Farrah Forke

Farrah Forke

Farrah Forke, sometimes credited as Farrah R. Forke (born January 12 1968 in Corpus Christi, Texas), is an American actress known for her role as "Alex Lambert" on the NBC sitcom "Wings", and "Mayson Drake" on "". She also voices the character Big Barda on the animated television series "Batman Beyond" and "Justice League Unlimited".

Forke worked as a model prior to acting.Fact|date=August 2008

Biography

Forke attended The Hockaday School, an all-girls private school in Dallas. She also spent a year at North Side Middle School while living in Elkhart, Indiana. [cite news | url = http://www.etruth.com/news/NewsStory.aspx?id=217374 | title = Actress keeping busy, enjoying life in New Mexico | publisher = "Elkhart Truth" | date = 2003-04-21 | accessdate = 2007-05-01 dead link]

She entered acting with a role in a Texas production of the musical "The Rocky Horror Show". [http://www.screenrush.co.uk/personne/fichepersonne_gen_cpersonne=127894.html ScreenRush: Farrah Forke] ] After moving to New York City and studing acting at the Lee Strasberg Institute, she made her feature debut in the 1991 film "Brain Twisters" (1991). Other roles would include the movies "Whispers in the Dark", "Heat" (1995), and "Kate's Addiction" (1998), in which she and actress Kari Wuhrer play woman in a lesbian love affair, and the TV-movies "Journey to the Center of the Earth" (NBC, 1993); "Complex of Fear" (CBS, 1993); "Bionic Ever After?" (CBS, 1994), a Bionic Woman movie; and "Abandoned and Deceived" (ABC, 1995).

She became best known as Alex Lambert, a former U.S. Army Apache helicopter pilot during Operation Desert Storm who afterward ran a Nantucket Island helicopter service for two seasons on the NBC sitcom "Wings". The part was a recurring role during the 1992-93 season, and a regular cast role the following year.

After "Wings", Forke played Carey, an office manager for a computer software company, in the 1995 CBS sitcom "Dweebs" (1995), and then, from 1996 to 1997, a prep school teacher in NBC's "Mr. Rhodes" .

Footnotes

References

* [http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/participant/participant.jsp?spid=64042&apid=0 Turner Classic Movies: Farrah Forke]

External links

*imdb name|id=0286294|name=Farrah Forke


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