Early life and education

Born Susan Plaksin in Buffalo, New York, she was raised in Kingston, Pennsylvania. She attended Northwestern University.

Career

She began her career on the stage, and played four characters opposite Anthony Newley in the national revival tour of Stop the World, I Want to Get Off. She also played "Marquise Theresa Du Parc" in the Broadway production of La Bête.

Plakson was a regular in the sitcom Love & War, playing sportswriter Mary Margaret "Meg" Tynan. She played four characters on various Star Trek series: a Vulcan, Doctor Selar, in "The Schizoid Man" (Star Trek: The Next Generation); the half-Klingon/half-Human Ambassador K'Ehleyr in "The Emissary" (Star Trek: The Next Generation) and "Reunion" (Star Trek: The Next Generation); the Lady Q in "The Q and the Grey" (Star Trek: Voyager); and an Andorian, Tarah, in "Cease Fire" (Star Trek: Enterprise).

She played the blue brontosaurus real estate agent Monica de Vertebrae on Dinosaurs as well as many other guest voices. Plakson has had various recurring roles in sitcoms such as Mad About You, Everybody Loves Raymond and How I Met Your Mother. She has acted in movies such as Disclosure, Red Eye, and Wag the Dog.

She wrote and performed an allegorical solo show, An Evening with Eve. Plakson penned and performed the alternative country rock album DidnWannaDoIt! produced by Jay Ferguson, and released the video of the title song on YouTube. She wrote and recorded the audiobook/e-book, The Return of King Lillian, a mythic allegory.

Filmography

Movies

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1988	My Stepmother Is an Alien	Tenley
1991	Bingo	Ginger
1994	Disclosure	Mary Anne Hunter
1997	Wag the Dog	Grace
2001	On Edge	Janet Bellamy
2005	Red Eye	Senior Flight Attendant

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1987	CBS Summer Playhouse	Yolanda	1 Episode: Reno and Yolanda
	Family Ties	Doris	1 Episode, Super Mom
1988	Eisenhower and Lutz	Sheri Blankenship	1 Episode: Blast from the Past
	Annie McGuire	Mrs. Cipriani	1 Episode, The Fried Shoe
1989	Murphy Brown	Jackie	1 Episode, I Would Have Danced All Night
	Married to the Mob	Connie Russo	TV Movie
	White Lies	Phyllis	TV Movie
1989-90	Star Trek: The Next Generation	K'Ehleyr / Lt. Selar, M.D.	3 Episodes: Reunion, The Emissary, The Schizoid Man
1990	Beauty and the Beast	Susan	1 Episode: In the Forests of the Night
1991	The Torkelsons	Verna	1 Episode: Poetry in Motion
1991-94	Dinosaurs	Monica Devertebrae / Elder #3 / Sally	14 Episodes
1992-95	Love & War	Mary Margaret 'Meg' Tynan	67 Episodes
1995	Double Rush	Meg Tynan	1 Episode: Comings and Goings
1996	Star Trek: Voyager	Female Q	1 Episode: The Q and the Grey
1996-99	Mad About You	Dr. Joan Golfinos	18 Episodes
1997	Johnny Bravo	Vivian Vixen	1 Episode: Johnny Bravo Meets Adam West
1998	Men in Black: The Series	Edie	1 Episode: The Sonic Boom Syndrome
1999	Family Guy	Ann Romano Character / Various	2 Episodes: A Hero Sits Next Door, The Son Also Draws
2000	Everybody Loves Raymond	Joanne "Cinnamon" Glotz	2 Episodes: Robert's Divorce, Meant to Be
	Bette	Dr. Bauer	1 Episode: Silent But Deadly
	Judging Amy	Jane Holcombe	1 Episode: Dog Days
2001	Futurama	Amazonian	1 Episode: Amazon Women in the Mood
2002	The Education of Max Bickford	Dr. Ingrid Chekhov	1 Episode: The Egg and I
2003	Star Trek: Enterprise	Tarah	1 Episode: Cease Fire
2005-14	How I Met Your Mother	Judy Eriksen	15 Episodes
2009	Eli Stone	Jesse Bates	2 Episodes: Mortal Combat, Sonoma
2011	Bones	Rosalind Bassa	1 Episodes: The Finder

Video Games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Code Blue	Chief of Staff Nan Fleming
2001	Emergency Room 3	Chief of Staff Nan Fleming

[ Source: Wikipedia ]