Cecily Adams

Cecily Adams

Cecily April Adams (February 6, 1958 – March 3, 2004) was an American actress, casting director, and lyricist.

Adams was born in Jamaica, Queens, New York, the daughter of comic actor Don Adams and singer Adelaide Efantis. She grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland and Beverly Hills, California, attending Beverly Hills High School and the University of California at Irvine. She acted in high school and college and in 1983 joined the prestigious Hollywood theatre company Theatre West.

Adams is well known to fans of Star Trek for portraying Ishka (also known as "Moogie"), mother of the Ferengi brothers Rom and Quark in the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Adams was in fact over nine years younger than Armin Shimerman, the actor who portrayed her son Quark, and was heavily made up to appear as an older Ferengi woman. She was a popular figure not only on the show but in personal appearances at various Star Trek functions and conventions.

She appeared in guest roles on a variety of television series including Just Shoot Me!, Murphy Brown, and Party of Five, and with her father in his television series Check It Out! and television movie Get Smart Again. Adams played a lead role in the 1991 independent feature film little secrets. She was also a talented lyricist and with her collaborator David Burke wrote pop songs as well as commercial jingles and television theme songs.