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Ellen Ware Geer (born 29 August 1941; age 82) is the actress who played Kila Marr in the Star Trek: The Next Generation fifth season episode "Silicon Avatar". Geer filmed her scenes between Thursday 8 August 1991 and Thursday 15 August 1991 on Paramount Stage 8, 9, and 16.

She is the daughter of fellow Next Generation guest star Herta Ware, and the mother of Star Trek: Picard guest actress Willow Geer. Her costume was later worn by background actress Leslie McCasky in the Star Trek: Voyager fifth season episode "11:59" and by Barbara J. Tarbuck in the Star Trek: Enterprise first season episode "Shadows of P'Jem" before it was sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. [1]

Geer has enjoyed a long, distinguished career in film and television. She began her career appearing as a nun in the 1968 Richard Lester drama Petulia. This film also marked the first credited appearance by future Deep Space Nine star René Auberjonois. Geer followed this with an appearance in 1969's The Reivers with her actor father, Will Geer.

In 1971, Geer played the deceased wife of the lead character in Kotch, appearing throughout the movie in flashbacks. (Biff Elliot also appeared in this film.) That same year, she became a regular on The Jimmy Stewart Show (which aired until the following year) and had a supporting role in Harold and Maude (which was photographed by John A. Alonzo and featured costumes by William Ware Theiss). In 1974, she starred in two films which she also wrote: Silence and Memory of Us. Both featured her father.

The remainder of the 1970s consisted primarily of guest appearances and made-for-TV movies. TV shows on which she appeared during this time included Barnaby Jones (two episodes, including one where she played the wife of Gary Lockwood; both starred Lee Meriwether), Police Story (with Glenn Corbett), Charlie's Angels (with Louise Sorel), CHiPs (one episode with Marc Alaimo and later several episodes with Michael Dorn), and two episodes of Fantasy Island starring Ricardo Montalban (one episode also guest-starred John Fiedler). Her TV movie credits during this time included 1975's Babe (co-starring Byron Morrow and Meg Wyllie), The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976, co-starring Cliff DeYoung, Laurence Luckinbill, Phillip Richard Allen, Arthur Batanides, Peter Brocco, and Bill Quinn), and 1979's A Shining Season (with Ed Begley, Jr.). The only film on which she worked in the late 1970s was Over the Edge (1979).

Films that followed included Heart Like a Wheel (1983, with Dick Miller), Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983), Creator (1985, co-starring Virginia Madsen, David Ogden Stiers, Kenneth Tigar, Ian Wolfe, and Jeff Corey), Lonely Hearts (1991, with mother Herta Ware, as well as Bibi Besch, Joanna Cassidy, Miriam Flynn, and Charles Napier), Patriot Games (1992), Clear and Present Danger (1992, featuring Harris Yulin, Reg E. Cathey, and Vaughn Armstrong), Phenomenon (1996, with Brent Spiner and Richard Kiley), The Odd Couple II (1998, with Richard Riehle), and Criminal (2004). The remainder of her TV credits include guest appearances on The Waltons, Quincy, M.E. (with K Callan, Nicholas Coster, Jonathan Frakes, Robert Ito, Phillip Pine, and Garry Walberg), Dallas, The Practice, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, ER, NYPD Blue, and Cold Case (with Randy Oglesby). She also had recurring roles on Falcon Crest and Beauty and the Beast – the latter series starring Ron Perlman.

Later credits include the recurring role of Lillian Sims in three episodes of Desperate Housewives (2007-2008, with Teri Hatcher, Brenda Strong, John Rosenfeld, J. Michael Flynn, Kevin Rahm, Ken Edling, and Arlo Hemphill), guest roles in Bones (2009, with Kelvin Yu, Matt Malloy, and Rick Scarry), The Mentalist (2009, with Jude Ciccolella), Medium (2010, with Bruce Gray and Jenette Goldstein), and Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior (2011) as well as the drama Montana Amazon (2011, with James G. MacDonald).

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