Series: TNG, DS9

Character(s): Keiko O’Brien

Rosalind Chao played the role of Keiko O’Brie in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Wife of Miles O’Brien played by Colm Meaney. Chao appeared in eight episodes of Next Generation and nineteen episodes of Deep Space Nine.

Chao has remained friends with Colm Meaney and attended his wedding in Beverly Hills on March 15, 2007. At Grand Slam XV, Meaney said “It was lovely having my TV wife at my wedding”.

In 2010, a preliminary casting memo for The Next Generation from 1987 was published, revealing that Chao was originally considered for the part of Enterprise security chief Tasha Yar.

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