Actor / Director Profile

Bibi Besch was a very busy supporting actress who had worked in television for over twenty years before she was nominated for an Emmy. She received one supporting actress Emmy nomination for Doing Time on Maple Drive (1992) (TV) and another in 1993 for a guest appearance on "Northern Exposure" (1990). While Bibi is a veteran of dozens of television movies from 1976 to 1995, she has also appeared in feature films. She was Dr. Carol Marcus in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) and played Belle Marmillion in Steel Magnolias (1989). She also worked in the giant earthworm movie Tremors (1990) and was in Madonna's movie Who's That Girl (1987). Her stage work included the plays "Fame", "The Chinese Prime Minister", "Here Lies Jeremy Troy" and "Once for the Asking". Her television credits include guest roles on shows from "ER" (1994) to "Murder, She Wrote" (1984). Her television series and miniseries roles ranged from the soap opera "Somerset" (1970) to "Backstairs at the White House" (1979) to "The Hamptons" (1983). Bibi Besch died at age 56 of breast cancer on September 7, 1996.