Hana Hatae
| Hana Hatae | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 15, 1988 Tarzana, California, U.S. |
| Known for | Molly O'Brien in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine |
Hana Rebecca Hatae (born July 15, 1988) is an American actress. As a child actress, Her first role was as Molly O'Brien in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, a role which she is set to reprise in the upcoming fan-made series Star Trek: Renegades.
Hana Rebecca Hatae was born July 15, 1988 in Tarzana, California to Akira Hatae, and Lisa Givner-Hatae, who met in college at Berkley. Akira had come from Japan to study English, while Lisa was pre-law, and they both worked at the same Japanese restaurant. Givner-Hatae dropped out after three years to accompany Akira to Japan as he learned to be a sushi chef. After returning to the United States, Akira worked as a chef at the Japanese restaurant, Sushi Ko, in Bel Air, California, eventually becoming the restaurant's manager. Later, he and Lisa became its owner, with Lisa running the front of the house. Hatae has a brother, Samson, two years her senior, and a sister, Summer, nine years her junior.
As a child actress, Hatae's first and most notable role was as Molly O'Brien, the daughter of recurring characters Miles O'Brien and Keiko O'Brien on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. When auditioning for the role, Hatae entered the auditioning room by herself. According to an account related by Hatae's mother, when Hatae walked out of the room, all her mother could hear was everyone in the room laughing, which the Hataes interpreted as a positive sign. Her parents received no callback before being told she won the role. She first appeared as Molly in the episode "Rascals", though she has no memory of her time on that show. When Miles O'Brien was made a regular cast member of the spinoff series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Hatae's character became a recurring character throughout that series, appearing in a total of 11 episodes, from about ages 5 - 12. Though she had little awareness that she was playing a role at first, she came to understand that she was acting by the end of her time on the show, by which point actors Colm Meaney and Rosalind Chao, who played her parents on the show, became akin to second parents to her.
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