# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gates-mcfadden
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:43:29.640Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gates-mcfadden"
name: "Gates McFadden"
slug: "gates-mcfadden"
description: "Cheryl Gates McFadden is an American actress and choreographer. She is usually credited as Cheryl McFadden when working as a choreographer and Gates McFadden when working as an actress. She played Dr. Beverly Crusher in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, its four subsequent films, the sequel series Star Trek: Picard, and Star Trek: Prodigy."
tagline: "American actress and choreographer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gates_McFadden_2025.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1949-03-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  80
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump