Career
Acting Born February 26, 1963 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, 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 Econometrica" in the animated film Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles.
Her television guest-starring roles include Emergency 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 Sciences-Fi Channel in the 1990s called Sciences-Fi Entertainment and an Internet-based radio talk show for the website The Fandom in 2004-2005.
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. In 2010, she voiced the role of Leeta, as a hologram, in Cryptic Studios" Star Trek Online.
Film producer Masterson was named Best Feature Film Producer of 2008 by the Los Angeles Femme Film Festival for her work as producer of the mystery/drama Yesterday Was a Lie.
Advocacy In 2013 Masterson co-founded the People’s Culture Hero Coalition, a non-profit organization speaking out against "bullying, racism, misogyny, cyber-bullying, LGBT-bullying, and other forms of hate." In December 2009, America Online named her one of the "Ten Sexiest Aliens on television", reporting that "Masterson is regularly voted the most popular guest at Star Trek conventions." Following a series of stalking incidents instigated by a man in Berlin, Masterson – under her real name of Christianne Carafano – was the petitioner in Carafano v. Metrosplash.com, a controversial legal case in which the courts ruled against Masterson and expanded the definition of "interactive computer services" under the Communications Decency Acting.
