| Farrah Forke | |
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Born: |
Farrah Rachel Forke |
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Date of Birth: |
Janurary 12, 1968 |
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Place of Birth: |
Corpus Christi Texas |
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Occupation: |
Television and Film Actor |
Farrah Forke, sometimes credited as Farrah R. Forke, is an American actress known for her role as Alex Lambert on the NBC sitcom "Wings," and Mayson Drake on "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman." She also voices the character Big Barda on the animated television series "Batman Beyond" and "Justice League Unlimited."
Forke attended The Hockaday School, an all-girls private school in Dallas. She also spent a year at North Side Middle School while living in Elkhart, Indiana.
She entered acting with a role in a Texas production of the musical, "The Rocky Horror Show." After moving to New York City and studying acting at the Lee Strasberg Institute, she made her feature debut in the 1991 film "Brain Twisters." Other roles would include the movies "Whispers in the Dark," "Heat" (1995) and "Kate's Addiction" (1998) in which she and actress Kari Wuhrer play woman in a lesbian love affair, and the TV-movies "Journey to the Center of the Earth" (1993), "Complex of Fear" (1993), "Bionic Ever After?" (1994) and "Abandoned and Deceived" (1995).
She became best known as Alex Lambert, a former U.S. Army Apache helicopter pilot during Operation Desert Storm who afterward ran a Nantucket Island helicopter service for two seasons on the NBC sitcom Wings. The part was a recurring role during the 1992-93 season, but she became a regular cast role the following year.
After "Wings," Forke played Carey, an office manager for a computer software company in the 1995 CBS sitcom, "Dweebs" (1995), and from 1996 to 1997, a prep school teacher in NBC's "Mr. Rhodes." She was also reunited with fellow "Wings" co-star Thomas Haden Church on his sitcom, "Ned and Stacey," playing a very vivacious and attractive woman named Meghan.