Cast Biographies Kira

Major Kira Nerys

Major Kira Nerys is a former member of the Bajoran underground. She is now an outspoken critic of the provisional government of Bajor. Having fought for freedom all her life against the Cardassians when they invaded Bajor, it has angered her to see the older leaders throw it all away through their petty dissensions. She has been trying without success to reach the Kai (spiritual leader of Bajor) herself to air her grievances.

So it is very possible she was sent by the government to be the Bajoran administrator at the space station simply to get her outspoken voice out of earshot. Kira loathes the Cardassians and she committed atrocities against them in the name of freedom, some of which bother her. But others in the Bajoran underground begin a new wave of terrorism and she is forced into a moral quandary about tracking them down and bringing them to justice. Some of them consider her a turncoat.

Nana Visitor

Nana Visitor, née Tucker, was born in New York City on July 26, 1957, and was raised there, where her father was a Broadway choreographer and her mother, Nenette Charisse, taught ballet and ran a dance studio. At the age of seven Visitor began to study dance at her mother's studio, and she began her career on stage soon after graduating from high school. She then accepted some television roles in New York before moving to Los Angeles in 1985 and, after a slew of guest appearances, accepted the role of Major Kira Nerys in Deep Space Nine. The filmography attempts to document all of her stage, television, and film credits. Her estranged husband, too, is an actor, and their son Buster was born in 1992.