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Leslie Hope (born 6 May 1965; age 58) is a Canadian actress and director who played Kira Meru in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine sixth season episode "Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night". She also directed the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds first season episode "Ghosts of Illyria".

Along with Andrew Robinson, Larry Dobkin, Richard Compton, Rainn Wilson, and Lea Thompson, she is one of the six non-series regulars who both appeared in and directed Star Trek.

A native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and a 1982 graduate of St. Michael's University School in Victoria, British Columbia, she is most recognized for playing Jack Bauer's wife, Teri, in the first season of 24. In 2003, Hope and her 24 castmates – including Jude Ciccolella, Michelle Forbes, and Penny Johnson – were nominated as Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.

Hope was initially aiming to become a lawyer, but turned to acting while attending school in Victoria. When her school was used as a filming location for a comedy called Ups & Downs, Hope won a part in the film. A crew member on the show introduced Hope to Academy Award-nominated filmmaker John Cassavettes, who later cast Hope in Love Streams (1984). Star Trek: The Next Generation guest actor Seymour Cassel was one of the stars of this film.

Later that year, Hope became a regular on NBC's Berrenger's, which aired in early 1985. Although this series was pulled after only eleven episodes, Hope soon won a recurring role as Linda Martin on CBS' Knots Landing. In 1988, she appeared in the Emmy Award-winning mini-series War and Remembrance, which also featured fellow Star Trek alumni Ian Abercrombie, Granville Ames, Steven Berkoff, Peter Dennis, Lawrence Dobkin, Walker Edmiston, Bruce French, Grainger Hines, Paul Lambert, Richard Lineback, Byron Morrow, Glenn Morshower, George Murdock, Charles Napier, John Rhys-Davies, and William Schallert.

Hope's other TV credits include one-time appearances on Hunter (1987, with Bruce Davison and Franc Luz), seaQuest DSV (1994, with Rosalind Allen and Marco Sanchez), Party of Five (1994, with Scott Grimes), Vengeance Unlimited (1999, with James Avery, Jennifer Hetrick, Ken Jenkins, Clyde Kusatsu, Raphael Sbarge, and Michael Buchman Silver), Judging Amy (2000, with Brad Blaisdell and Charles Emmett), and the first episode of UPN's Level 9 (2000, with Willie Garson and J. Patrick McCormack). More recent guest spots include episodes of House (starring Jennifer Morrison), Eyes (with Gregg Henry and Rick Worthy), and CSI: Miami (playing the mother of Michael Welch).

In addition, Hope appeared in two episodes of Chicago Hope (including a 1999 episode with Ellen Bry, Boris Krutonog, and Gail Strickland) and in a two-parter on CBS' The District (with Jonathan Banks, Roger Aaron Brown, Cliff DeYoung, and Richard Fancy). She was also a regular on the short-lived RoboCop series, Prime Directives, which aired in January 2001. She later starred in the 2003-04 series Line of Fire and had a recurring role on Everwood in 2006, working with Stephanie Niznik. She also recurred on the series Commander in Chief as Attorney General Melanie Blackston, co-starring Ronny Cox, Elizabeth Dennehy, Eric Pierpoint, and Tony Plana. Most recently, she starred in the short-lived CW drama Runaway, and had a recurring role as Kristina Frye on The Mentalist.

Hope has starred in a number of television projects for the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Company), including Human Cargo (2004). More recently, she co-starred with James T. Kirk actor William Shatner in the CBC mini-series Everest, which premiered in 2008.

Aside from her many television projects, Hope has starred in several feature films. Some of her more notable film work include It Takes Two (1988, co-starring Bill Bolender), Talk Radio (1988, with Zach Grenier), Men at Work (1990, with Geoffrey Blake and John Putch), Doppelganger (1993, co-starring Dennis Christopher, Sally Kellerman, Scott Lawrence, Dan Shor, and Sean Whalen), and Sweet Killing (co-starring F. Murray Abraham). She also played the lead role in Paris, France (1993).

Hope co-starred with John de Lancie, John Glover, and George D. Wallace in the direct-to-video thriller Schemes. Her more recent film credits include Shadow Builder (1998, with Tony Todd), 1999's Water Damage (with John Neville and Dean Stockwell), Bruiser (2000, with Peter Mensah), Dragonfly (2002, co-starring Casey Biggs and Susanna Thompson), Never Back Down (2008), and Formosa Betrayed (2009, with Tzi Ma).

Hope recently guest starred in The Strain and appeared in Crimson Peak. She appeared in a season nine episode of "Murdoch Mysteries" (as did William Shatner, though not the same episode). She also plays SECNAV Sarah Porter on NCIS and NCIS: New Orleans. Hope also directed three episodes from the second and third seasons of Netflix's Lost in Space.

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