Patti Yasutake, Actress on ‘Star Trek Generations’ and ‘Beef,’ Dies at 70

Patti Yasutake, who played Nurse Alyssa Ogawa on Star Trek Generations and two franchise films, and Fumi Nakai, Joseph Lee's sculptor's widowed mother on Beef, have both passed away. 70 years old.

According to Kyle Fritz, Yasutake's longtime manager, Yasutake passed away on Monday at UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center after a prolonged battle with a rare form of T-cell lymphoma.

"Patti was my most memorable client when I started a while back," he said in a proclamation. " We partook in each day we got to cooperate, and I will miss her soul ability and relentlessness however most her companionship."

In the 1986 film Gung Ho, directed by Ron Howard, and on its ABC series adaptation, which aired just nine episodes between 1986 and 1987, the Los Angeles native also played a relocated Japanese wife who was sincerely trying to become an American.

She got an Autonomous Soul Grant designation for her chance in The Washing machine (1988), and her big-screen list of qualifications included Stop! Or on the other hand My Mother Will Shoot (1992) and Stunning (1999) too.

On 16 of the syndicated episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Yasutake portrayed Starfleet officer Nurse Ogawa. The Next Generation from 1990 to 1994, and she played the role again in Star Trek Generations (1994) and Star Trek: The Next Generation. First Contact (1996).

She played the fierce mother-in-law of Amy Lau, played by Ali Wong, in seven episodes of the Netflix sensation Beef last year.

Brought into the world on Sept. 6, 1953, Yasutake was brought up in Gardena and Inglewood. She moved on from UCLA with a degree in venue and afterward started her profession with the theater organization East West Players, where she worked with the Oscar-designated entertainer Mako — later her co-star in The Washing machine — for a very long time.

Yasutake remounted Tea for the Odyssey Theatre and developed and staged world premieres for East West Players (Doughball), Richmond Shepherd Theater (The Single Man), and Ensemble Studio Theater (Father, I Must Have Rice).

She likewise coordinated studio introductions at the Imprint Tighten Discussion, Arizona Theater Organization, Los Angeles Theater Center and Geffen Playhouse.

Linda and Steven, her siblings, are among the survivors.

East West Players will hold a memorial service. The theater company welcomes gifts in her memory.