	Herself
	Creature Unknown	Kat
2005	Take Out	Nicole Blu
2006	Manticore	Ashley Pierce
	Chastity	Madam
2007	Through Your Eyes	Herself
2008	Yesterday Was a Lie	Singer
2011	The Truth Is Out There	Herself
2013	The Search for Simon	The Publisher
2013	R.U.R.: Genesis	Sulla
2014	Unbelievable!!!!!	Captain Connie Garrison

Voice Artist

Year	Title	Role
2007	Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles	Janice
2009	Fist of the North Star: The Shin Saga	Mamiya
2009-2010	Starship Farragut - The Animated Episodes	Carmen Renata / Sheila Johnson / Medical Assistant
2010	Star Trek Online	Leeta
2011	Lun Lun the Flower Girl	Various Characters
	Lun Lun the Flower Girl 2	Various Characters
2011	Fist of the North Star: The Ray Saga	Mamiya
	Fist of the North Star: The Souther Saga	Mamiya
	Fist of the North Star: The Toki Saga	Mamiya
2011	Starzinger	Queen Lacet
2012	Doctor Who: The Shadow Heart	Vienna Salvatori
2012	Doctor Who: Night of the Stormcrow	Peggy Brooks
2013-2015	Vienna	Vienna Salvatori

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