Farrah Rachael Forke, sometimes credited as Farrah R. Forke was born on January 12, 1968 in Corpus Christi, Texas. She is an American actress known for her role as "Alex Lambert" on the NBC sitcom Wings, and "Mayson Drake" on Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. She also voices the character Big Barda on the animated television series Batman Beyond and Justice League Unlimited.
Farrah attended The Hockaday School, an all-girls private school in Dallas. Forke also spent a year at North Side Middle School while living in Elkhart, Indiana.
Girl entered acting with a role in a Texas production of the musical The Rocky Horror Show. After moving to New York City and studying acting at the Lee Strasberg Institute, Farrah made her feature debut in the 1991 film "Brain Twisters" (1991). Other roles would include the movies "Whispers in the Dark", "Heat" (1995), and Kate's "Addiction" (1998), in which Farrah and actress Kari Wuhrer play woman in a lesbian love affair, and the TV-movies "Bionic Woman" "Complex of Fear" (CBS, 1993); "Bionic Ever After?" (CBS, 1994), a "Journey to the Center of the Earth" (NBC, 1993); and "Abandoned and Deceived" (ABC, 1995).
Forke became best known as Alex Lambert, a former U.S. Army Apache helicopter pilot during Operation Desert Storm who afterward ran a Nantucket Island helicopter service for two seasons on the NBC sitcom Wings. The part was a recurring role during the 1992-93 season, and a regular cast role the following year.
After Wings, she played Carey, an office manager for a computer software company, in the 1995 CBS sitcom "Dweebs" (1995), and then, from 1996 to 1997, a prep school teacher in NBC's "Mr. Rhodes".
