Chase Masterson
{{Short description|American actress and singer (born 1963)}}
{{Use American English|date=July 2020}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Chase Masterson
| image = Chase Masterson.jpg
| caption = Chase Masterson {{circa}} 2012
| birth_name = Christianne Carafano
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1963|2|26}}
| birth_place = Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.
| alma_mater = University of Texas at Austin (BFA)
| known_for = {{hlist|Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Yesterday Was a Lie|Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles}}
| occupation = {{hlist|Actress|singer}}
| module = {{Infobox musical artist
| embed = yes
| instrument = Vocals
| years_active = 1983–present
| label = La-La Land, Helicon Arts Cooperative
}}}}
Chase Masterson (born Christianne Carafano on February 26, 1963){{cite web|url=https://www.startrek.com/article/ds9-things-you-should-know-about-chase-masterson|title=DS9 Things You Should Know About Chase Masterson:Age|access-date=2019-04-28}} is an American actress, singer and producer[https://www.fandango.com/people/chase-masterson-435837/film-credits "Chase Masterson Filmography"]. Fandango. Retrieved September 27, 2017.Riggs, Thomas (ed.) Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television vol. 93 Gale Group, July 1, 2009 best known for her role as Leeta on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. She has appeared in the TV shows General Hospital, Sliders, and ER and voiced characters in several animated films. As a singer, she has released several albums. In 2008, Masterson won the Best Feature Film Producer award at the LA Femme Film Festival for the film Yesterday Was a Lie, in which she also acted. In 2013, Masterson co-founded the Pop Culture Hero Coalition to speak out against bullying, racism, misogyny, homophobia and other forms of hate.
Early life
Masterson was born Christianne Carafano in Colorado Springs, Colorado. As her father was in the Army,[http://www.startrek.com/article/trek-stars-open-destination-star-trek-germany Trek Stars Open Destination Star Trek Germany]. startrek.com, April 27, 2018 she grew up in several places,{{cite news |title=All dressed up, somewhere to go: Actress Chase Masterson talks 'Star Trek,' antibullying ahead of Tulsa stop |first=Jimmie |last=Tramel |date=2017-10-11 |newspaper=Tulsa World |url=http://www.tulsaworld.com/weekend/cover_story/all-dressed-up-somewhere-to-go-actress-chase-masterson-talks/article_1a33ffb5-a4bf-5e84-a6c2-bca6e5bc4e83.html |access-date= |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011125427/http://www.tulsaworld.com/weekend/cover_story/all-dressed-up-somewhere-to-go-actress-chase-masterson-talks/article_1a33ffb5-a4bf-5e84-a6c2-bca6e5bc4e83.html |archive-date=2017-10-11}} among them West Haven, Connecticut{{cite news |title= 'Star Trek' actress to return home to West Haven to talk about bullying |date=2016-01-08 |newspaper=New Haven Register |url=https://www.nhregister.com/connecticut/article/Star-Trek-actress-to-return-home-to-West-11338871.php |access-date= |url-access=registration}} and three years in Germany. Her family settled in El Paso, Texas when she was in the sixth grade. Masterson graduated from the University of Texas and has one child.{{cite news |last1=Ruteshouser |first1=E. Cristy |title=An Interview with Chase Masterson |url=http://www.chaseclub.com/chaseint.html |access-date=24 May 2021 |work=Activate! |date=March 22, 1998 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190514210058/http://www.chaseclub.com/chaseint.html |archive-date= 14 May 2019}}
Career
=Acting=
Masterson's first major role came in 1994 as Ivy Lief on General Hospital. She then spent five years portraying the Bajoran Dabo girl Leeta on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine from 1995 to 1999. Her prominent feature film roles include starring as a sultry singer in James Kerwin's sci-fi film noir Yesterday Was a Lie, which she also produced, and voicing Janice Em in the animated film Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles. Her television guest-starring roles include ER and Sliders; in the latter, her role was that of Kelly Welles, the sister of Wade Welles.
Masterson hosted an Entertainment Tonight-style news program for the Sci-Fi Channel in the 1990s called Sci-Fi Entertainment[http://www.chasemasterson.com/ABOUT.html "About Chase"]. chasemasterson.com. Retrieved September 30, 2013. and an Internet-based radio talk show for the website The Fandom in 2004–2005.
Since 2010, Masterson has reprised her role as Leeta from Deep Space Nine, both in hologram form and in her "mirror universe" guise, in Cryptic Studios' Star Trek Online.[http://www.startrekonline.com/node/1982 "Chase Masterson Features In Star Trek Online"]. Star Trek Online. July 29, 2010. After Masterson appeared in two Doctor Who audio adventures from Big Finish Productions, it was announced on October 19, 2012, that she would star in her own spin-off series, Vienna, as "impossibly glamorous bounty hunter" Vienna Salvatori.{{cite web|url=http://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/star-trek-deep-space-nine-star-in-new-doctor-who-spin-off|title=Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Star Gets Her Own Audio Series! |website=Big Finish Productions}}
Masterson is voicing the title character "Auto" in monochrom's science fiction comedy film Je Suis Auto (release 2023). The film is a farcical comedy that deals with issues such as AI, politics of labor, and tech culture.{{cite web |last1=Dax |first1=Patrick |title=Star Trek Schauspielerin in Wien |url=https://futurezone.at/science/star-trek-schauspielerin-bei-roboter-cocktailfestival-in-wien/400329930 |website=Futurezone |date=November 20, 2018 |access-date=23 November 2018}}{{cite web |title=Je Suis Auto |url=http://www.monochrom.at/jesuisauto |access-date=23 November 2018}}{{cite web |title=FM4 Morning Show of November 24, 2018 |url=http://monochrom.at/jesuisauto/FM4-MorningShow__Nov-24-2018.mp3 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181126221445/http://monochrom.at/jesuisauto/FM4-MorningShow__Nov-24-2018.mp3 |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 November 2018 |website=FM4 |publisher=ORF |access-date=26 November 2018 }}
=Singer and live performer=
File:Chase Masterson Star Trek Convention Las Vegas 20110812.jpg
Masterson has released two commercial records: 2011's Yesterday Was a Lie and 2012's Burned With Desire. In addition, she has released several independent jazz CDs: Thrill of the Chase, whose title is a play on her stage name, the follow-up EP {{Lang|la|AD ASTRA!}} (Latin for To the Stars!), the limited edition Crystal Anniversary: Songs from the Holosuite in honor of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's fifteenth anniversary, and the "greatest hits" compilation Jazz Cocktail.
Masterson was special guest star at the 20th anniversary edition of cocktail robot festival Roboexotica in Vienna and performed a live jazz set for "robots and humans".{{cite web |title=Cocktail |url=https://www.vienna.at/roboexotica-20-festival-fuer-cocktailrobotik-in-wien/6002869 |website=vienna.at |date=November 20, 2018 |access-date=23 November 2018}}{{cite web |last1=Sagan |first1=Sonja |title=OTS0037, Roboexotica 2018 - Das Festival für Cocktailrobotik mit Star Trek Ehrengast Chase Masterson |url=https://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20181120_OTS0037/roboexotica-2018-das-festival-fuer-cocktailrobotik-mit-star-trek-ehrengast-chase-masterson |website=ots.at |access-date=23 November 2018}}
=Film producer=
Masterson was named Best Feature Film Producer of 2008 by the LA Femme Film Festival for her work as producer of the mystery/drama Yesterday Was a Lie.[http://www.lafemme.org/filmmaker-winners-2005-2010 "2008 LA FEMME FILMMAKER AWARDS"]. "Filmmaker Winners 2012–2005". La Femme Film Festival. Retrieved September 30, 2013.
=Advocacy=
In 2013, Masterson, who experienced bullying herself while in school, co-founded the Pop Culture Hero Coalition, a non-profit organization speaking out against "bullying, racism, misogyny, cyber-bullying, LGBT-bullying, and other forms of hate."Wickline, Dan. [http://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/11/19/chase-masterson-stands-up-to-bullying-and-hate-brings-message-to-new-jersey-comic-expo/ "Chase Masterson Stands Up To Bullying And Hate – Brings Message To New Jersey Comic Expo"] Bleeding Cool. November 19, 2015. Retrieved November 27, 2015.
Public image
File:Chase Masterson (29676081273).jpg in 2016]]
In 2004, as a result of her genre work, Masterson was named one of the world's "50 Sexiest Women" by the men's magazine Femme Fatales,{{cite journal |title=50 Sexiest Women of the Year |journal=Femme Fatales |volume=12 |date=January 2004}} and the "Favorite Science Fiction Actress on Television" in a TV Guide reader's poll.[http://www.finearts.utexas.edu/tad/people/guest_artists/archives/f07.cfm UT Austin guest lecturer biography] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100620212737/http://www.finearts.utexas.edu/tad/people/guest_artists/Archives/f07.cfm |date=2010-06-20 }} In December 2009, AOL named her one of the "Ten Sexiest Aliens on TV", reporting that Masterson is "regularly voted the most popular guest at Star Trek conventions."{{cite web|url=http://www.aoltv.co.uk/2009/12/01/sexiest-aliens-tv/|title=Ten Sexiest Aliens on TV|website=AOL Television|access-date=October 27, 2010|archive-date=July 24, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724143513/http://www.aoltv.co.uk/2009/12/01/sexiest-aliens-tv/|url-status=dead}}
Lawsuit against Matchmaker.com
Following a series of stalking incidents instigated by a man in Berlin, Masterson – under her birth name of Christianne Carafano – was the petitioner in Carafano v. Metrosplash.com, an online dating service, formerly Matchmaker.com, on which the man had created a fictitious dating profile that contained Masterson's home address, telephone number, four photographs of her, and a description of her that characterized her as licentious. As a result, she received a series of unwanted communications, including obscene telephone calls. When the matter was brought to the attention of Matchmaker.com they removed the profile from the site. Masterson then sued Matchmaker.com for defamation, invasion of privacy, misappropriation of the right of publicity and negligence. The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled against Masterson, deciding the man who created the profile was responsible for it, and not Matchmaker.com. The court cited Communications Decency Act, which states that "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider."[http://www.internetlibrary.com/cases/lib_case332.cfm "Christianne Carafano v. Metrosplash.com, Inc., et al."] 339 F.3d 1119 (United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit). August 13, 2003. Internet Law Library. Retrieved September 27, 2017.
Discography
- Yesterday Was a Lie (2011)
- "Burned with Desire" (2012)
Filmography
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
|+Television ! scope="col" | Year ! scope="col" | Title ! scope="col" | Role ! scope="col" | Notes |
| scope="row" | 1994
| Ivy Lief | Unknown episodes |
|---|
| scope="row" | 1995–1999
| Leeta | Recurring character; 17 episodes |
| scope="row" rowspan="2" | 1995
| ER | Mrs. Phillips | 1 episode, "Hell and High Water" |
| Live Shot
| Sheila Rydell | 3 episodes |
| scope="row" | 1996
| Sliders | Kelly Welles | rowspan="4" | 1 episode |
| scope="row" | 1999
| Gwen |
| scope="row" | 2002
| Caroline Franklin |
| scope="row" | 2015
| Sherry |
| scope="row" | 2019
| Pandora | Computer (Voice) | 9 episodes |
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
|+Films ! scope="col" | Year ! scope="col" | Title ! scope="col" | Role ! scope="col" | Notes | ||
| scope="row" | 1984
| Girl In Bed | rowspan="2" | credited as Christie Carafano | ||
|---|---|---|
| scope="row" | 1985
| Confessions of a Serial Killer | Prostitute | ||
| scope="row" | 1993
| Giggling Court Lady | | ||
| scope="row" | 1995
| Digital Man | Susie | | ||
| scope="row" | 1997
| Ballerina Finale | Lori | | ||
| scope="row" | 1998
| Sometimes They Come Back... for More | Major Callie O'Grady | | ||
| scope="row" | 1999
| Sammyville | Miranda Clark | | ||
| scope="row" | 2000
| Moira Murphy | | ||
| scope="row" | 2001
| Lightning: Fire from the Sky | Anna | | ||
| scope="row" | 2002
| Cathy Garrett | | ||
| scope="row" rowspan="2" | 2004
| Herself | | ||
| Creature Unknown
| Kat | | ||
| scope="row" | 2005
| Take Out | Nicole Blu | | ||
| scope="row" rowspan="2" | 2006
| Ashley Pierce | | ||
| Chastity
| Madam | | ||
| scope="row" | 2007
| Through Your Eyes | Herself | | ||
| scope="row" | 2008
| Singer | | ||
| scope="row" | 2008
| Xela | | ||
| scope="row" | 2011
| The Truth Is Out There | Herself | | ||
| scope="row" rowspan="2" | 2013
| The Search for Simon | The Publisher | | ||
| R.U.R.: Genesis
| Sulla | | ||
| scope="row" | 2016
| Star Trek: Captain Pike | Lieutenant Susan Kelly | | ||
| scope="row" | 2019
| Manipulated | Karen Jones | | ||
| scope="row" | 2020 | !
| Captain Connie Garrison / Natasha | | |
| scope="row" | 2024
| Interviewee / Two Anonymous Medical Professionals | | ||
| scope="row" | 2021
| Skipping Stones | Mrs. McDowell | rowspan="3" | Post-production | ||
| scope="row" rowspan="3" {{TBA}}
| Auto | ||
| Tempest: An Angels Wrath
| Dr. Angel Conch | ||
| The Inspector Chronicles
| Annabelle Wagner | Announced |
Source:{{Citation needed |date=July 2021}}
References
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External links
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- {{IMDb name|nm3639825|(as) Christie Carafano}}
- {{Instagram|itschasemasterson}}
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- [https://www.popculturehero.org/foundersandboard Pop Culture Hero Coalition founders' page]
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