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Patti Yasutake Dies: ‘Beef’ & ‘Star Trek’ Actress Was 70
Patti Yasutake, who was a serier regular on Netflix's Beef and played Nurse Alyssa Ogawa in the Star Trek universe, died after a battle with cancer.
She started her career at East West Players, where she worked with the company’s co-founder, Japanese-American acting icon Mako for six years onstage, on staff and on the board, performing in over a dozen shows. Yasutake made her major feature debut in Ron Howard’s 1986 comedy Gung Go as Umeki, a relocated Japanese wife earnestly trying to Americanize. Her resume also includes the films Drop Dead Gorgeous, Blind Spot and Road to Galveston and a slew of guest starring appearances on such series as The Closer, Grey’s Anatomy, Bones, Flash Forward, The Unit and Cold Case.
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