Lycia Naff | |
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Born | Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. | August 29, 1962
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Years active | 1982–present |
Television | Star Trek: The Next Generation |
Lycia Naff (born August 29, 1962) is an American dancer, actress, and journalist. She is best known as an actress for a two-episode role as Ensign Sonya Gomez on Star Trek: The Next Generation and for an appearance as a three-breasted prostitute in Total Recall . Her journalism career includes early work on the Bill Cosby sexual assault cases story in 2014 with her interview of actress and rape survivor Barbara Bowman. [1] [2]
Her acting career began as a dancer in the 1982 television series Fame . She appeared as Dixie, a prostitute in the 1987 film Lethal Weapon and as TC in Troma's 1989 Chopper Chicks in Zombietown . [1] In 1989 she appeared as Ensign Sonya Gomez on two episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1989, a role she would return to in 2021 to voice Captain Sonya Gomez on the animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks . [1] [3]
Her small role as Mary, a triple-breasted mutant prostitute in Paul Verhoeven's 1990 motion picture Total Recall gained her immediate fame and interview requests from even Johnny Carson to appear on his show, all of which she turned down, only to later regret having done so. [4] [5] After Total Recall she earned a Daytime Emmy nomination for her part in the 1990 ABC Afterschool Special The Perfect Date. [4]
In 2007 she guest starred in Without A Trace . She also appeared in recurring episodes of St. Elsewhere , Hunter , General Hospital and The Young and the Restless . [6] [7]
As her acting career took a downturn in the mid 1990s, she went to study journalism at Florida Atlantic University, graduating from then Palm Beach Atlantic College. She has since worked as a reporter for publications like The Palm Beach Post, Sun Sentinel, The Miami Herald and People. [8] [4]
Naff interviewed the first of Bill Cosby's rape victims and survivors, actress Barbara Bowman in 2014. [1] [2]
Year | Title | Episode | Role | Notes |
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1982 | Fame – "Metamorphosis" | Season 1, Episode 1 | Moira | Guest Star |
1983 | The Jeffersons – "I Do, I Don't" | Season 10, Episode 4 | Donna | Guest Star |
1984 | Masquerade – "Five Days" | Season 1, Episode 6 | Guest Star | |
1985 | St. Elsewhere – "Saving Face" | Season 3, Episode 16 | Maddy | Guest Star |
1985 | St. Elsewhere – "Give the Boy a Hand" | Season 3, Episode 17 | Maddy | Guest Star |
1985 | St. Elsewhere – "Any Portrait in a Storm" | Season 3, Episode 18 | Maddy | Guest Star |
1985 | Hunter – "The Snow Queen: Part 1" | Season 1, Episode 13 | Sally LaPone | Guest Star |
1985 | Hunter – "The Snow Queen: Part 2" | Season 1, Episode 14 | Sally LaPone | Guest Star |
1985 | Hardcastle and McCormick – "Mirage a Trois" | Season 3, Episode 10 | Ali Casir | Guest Star |
1985 | Hell Town – "A Wedding in Hell Town" (a.k.a. "A Simple Wedding") [9] | Season 1, Episode 12 | Kate | Guest Star |
1986 | Fame – "Judgement Day" | Season 3, Episode 13 | Susan | Guest Star |
1987 | Max Headroom – "The Blanks" | Season 1, Episode 6 | Jaxy | Guest Star |
1988 | The Equalizer – "The Child Broker" | Season 6, Episode 4 | Amy | Guest Star |
1988 | Duet – "Baby Talk" | Season 2, Episode 14 | Natalie | Guest Star |
1989 | Hard Time on Planet Earth – "Battle of the Sexes" | Season 1, Episode 6 | Connie Russo | Guest Star |
1989 | Star Trek: The Next Generation – "Q Who" | Season 2, Episode 16 | Ensign Sonya Gomez | Guest Star |
1989 | Star Trek: The Next Generation – "Samaritan Snare" | Season 2, Episode 17 | Ensign Sonya Gomez | Guest Star |
1989 | General Hospital'" | Phoebe Dawson | ||
1990 | Baywatch (1989–1999) – "Home Cort" | Season 1, Episode 13 | Wanda | Guest Star |
1990 | The Flash – "Pilot" | Season 1, Episode 1 | Lila | Guest Star |
1990 | ABC Afterschool Special – "The Perfect Date" | Season 18, Episode 6 | Bernice Sherman | Lead actress |
1991 | Father Dowling Mysteries – "The Missing Witness Mystery" | Season 3, Episode 13 | Michele | Guest Star |
1991 | Shades of L.A. – "Cross the Center Line' [10] | Season 1, Episode 15 | Cherry | Guest Star |
1991 | Law & Order – "Asylum" | Season 2, Episode 4 | Mimi Sternhagen | Guest Star |
2007 | Without a Trace – "Connections" | Season 5, Episode 18 | Lynn Neyer | Guest Star |
2008 | Denise Richards: It's Complicated – "Denise vs. Tabloids" | Season 1, Episode 2 | Herself | |
2008 | Redemption Song | Season 1 | Herself | |
2008 | Ghost Whisperer – "Pieces of You" | Season 4, Episode 9 | Butcher | Guest Star |
2021 | Star Trek: Lower Decks – "First First Contact" | Season 2, Episode 10 | Captain Sonya Gomez | Guest Star |
Year | Title | Type | Genre | Role | Notes |
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1985 | Heart of a Champion: The Ray Mancini Story [11] | television film | Biography | Cynthia | Supporting |
1985 | Love, Mary | television film | Drama | Delia | Supporting |
1985 | Final Jeopardy [12] | television film | Thriller | Vickie | Supporting |
1986 | The Clan of the Cave Bear | Film | Fantasy, Adventure | Uba | Supporting |
1987 | Lethal Weapon | Film | Action, Crime | Dixie | Supporting |
1990 | Return to Green Acres | television film | Comedy | B.B. | Supporting |
1990 | Total Recall | Film | Action, Adventure, Science fiction, Thriller | Mary | Supporting |
1990 | The Flash | television film, Pilot | Fantasy, Science fiction, Thriller, Action | Lila | Supporting |
1991 | Chopper Chicks in Zombietown | Film | Horror, Comedy | T.C. | Supporting |
1995 | Cop Files[ citation needed ] | TV Special | Crime | Supporting [13] |
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I'm still an active undercover investigative reporter; however, I surfaced with my byline when I exclusively broke the Bill Cosby rape scandal in 2014.
So last month, when reporter Lycia Naff contacted me for an interview for the Daily Mail, I gave her a detailed account.