Farrah Rachael Forke[1] (January 12, 1968 – February 25, 2022) was an American actress best known for her roles as Alex Lambert on the NBC sitcom Wings and Mayson Drake on Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.

She also voiced the character Big Barda on the animated television series Batman Beyond and Justice League Unlimited, starred as Carey on the short-lived cult sitcom Dweebs, Nikki Harkin on Mr. Rhodes, Carol Ashby in the pilot episode of the 90's remake of Fantasy Island, and appeared in several made-for-TV movies such as Nurses on the Line (1993), Journey to the Center of the Earth (1993), Bionic Ever After?

After graduating from high school, she relocated to New York City in 1989 to study acting at the Lee Strasberg Institute.

"I am really nothing like her," she said in an interview, "but the toughness I got to display as a real bartender in New York at closing time prepared me for the role of Alex.

Forke was asked back for a guest appearance in one episode of the sixth season, which gave a conclusion to her character.

[4] After Wings, Forke starred as Carey, an office manager for a computer software company, in the short-lived CBS sitcom Dweebs (1995), and then, from 1996 to 1997, a guidance counselor at a prep school in NBC's Mr.

[10][11] Forke would once again take part in the Superman universe by voicing the character Big Barda in two episodes of Batman Beyond and one episode of Justice League Unlimited, animated shows set in the same universe as Superman: The Animated Series.

[1][6] In films, she featured in Academy Award winner Barry Levinson's Disclosure (1994), Michael Mann's Heat (1995),[1] and Ground Control (1998).

[9] She appeared in Kate's Addiction (1998), in which she and actress Kari Wuhrer play women in a lesbian love affair, as well as the TV-movies Nurses on the Line: The Crash of Flight 7 (CBS, 1993) with Lindsay Wagner.

Other TV movie roles include Journey to the Center of the Earth (NBC, 1993), Complex of Fear (CBS, 1993), Bionic Ever After?

[14][15] She was dear friends with actress Caroline Aaron, who played Mary Pat Lee on Wings.

[4] Forke met Mark Layton Brown while he was working in the art department of Wings.