Connie Danese
Connie Danese (born 2 December 1949; age 75) is the actress who portrayed Toya in the Star Trek: The Next Generation first season episode "When The Bough Breaks".
Danese started her acting career in the early 1980s with appearances in the 1982 biopic Groucho in which she portrayed Margaret Dumond/ Thelma Todd and in the 1982 It's A Living episode "Falling in Love Again" on which she worked with Earl Boen and Alan Oppenheimer. The following years she appeared in episodes of The Facts of Life (1985), George Burns Comedy Week (1985, starring George Burns, with David L. Lander, Paul Willson, and Kat Sawyer-Young), and Who's the Boss? (1987), the television drama Between the Darkness and the Dawn (1985, with Robin Gammell), Hunter's Blood (1986), Fresno (1986, with Terri Garr, Henry Darrow, Jack Kehler, Raye Birk, George D. Wallace, Dakin Matthews).
Following her work on Star Trek, Danese had supporting roles in Society (1989, with Charles Lucia and Ben Slack), Younger and Younger (1993, with Sally Kellerman), and Meet Wally Sparks (1997, with David Ogden Stiers). Danese also guest starred in episodes of Murder, She Wrote (1990, with Kevin Tighe and Vinny Argiro), Columbo (1990, with Ben Slack and Peter Falk), Adam-12 (1990, starring Peter Parros, with Terry Correll, Jeff Austin, Don Pike, and Meg Wyllie), Pacific Palisades (1997, with Joan Collins, Daphne Ashbrook, and Kris Iyer), and ER (1997, starring Eriq La Salle, with Leland Crooke).
Additional credited work was a featured part in King Cobra (1999, with Joseph Ruskin) and guest roles in episodes of Diagnosis: Murder (2001, with Eric Pierpoint and Earl Maddox) and NYPD Blue (2001, with Gordon Clapp, Juliana Donald, James G. MacDonald, and Faran Tahir).
In 2016 she co-starred in Neron. In 2017 she was flown to Tel Aviv to Guest Star in A Very Important Person .
Theatre credits include: Lily St Regis in Annie – National Co, Fanny Brice in Funny Girl (Las Vegas) receiving an AGVA nomination as most promising newcomer, Amazon Mom in Tanzi at the Roxy in L.A., Adelaide in Guys and Dolls with Jack Jones.
Prior to her acting career, Danese worked as columnist on New York's Backstage newspaper, which she left when she moved to Los Angeles to become an actress. Her column "Connie Chats" then appeared in Show Biz West magazine and later in Drama-Logue magazine. Following a break of writing during active acting years, Danese wrote articles and interviews for the LA Stage Times and worked as a Residential Real Estate Agent for Coldwell Banker in Beverly Hills. Today, she no longer works as a realtor and has returned to acting using her birth name, Concetta D'Agnese.