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Michèle Marsh (born 20 December 1946; age 77) is the actress who played Leda in the Star Trek: The Next Generation first season episode "When The Bough Breaks".

She was born in France as Michèle Noelle Buhler, the daughter of Swiss composer Philippe Henri Buhler and moved to the United States with her family when she was three years old. She grew up in California and performed as a child actress in the musical The King and I at the Wharf Theatre Company in the Monterey. After earning her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, she joined the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.

Her most famous role was Hodel, the second daughter of Tevye in the 1971 musical Fiddler on the Roof, which was also her screen debut.

Marsh spent most of her career in television, appearing in guest roles on several series, including Mannix (with Harry Townes and Robert Bralver, directed by Reza Badiyi), Love, American Style (with John Wheeler, William Windom, William O'Connell, and Celeste Yarnall), Gunsmoke (with David Soul, Bobby Clark, and Fred Carson), Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (with Felix Silla and Walker Edmiston), Little House on the Prairie, Quincy, M.E. (with Garry Walberg, Robert Ito, Joseph Campanella, Clyde Kusatsu, Tony Dow, and Paul Lambert), The West Wing, Diagnosis: Murder (directed by Terrence O'Hara), Desperate Housewives (starring Teri Hatcher, with Brenda Strong, Bill Smitrovich, and Gary Cole), Medium (starring Jake Weber), Prison Break (with Robert Knepper, Raphael Sbarge, and Barbara Eve Harris), and House.

She also appeared in a number of television movies, including Last of the Mohicans (1977, with Ned Romero, Andrew Prine, and Whit Bissell, directed by James L. Conway), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1981, with Brock Peters and Bill Zuckert), and Raven Hawk (1996, with Ed Lauter, Mitchell Ryan, John de Lancie, and John Fleck).

Her few feature films credits besides Fiddler on the Roof include Tough Guys (1986, with Graham Jarvis, Hilary Shepard Turner, and Arthur Tovey), Evil Town (1987, with Robert Walker and Richard Hale), and My Name Is Khan (2010).

She has also been active in West Coast theatre and retired from screen acting in 2012 to pursue her stage career in full time. She currently performs with the Idyllwild Actors Theatre in Idyllwild, California.

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