Dawson is the ex-wife of actor Casey Biggs, who is best known for playing Damar on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. She is currently married to casting director Eric Dawson. They have one daughter, Emma, whom Dawson was pregnant with during the fourth season of Star Trek: Voyager. Their second daughter, Mia, was adopted from China.
Outside of Trek, Dawson had a recurring role on the daytime TV soap opera Another World in 1985. (Her Star Trek: Voyager co-star Jennifer Lien would also join the show during the 1991-92 season.) She and her Star Trek: Voyager co-star Robert Picardo went on to have recurring roles on the short-lived NBC series The Lyon's Den in 2003. She has also appeared in a handful of films, most notably the 1991 drama Guilty by Suspicion, the 1992 tele-film Mortal Sins, and the 1996 direct-to-video science fiction sequel Darkman III: Die Darkman Die.
Dawson also continues to expand her television directing credits, filming episodes of such programs as Crossing Jordan, The O.C., Lost, and Heroes.
