Nana Visitor

Nana Visitor born Nana Tucker July 26 1957 is an American actress known for playing Kira Nerys in the television series Star Trek Deep Space Nine and Jean Ritter in the television series Wildfire Nana Tucker was born July 26 1957 in New York Citythe daughter of Nenette Charisse a ballet teacher and Robert Tucker a choreographer she is a niece of actressdancer Cyd Charisse Visitor became pregnant by her Deep Space Nine costar Alexander Siddig also known as Siddig elFadil in 1996 and the pregnancy was incorporated into a DS9 storyline beginning in the fourth season episode Body Partswhich premiered in June 1996 She gave birth to her son Django El Tahir El Siddig during production of the episode The Assignment though her character would remain pregnant until the fifth season episode The Begotten which premiered in January 1997 Visitor and Siddig married in June 1997 and divorced in April 2001 In early 2002 Visitor became engaged to Matthew Rimmer company manager for the musical Chicago and they wed in April 2003