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American actress (1932–2008)

Majel Barrett Roddenberry (/'//m//eɪ//dʒ//əl/; born Majel Leigh Hudec; February 23, 1932 – December 18, 2008) was an American actress. She was best known for her roles as various characters in the Star Trek franchise: Nurse Christine Chapel (in the original Star Trek series, Star Trek: The Animated Series, and two films of the franchise), Number One (also in the original series), Lwaxana Troi (on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), and the voice of most onboard computer interfaces throughout the series from 1966 to 2023. She married Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry in 1969. As his wife and given her relationship with Star Trekparticipating in some way in every series during her lifetimeshe is sometimes before going on to the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, then had some stage roles and came to Hollywood. Her father, William Hudec, was a Cleveland police officer. He was killed in the line of duty while operating a police ambulance which was struck by an Erie Passenger Train at East 91st Street and Loren Avenue on August 30, 1955. This tragedy occurred while Barrett was touring with an off Broadway road company.

Barrett was briefly seen in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957) in an ad parody at the beginning of the film, and had roles in a few films, including Love in a Goldfish Bowl (1961), Sylvia (1965), A Guide for the Married Man (1967), and Track of Thunder (1967). She worked at the Desilu Studios on several TV shows, including Bonanza, The Untouchables, The Lucy Show, and The Lieutenant (produced by Gene Roddenberry). She received training in comedy from Lucille Ball. In 1960, she played Gwen Rutherford on Leave It to Beaver.

She 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. She also 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. Her later film appearances included small roles in Teresa's Tattoo (1994) and Mommy (1995). After Gene Roddenberry's death, Barrett took material from his archives to bring two of his ideas into production. She was executive producer of Earth: Final Conflict (in which she also played the character Dr. Julianne Belman), and Andromeda. She also served as creative director for Gene Roddenberry's Lost Universe, a comic book series based on another archival Roddenberry concept. In a gesture of goodwill between the creators of the Star Trek franchise and of Babylon 5, she appeared in the Babylon 5 episode "Point of No Return", as Lady Morella, the psychic widow of the Centauri emperor, a role which foreshadowed major plot elements in the series. Parodying her voice work as the computer for the Star Trek series, Barrett performed as a guest voice on Family Guy as the voice of Stewie Griffin's ship's computer in the episode "Emission Impossible". 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 Barrett had no direct role in it.

Some of Barrett's final voiceover work was still in post production, to be released in 2009 after her death, as mentioned in the credits of the 2009 film Star Trek, again as the voice of the Enterprise computer. An animated production called Hamlet A. D. D. credited her as Majel Barrett Roddenberry, playing the voiceover role of Queen Robot.

In 1969, while scouting locations in Japan for MGM, Roddenberry realized that he missed Barrett, and proposed to her by telephone. Roddenberry had considered it "sacrilegious" to use an American minister in Japan,

The new marriage was not legally binding, as his divorce from Eileen had not yet been finalized. This was resolved two days after his divorce was complete, and on December 29, a small ceremony was held at their home, followed by a reception for family and friends. Despite this, the couple continued to celebrate August 6 as their wedding anniversary. Roddenberry's young daughter, Dawn, decided to live with Barrett and him, and the family moved to a new house in Beverly Hills the following October. In February 1974, Barrett and Roddenberry had a son, Eugene Jr., commonly referred to as Rod Roddenberry. They remained married until Roddenberry's death at Barrett's side on October 24, 1991, in Santa Monica, California. After her husband's death, Barrett Roddenberry commissioned Celestis to launch her together with Gene on an infinite mission to deepest space. After manifesting them on NASA's "Sunjammer" mission, the agency cancelled the mission in 2014. Celestis rescheduled their launch for 2020, then later rescheduled for June 2022, the next available commercial mission to deep space. A sample of the couple's cremated remains will be sealed into a specially made capsule designed to withstand space travel. A spacecraft will carry the capsule, along with digitized tributes from fans, on Celestis' "Enterprise Flight". The flight will also contain the ashes of Nichelle Nichols and Douglas Trumbull. Barrett Roddenberry died on the morning of December 18, 2008, at her home in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California, as a result of leukemia. She was 76 years old. A public funeral was held on January 4, 2009, in Los Angeles. More than 250 people attended, including Nichelle Nichols, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner and Wil Wheaton.

Barrett and her husband were honored in 2002 by the Space Foundation with the Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award for their work creating awareness of and enthusiasm for space. Amazon code named the project that eventually became Alexa as “Majel.”

Year Title RoleNotes 1957 Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Shampoo demonstrator Uncredited 1958 As Young as We Are Joyce Goodwin 1958 The Black Orchid Luisa Uncredited 1958 The Buccaneer Townswoman #1 1960 Leave it to Beaver Gwen Rutherford 1961 Love in a Goldfish Bowl Alice 1961 Back Street Woman at Table Uncredited 1963 The Quick and the Dead Teresa 1965 Sylvia Anne Uncredited 1966 Made in Paris Mrs. David Prentiss Uncredited 1967 A Guide for the Married Man Mrs. Fred V. 1967 Track of Thunder Georgia Clark 1968 Here Come the Brides Tessa 1973 Westworld Miss Carrie 1977 The Domino Principle Yuloff 1979 Star Trek: The Motion Picture Christine Chapel 1986 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Christine Chapel 1994 Teresa's Tattoo Henrietta 1994 Star Trek Generations Ship Computer Voice role 1995 Mommy Mrs. Withers 1996 Star Trek: First Contact Ship Computer Voice role 1998 Star Trek: Insurrection Ship Computer Voice role 2002 Star Trek: Nemesis Ship Computer Voice role 2009 Star Trek Ship Computer Voice role;Posthumous release 2014 Hamlet A. D. D. Queen Robot Voice role;Posthumous release

Year Title RoleNotes 1959 Whirlybirds Nurse Episode: "The Black Maria" 1960 Johnny Midnight Rosemary McCoy Episode: "The Villain of the Piece" 1961–1962 Pete and Gladys Dental Assistant 2 episodes 19621966 Bonanza Belle GantherAnnie Slocum Episode: Gift of WaterEpisode: Three Brides for Hoss 1964 The Lieutenant Ruth Donaldson Episode: "In the Highest Tradition" 1965 Star Trek "The Cage" Number One Original Star Trek Pilot 1966–1969 Star Trek Christine Chapel 25 episodes Ship Computer Voice role; 7 episodes, uncredited 1973 Genesis II Primus Dominique Television film 1973–1974 Star Trek: The Animated Series Christine Chapel (voice) 9 episodes Various characters (voice) 22 episodes 1974 Planet Earth Yuloff Television film 1974 The F. B. I. Mrs. Derek Episode: "The Animal" 1974 The Questor Tapes Dr. Bradley Television film 1977 Spectre Mrs. Schnaible Television film 1979 The Suicide's Wife Clarissa Harmon Television film 1979 The Man in the Santa Claus Suit Miss Forsyth Television film 1987–1993Star Trek: The Next Generation Lwaxana Troi 6 episodes 1987–1994 Ship Computer Voice role; 101 episodes, uncredited in early seasons, later credited. 1993–1999Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Ship/Federation Computer Voice role; 30 episodes Lwaxana Troi 3 episodes 1995–2001 Star Trek: Voyager Ship Computer Voice role; 115 episodes 1996 Babylon 5 Lady Morella Episode: "Point of No Return" 1996 1998 Spider Man: The Animated Series Anna Watson (voice) 17 episodes 1997–1999 Earth: Final Conflict Dr. Julianne Belman 11 episodes 2001 Family Guy Ship Computer (voice) Episode: "Emission Impossible" 2005 Star Trek: Enterprise Ship Computer (voice) Episode: "In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II & These Are The Voyages" 2023 Star Trek: Picard Enterprise Computer (voice) Episode: "Vox" & "Last Generation"; Posthumous release