RAFFI

For Michelle Hurd, Star Trek: Picard represents the culmination of 30 years of TV and movie roles. The actress channeled all her experience into the character of Raffi, using it to create a damaged, hard-bitten hero whose history with Jean-Luc Picard has been decidedly turbulent.

Michelle Hurd is capping the 30th year of her career with the greatest gig of her life: the butt-kicking, ready-to-rumble Rafaela “Raffi” Musiker on Star Trek: Picard. Get her talking about both – three decades as an actor and now joining the Picard cast – and the adjectives spew out faster than phaser fire. “It’s insane, amazing, surreal, very strange,” she enthuses. “It’s all those words. The thing that is so beautiful about Picard – and I keep saying to my family and friends – is it took 30 years for me to get a really well-defined, well-textured, layered, complex, imperfectly perfect character. And I thank [Executive Producers] Michael Chabon, Akiva Goldsman, and Patrick Stewart for that. So, I’m pretty proud of my 30-year legacy.” “Star Trek has always been…

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