Na’Toth was a Narn and daughter of Counsellor Shu’Toth. She served as Ambassador G’Kar’s second attaché, after his first aide Ko D’ath died in an airlock accident. G’ar was initially suspicious of Na’Toth, fearing that she might be a member of the Thenta Makur (an assassins’ guild) sent to kill him; in fact Na’Toth saved his life. Thereafter, G’Kar quickly developed a liking for Na’Toth. In return she stood loyally beside him as they both prevented the local Narns from starting a major incident on the station, during the Narn—Centauri War. She was present on Narn when the Centauri attacked their homeworld and was thought to have died but some years later Londo Mollari and G’Kar rescued her when they discovered that she was alive and being kept in a cell under the Centauri imperial palace. She then went back to Narn to heal in body and spirit. Na’Toth had a sarcastic (if not sardonic) sense of humor which she.
The character of Na’Toth was introduced when Ko D’ath had to be written out in a hastily arranged airlock accident when Mary Woronov had to be replaced ‘with virtually no notice after we found that she really had a hard time with the Narn prosthetics’. Susan Kellerman was going to play Na’Toth but she walked off the set because of the prosthetics so Julie Caitlin Brown was hired at the last minute; she however declined to return for a second series and was replaced by Mary Kay Adams who had worn prosthetics before as Klingon on Star Trek. However Executive producer J Michael Straczynski – and the fans – quickly became dissatisfied with Adams’s more understated approach to the role, and Na’Toth was written out of the series after appearing in only two episodes. Julie Caitlin Brown returned to reprise the role in the fifth-season episode ‘A Tragedy of Telepaths’ wheere G’Kar and Londo rescued her.Na'Toth's costume required a full rubber head coupled with contact lenses that are larger than normal.
Both Julie Caitlin Brown and Mary Kay Adams found the Narm makeup difficult to cope with. Although Julie Caitlin Brown said that she ‘loved the character’ she decided not to renew her contract citing the makeup (‘My face was very sore from the makeup and I was afraid there would be permanent damage.’)as the main reason , although she also wanted to pursue movie roles:
You have to wear an awful lot of makeup to play Na’Toth. It is a very, very demanding role. You're working fifteen to eighteen hours a day and you can’t breathe. There were times when I couldn’t see where I was going, because of the contact lenses – it was all just a red fuzz. And I lost so much weight working on the show, because I sweated it all away underneath that costume! So the makeup was probably the biggest deterrent for me; I couldn’t sign on and say, ‘Yes, I’ll do this for thirteen episodes for another four years’.
Mary Kay Adams said:
Na’Toth’s makeup was much more uncomfortable than Grilka’s. It felt like wearing dinner plates. And then having the full hood on . . . it was very claustrophobic. There was actually an actress [Susan Kellerman] who had been hired before Julie who never made it onscreen because the full makeup gave her too much anxiety. [The prosthetic] covered the collarbone and came down just about to the breastbone, but in order to make it fit for the whole head and neck area, they took a cast from just above the bustline up. Wearing this rubber hood, your ears were covered all day – the ears of the prosthetic were not where our ears are. So hearing was muffled. They cut the mask right up underneath the eye, and popped those contacts in. We couldn’t see or hear. It was like being submerged. The only thing that was ours were our lips. Typically, normal calls were around 5 in the morning and you’d go as late as 7:30 at night.