Margot Rose (born July 17, 1956) is an American television and film actress, composer and lyricist.

Background
She attended Interlochen Arts Academy, the Yale School of Drama and the North Carolina School of the Arts. Margot began her career in 1975 working in theater (Godspell) and television commercials and was a member of the original company of I'm Getting My Act Together & Taking it on the Road at the New York Shakespeare Festival, then later at the Circle in the Square Downtown.

Career
Rose has guest starred on over sixty television series including: Hill Street Blues, E/R, Night Court, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, L.A. Law, The West Wing, Judging Amy, Desperate Housewives, Law and Order: Los Angeles, Murphy's Law, The Mentalist and Numb3rs, among many others. She had a leading role in the 1992 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Inner Light", one of the most widely acclaimed episodes of that series.

Rose has had a number of roles in films, including: 48 Hrs., A Civil Action, True Believer, Brewster's Millions and Hollow Man. Rose composed the music for the 2000 film Sordid Lives and the 2008 television series Sordid Lives: