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RIP Nurse Ogawa Patti Yasutake gone at 70
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Patti Yasutake, who portrayed Nurse Alyssa Ogawa on Star Trek Generations and a pair of franchise movies and Fumi Nakai, the widowed mother of Joseph Lee's sculptor, on Beef, has died. She was 70.
Yasutake died Monday at UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center after a long battle with a rare form of T-cell lymphoma, her longtime manager, Kyle Fritz, told The Hollywood Reporter.
"Patti was my first client when I began over 30 years ago," he said in a statement. "We enjoyed every day we got to work together, and I will miss her spirit talent and tenacity but most of all her friendship."
The Los Angeles native also played a relocated Japanese wife earnestly trying to Americanize in the Ron Howard-directed Gung Ho (1986) and on its ABC series adaptation that lasted just nine episodes in 1986-87.
She received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for her turn in The Wash (1988), and her big-screen résumé included Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992) and Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999) as well.
Yasutake played Starfleet officer Nurse Ogawa on 16 episodes of the syndicated Star Trek: The Next Generation from 1990-94 and reprised the role for Star Trek Generations (1994) and Star Trek: First Contact (1996).
Patti Yasutake, who portrayed Nurse Alyssa Ogawa on Star Trek Generations and a pair of franchise movies and Fumi Nakai, the widowed mother of Joseph Lee's sculptor, on Beef, has died. She was 70.
Yasutake died Monday at UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center after a long battle with a rare form of T-cell lymphoma, her longtime manager, Kyle Fritz, told The Hollywood Reporter.
"Patti was my first client when I began over 30 years ago," he said in a statement. "We enjoyed every day we got to work together, and I will miss her spirit talent and tenacity but most of all her friendship."
The Los Angeles native also played a relocated Japanese wife earnestly trying to Americanize in the Ron Howard-directed Gung Ho (1986) and on its ABC series adaptation that lasted just nine episodes in 1986-87.
She received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for her turn in The Wash (1988), and her big-screen résumé included Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992) and Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999) as well.
Yasutake played Starfleet officer Nurse Ogawa on 16 episodes of the syndicated Star Trek: The Next Generation from 1990-94 and reprised the role for Star Trek Generations (1994) and Star Trek: First Contact (1996).
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She was incredibly likeable.