Chase Masterson

Biography

Chase Masterson (born February 26, 1963 in Colorado Springs, Colorado) is perhaps best known as sexy casino girl "Leeta" on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993) and "Ivy Lief" on General Hospital (1963), as well as being the featured guest star in the first Emmy Award-winning episode of ER (1994). Masterson was named one of the "Hot Leading Ladies" of Film in 2008 by "Film Fetish", one of the world's "50 Sexiest Women" by "Femme Fatales Magazine", the "#1 Favorite Science Fiction Actress on Television" in a "TV Guide" online readers poll, and one of the "Top 20 People to Watch in Hollywood" by "Sci-Fi Universe Magazine". She was also named "Best Feature Film Producer" by the LA Femme Film Festival for her work on Yesterday Was a Lie (2008). Masterson got her start as a child actress, singer, and dancer in Texas. After several theatre and film roles in her youth and teen years, she got her first big break in lead roles in the low budget thrillers In a Moment of Passion (1993) and Married People, Single Sex (1994) as well as Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) (in which she played Richard Lewis' girlfriend). Masterson originally auditioned for the one-time guest role of Jake Sisko's girlfriend "Mardah" in a 1994 episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993), but was told that she was a bit too old to be romantically involved with the teenage Jake character. Director Avery Brooks has subsequently indicated at Trek conventions that he held off casting her because he "didn't want [his] character's son to be with someone so sexy", and that he hoped she would be brought on as a regular cast member (perhaps as a love interest for himself). The role of "Leeta" was then written for her (although she was apparently still required to audition for it), and she remained in the role for…