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Amanda McBroom (born 9 August 1947; age 76) is the actress who played Captain Phillipa Louvois in the Star Trek: The Next Generation second season episode "The Measure Of A Man".

She was born in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles as the daughter of actor Marden Andrew McBroom (aka David Bruce); she married actor George Ball in 1974.

McBroom previously had a recurring role as police officer Sandi Welles on the hit crime television series Hawaii Five-O. In her first episode, 1976's "Loose Ends Get Hit", one of her co-stars was fellow Next Generation guest actor Henry Darrow. She and Darrow would later appear together in an episode of Cover Up in 1984. McBroom also co-starred with Star Trek: Deep Space Nine actress Louise Fletcher on the short-lived series The Boys of Twilight.

A 1969 graduate of the University of Texas, McBroom's earliest known TV appearance was a September 1973 episode of Medical Center with William Windom and series regular Barbara Baldavin. The following month, she and Lenore Kasdorf appeared in the second episode of The Magician (American TV series)|The Magician}}. Her later TV credits include: Police Story (1974, with Barry Atwater, Kim Darby, and Phillip Pine; Gunsmoke (1974, with David Soul), Starsky and Hutch (1978, again with David Soul), Executive Suite (1976, with Sharon Acker, Richard Cox, Leigh J. McCloskey, Byron Morrow, Madlyn Rhue, Percy Rodriguez, Mitch Ryan, and Madge Sinclair; Charlie's Angels (1977); Taxi (1977, with Christopher Lloyd); Hart to Hart (1980); M*A*S*H (1981, with David Ogden Stiers); Remington Steele (1983); and Magnum, P.I. (1985, with Susan Oliver.

Besides acting, McBroom is also a songwriter. She wrote the title song for The Rose (1979), for which she won a Golden Globe for Best Original Song for a Motion Picture. [1] She has also written songs for The Land Before Time sequels.

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