Career
Besch appeared in a variety of daytime soaps such as The Secret Storm, The Edge of Night, Love is a Many Splendored Thing, and finally, Somerset. In addition to her theater career, she began appearing in more nationally known primetime features, such as the 1979 miniseries Backstairs at the White House.
Her most famous role was probably as Dr. Carol Marcus, the mother of Admiral James T. Kirk's son David in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. She also had a small role as the much-hated "Belle Marmillion" in the hit movie Steel Magnolias. Besch also appeared in such films as The Day After, the acclaimed made-for-television film directed by Nicholas Meyer, Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry with Katharine Hepburn, Victory at Entebbe, Date with an Angel and Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story. She was even cast in Tremors by playing the role of the Doctor's wife being sucked under the desert inside her station wagon by the graboids.
In 1992, she received her first acting nomination - an Emmy Award - for the landmark TV-movie Doing Time on Maple Drive, co-starring Jim Carrey. She received another Emmy nomination a year later for her recurring-character performance as Janine Turner's neurotic mother, 'Jane O'Connell', in the CBS series, Northern Exposure. She continued to appear in films and television, including ER and Melrose Place until her 1996 death at the age of 56 following a long battle with breast cancer.
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