Patti Yasutake

Patti Yasutake

Born: September 6, 1953
in Los Angeles, California, USA
Patti Yasutake (born September 6, 1953) is an American stage, film and television actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Nurse Alyssa Ogawa in the Star Trek franchise.

Her television acting career began in 1985 with an appearance on the show T.J. Hooker alongside William Shatner, Richard Herd, James Darren and Michelle Phillips. More recently, she appeared on Boston Legal alongside Trek alumni Shatner, René Auberjonois, Corbin Bernsen, Joanna Cassidy and Philip Weyland. She resides in Hollywood, California. She is married.

Movies for Patti Yasutake...

Title: BEEF
Character: Fumi Nakai
Released: April 6, 2023
Type: TV
A road rage incident between two strangers — a failing contractor and an unfulfilled entrepreneur — sparks a feud that brings out their darkest impulses.
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Title: FlashForward
Character: Mia Kondo
Released: September 24, 2009
Type: TV
When the entire world blacks out for two minutes and seventeen seconds, everyone sees a flash of their own future 6 months from the present. For some, the future is hopeful, while for others, it is unexpected. For a few, it doesn't seem to exist. Knowing their fate will alter each person's life, destinies will be changed.
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Title: Bones
Character: Federal Judge Lang (uncredited)
Released: September 13, 2005
Type: TV
Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.
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Title: The Closer
Character: Cathy Tao
Released: June 13, 2005
Type: TV
Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson transfers from Atlanta to LA to head up a special unit of the LAPD that handles sensitive, high-profile murder cases. Johnson's quirky personality and hard-nosed approach often rubs her colleagues the wrong way, but her reputation as one of the world's best interrogator eventually wins over even her toughest critics.
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The L.A. Riot Spectacular
Title: The L.A. Riot Spectacular
Released: April 25, 2005
Type: Movie
The controversial satire The LA Riot Spectacular plays for mordent laughs the events that consumed L.A. in 1992, after the police officers on trial for beating motorist Rodney King were found innocent. The city was engulfed by a massive riot, but the film plays these moments for laughs. In addition to recreating some of the images seen on television, the film skewers a variety of figures including the police, the media, and the citizens of the city.
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Title: Grey's Anatomy
Character: Elaine Verma
Released: March 27, 2005
Type: TV
Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle’s Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.
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Title: She Spies
Character: Min-Yung
Released: July 20, 2002
Type: TV
She Spies is an action-adventure television show that ran from September 9, 2002 until May 17, 2004, in two seasons. The show was sold into syndication but the first four episodes premiered on the NBC network, whose syndication arm was one of the producers. Disappointing ratings during the show's second season led to its cancellation after season two ended. She Spies bore noticeable production and directive similarities with Charlie's Angels.
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Title: Crossing Jordan
Character: Mrs. Mika Yamamoto
Released: September 24, 2001
Type: TV
Crossing Jordan is an American television crime/drama series that stars Jill Hennessy as Jordan Cavanaugh, M.D., a crime-solving forensic pathologist employed in the Massachusetts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
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X-Men: The Mutant Watch
Title: X-Men: The Mutant Watch
Character: Sen. Connie Kasamatsu
Released: July 2, 2000
Type: Movie
While Senator Kelly addresses a senate committee about the supposed mutant menace, we learn about the making of the movie, X-Men.
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Title: Judging Amy
Character: Delivery Room Doctor
Released: September 19, 1999
Type: TV
Judging Amy is an American television drama that was telecast from September 19, 1999, through May 3, 2005, on CBS-TV. This TV series starred Amy Brenneman and Tyne Daly. Its main character is a judge who serves in a family court, and in addition to the family-related cases that she adjudicates, many episodes of the show focus on her own experiences as a divorced mother, and on the experiences of her mother, a social worker who works in the field of child welfare. This series was based on the life experiences of Brenneman's mother.
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Incognito
Title: Incognito
Released: September 17, 1999
Type: Movie
A young socialite hires a bodyguard to protect her when an ex-convict begins stalking her.
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Drop Dead Gorgeous
Title: Drop Dead Gorgeous
Character: Mrs. Howard
Released: July 23, 1999
Type: Movie
In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gladys Leeman wants to make sure her daughter follows in her footsteps; explosions, falling lights, and trailer fires prove that. As the Leemans are the richest family in town, the police are pretty relaxed about it all. Despite everything, main rival (but sweet) Amber Atkins won't give up without a fight.
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A Face to Kill for
Title: A Face to Kill for
Character: D.A. Rowland
Released: April 13, 1999
Type: Movie
Accomplished horse trainer is deceived by her husband, unfairly sent to prison, and she re-makes herself and eventually gains revenge.
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Clockwatchers
Title: Clockwatchers
Character: Theater Woman (uncredited)
Released: June 12, 1997
Type: Movie
The relationship between four female temps all working for the same credit company is threatened with the arrival of a new hire, who lands a permanent position one of the women was vying for.
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Title: Crisis Center
Released: February 28, 1997
Type: TV
Crisis Center is an American drama television series that aired from February 28 until April 4, 1997.
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Star Trek: First Contact
Title: Star Trek: First Contact
Character: Nurse Ogawa
Released: November 22, 1996
Type: Movie
The Borg, a relentless race of cyborgs, are on a direct course for Earth. Violating orders to stay away from the battle, Captain Picard and the crew of the newly-commissioned USS Enterprise E pursue the Borg back in time to prevent the invaders from changing Federation history and assimilating the galaxy.
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Title: Dangerous Minds
Character: Jacqueline Demmler
Released: September 30, 1996
Type: TV
Dangerous Minds is an American drama television series that aired on ABC network between September 1996 and March 1997. The series is based on the motion picture film, Dangerous Minds. Annie Potts stars in the lead role originated by Michelle Pfeiffer.
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The Road to Galveston
Title: The Road to Galveston
Character: Nurse Dickerson
Released: January 24, 1996
Type: Movie
Jordan Roosevelt, at 65, found herself alone, destitute, and depressed. Up against the wall, she took heart from the suggestion of a friend, a blind woman who was a nurse: enter a foster care program in which one takes care of patients in their own home. The patients she cares for are Alzheimers sufferers, and she shares her home with three other women in advanced stages of the disease, one (Gayle) wheelchair bound. And with these women, Jordan realizes a lifelong dream - to feel the ocean breeze. An accidental find of a coffee can stash of cash, buried by her late husband, makes the trip possible. Based on the true story of Peggy Lee of Camilla, Texas (the Alzheimers, the patients, and the foster care program are actual, the trip to the Galveston beaches is fictional).
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Title: Murder One
Character: Reporter #1
Released: September 20, 1995
Type: TV
Theodore 'Teddy' Hoffman is a highly-regarded defense attorney in a prestigious Los Angeles law firm. Having successfully defended the wealthy but suspicious Richard Cross in a much-publicised murder trial, he is now involved in the defense of Neil Avedon, a famous young actor who has been suffering from severe drug and alcohol problems - and has been charged with the murder for which Cross was acquitted.
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Abandoned and Deceived
Title: Abandoned and Deceived
Released: March 20, 1995
Type: Movie
The film is the story of woman who is denied the pensions for her children by her ex-husband. Therefore she has to fight for her rights by appealing the courts of justice and the bureaucracy of the state.
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Dangerous Intentions
Title: Dangerous Intentions
Character: Lois
Released: January 3, 1995
Type: Movie
A man stalks his wife and child when they leave for an abused women's shelter.
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Star Trek: Generations
Title: Star Trek: Generations
Character: Nurse Ogawa
Released: November 18, 1994
Type: Movie
Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-D find themselves at odds with the renegade scientist Soran who is destroying entire star systems. Only one man can help Picard stop Soran's scheme...and he's been dead for seventy-eight years.
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Title: ER
Character: Kito
Released: September 19, 1994
Type: TV
ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.
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Star Trek: The Next Generation -  All Good Things...
Title: Star Trek: The Next Generation - All Good Things...
Character: Nurse Alyssa Ogawa
Released: May 23, 1994
Type: Movie
Picard finds himself traveling between the past, present, and future while attempting to prevent the destruction of humanity... by his own actions.
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Lush Life
Title: Lush Life
Character: Doctor
Released: October 1, 1993
Type: Movie
Jeff Goldblum and Forest Whitaker star as New York jazz musicians, forced to confront a life beyond their hedonistic existence when a personal crisis strikes.
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Donato and Daughter
Title: Donato and Daughter
Character: Dr. Stewart
Released: September 21, 1993
Type: Movie
Though emotionally estranged, a father and daughter team of Los Angeles police detectives must work together to stop a serial killer. Along the way, the two find themselves forced to deal with a number of painful secrets from their past.
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Title: Living Single
Character: Oki
Released: August 29, 1993
Type: TV
Living Single is an American television sitcom that aired for five seasons on the Fox network from August 22, 1993, to January 1, 1998. The show centered on the lives of six friends who share personal and professional experiences while living in a Brooklyn brownstone. Throughout its run, Living Single became one of the most popular African-American sitcoms of its era, ranking among the top five in African-American ratings in all five seasons. The series was produced by Yvette Lee Bowser's company, Sister Lee, in association with Warner Bros. Television. In contrast to the popularity of NBC's "Must See TV" on Thursday nights in the 1990s, many African American and Latino viewers flocked to Fox's Thursday night line-up of Martin, Living Single, and New York Undercover. In fact, these were the three highest-rated series among black households for the 1996–1997 season.
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Blind Spot
Title: Blind Spot
Character: Dr. Charbonneau
Released: May 2, 1993
Type: Movie
Tragedy befalls Congresswoman Nell Harrington and her family when her son-in-law dies in a car accident, and Harrington's pregnant daughter, Phoebe, is propelled into a downward spiral. Things gets worse when Harrington learns that her son-in-law was on cocaine at the time of the accident, and her daughter was using right along with him. What does this mean for Harrington's impending Senate campaign -- and the health of Phoebe's unborn child?
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Title: Rhythm & Blues
Character: Wendy
Released: September 24, 1992
Type: TV
Rhythm & Blues is a short-lived 1992 American sitcom that aired on NBC for only five weeks from September 24, 1992 to October 22, 1992 with an additional left over episode airing on February 19, 1993. The show stars Roger Kabler, Anna Maria Horsford, Ron Glass, Troy Curvey Jr., Vanessa Bell Calloway, Miguel A. Nunez, Jr., and Christopher Babers. The premise of the show stars Kabler as Bobby Soul, a white man who gets hired on a black radio station after being initially mistaken as a black man. Despite being listed among NBC's Must See TV Thursday night lineup after A Different World at 8:00 and before Cheers at 9:00, the show was cancelled after only five weeks due to low ratings. The show was heavily criticized for relying on traditional black stereotypes for its humor. TV Guide said that: "What makes a show built on white jokes any better than a show built on black jokes?"
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Title: Picket Fences
Character: Nurse
Released: September 18, 1992
Type: TV
Picket Fences is an American television drama about the residents of the town of Rome
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Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
Title: Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
Character: TV Newscaster
Released: February 21, 1992
Type: Movie
A tough police sergeant's mother comes to visit him, and promptly starts trying to fix up his life, much to his embarrassment. For his birthday she buys him a machine gun out of the back of a van, and begins to further interfere with his job and love life, eventually helping him with a case he's on.
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Fatal Friendship
Title: Fatal Friendship
Character: Ling Landrum
Released: December 1, 1991
Type: Movie
A man begins suspecting that his best friend may be involved in an international crime ring.
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Without Warning: The James Brady Story
Title: Without Warning: The James Brady Story
Character: Therapist
Released: June 16, 1991
Type: Movie
The story of Ronald Reagan's press secretary who was crippled in the 1981 assassination attempt on the president and who, with his wife, became the lightning rod for the gun control movement in the years since.
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Title: Sons and Daughters
Character: Lillian Park
Released: January 4, 1991
Type: TV
An American comedy-drama television series.
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Title: Tales from the Crypt
Character: Newscaster #2
Released: June 10, 1989
Type: TV
Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?
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Title: Murphy Brown
Character: Secretary #41
Released: November 14, 1988
Type: TV
Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen) is a recovering alcoholic who returns to the fictional newsmagazine FYI for the first time following a stay at the Betty Ford Clinic residential treatment center. Over 40 and single, she is sharp tongued and hard as nails. In her profession, she is considered one of the boys, having shattered many glass ceilings encountered during her career. Dominating the FYI news magazine, she is portrayed as one of America's hardest-hitting (though not the warmest or more sympathetic) media personalities.
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The Wash
Title: The Wash
Character: Marsha
Released: August 17, 1988
Type: Movie
Mako is a neglectful husband. Not the most loving man. His wife gradually encounters a widower who is a kind, gentle figure. She eventually makes the transition to leave her husband and go to this fellow.
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Title: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Character: Nurse Alyssa Ogawa
Released: September 28, 1987
Type: TV
Follow the intergalactic adventures of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and his loyal crew aboard the all-new USS Enterprise NCC-1701D, as they explore new worlds.
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Title: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Character: Nurse Alyssa Ogawa / Doctor Alyssa Ogawa
Released: September 28, 1987
Type: TV
Follow the intergalactic adventures of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and his loyal crew aboard the all-new USS Enterprise NCC-1701D, as they explore new worlds.
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Title: CBS Summer Playhouse
Character: Shirley Kajimoto
Released: June 12, 1987
Type: TV
CBS anthology series airing unsold television pilots during the summer season.
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Title: Duet
Character: Miss Shimokawa
Released: April 19, 1987
Type: TV
Duet is an American sitcom that aired on Fox from April 19, 1987 to August 20, 1989. The series stars Matthew Laurance as Ben Coleman, Mary Page Keller as Laura Kelly, Chris Lemmon as Richard Phillips, and Alison LaPlaca as Linda Phillips. The series was created by Ruth Bennett and Susan Seeger, and was produced by Paramount Television.
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Title: Take Five
Released: April 1, 1987
Type: TV
Take Five is an American sitcom that aired from April 1 until April 8, 1987.
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Title: Gung Ho
Character: Umeki Kazuhiro
Released: December 5, 1986
Type: TV
Short-lived sitcom based on the critically acclaimed movie. Hunt Stevenson is the laid-back American employee liaison of a Japanese car company in Hadleyville, Pennsylvania. Clashes abound as Hunt and Kaz looked for ways to bridge the gap between one another with funny results. Many of the Japanese actors from the movie reprised their roles for the series.
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Gung Ho
Title: Gung Ho
Character: Umeki Kazihiro
Released: March 14, 1986
Type: Movie
When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt Stevenson faces the tricky challenge of mediating the assimilation of two clashing corporate cultures. At one end is the Japanese plant manager and the sycophant who is angling for his position. At the other, a number of disgruntled long-time union members struggle with the new exigencies of Japanese quality control.
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Tales of Meeting and Parting
Title: Tales of Meeting and Parting
Released: October 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Tales of Meeting and Parting is a 1985 English language short film directed by Lesli Linka Glatter, starring Jeanne Sakata, Patricia Ayame Thomson and Patti Yasutake. An elderly Japanese man recalls his experiences as a young interpreter during a particularly brutal prisoner-of-war interrogation. The kindness he showed was unexpectedly returned following the war when he was being held captive by the Allies. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
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Title: Hail to the Chief
Character: Sportswriter #3
Released: April 9, 1985
Type: TV
Hail to the Chief is an American sitcom that ran on ABC from April 9, 1985 until May 21, 1985. It centered on the first woman President of the United States, portrayed by Academy Award-winning actress Patty Duke. The series was created by Susan Harris, and was produced by Witt/Thomas/Harris Productions. It featured one of the few recurring gay characters in a 1980s television series.
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Title: Mr. Belvedere
Character: Tami
Released: March 15, 1985
Type: TV
Mr. Belvedere takes a job as a housekeeper with an American family headed by George Owens.
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Title: Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Character: Field Reporter
Released: October 3, 1983
Type: TV
Scarecrow and Mrs. King is an American television series that aired from October 3, 1983, to May 28, 1987 on CBS. The show stars Kate Jackson and Bruce Boxleitner as divorced housewife Amanda King and top-level "Agency" operative Lee Stetson who begin a strange association, and eventual romance, after encountering one another in a train station.
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Title: Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Character: Teldar Employee
Released: October 3, 1983
Type: TV
Scarecrow and Mrs. King is an American television series that aired from October 3, 1983, to May 28, 1987 on CBS. The show stars Kate Jackson and Bruce Boxleitner as divorced housewife Amanda King and top-level "Agency" operative Lee Stetson who begin a strange association, and eventual romance, after encountering one another in a train station.
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Title: T. J. Hooker
Character: Suzie
Released: March 13, 1982
Type: TV
Sergeant Thomas Jefferson Hooker is a tough-as-nails veteran police officer with the LCPD who turns his back on a gold badge and goes back to patrolling the streets and training recuits. Along with his young partners in blue, Hooker take on Lake City's toughest criminals.
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Title: Knots Landing
Character: Nurse
Released: December 27, 1979
Type: TV
The domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a cul-de-sac in a small California community.