Robin Curtis (born 15 June 1956; age 67) is the actress who replaced Kirstie Alley as Saavik in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. She later portrayed Tallera/ T'Paal in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes "Gambit, Part I" and "Gambit, Part II". One of her movie costumes was sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. [1]
In 2002, she recorded an audio commentary for the Star Trek III: The Search for Spock Special Edition DVD with Leonard Nimoy, Harve Bennett and Charles Correll.
Television
Curtis begain her television career on Knight Rider starring Patricia McPherson in "Short Notice". She then appeared on The Equalizer in "Dead Drop" alongside Mark Margolis, Robert O'Reilly, Saul Rubinek and Keith Szarabajka. The cop-drama trend continued when Curtis guested on Mike Hammer in "Dead Pigeon" with John Mahon. She was seen on the spy-comedy Scarecrow & Mrs. King in "Rumors of My Death" with Wren T. Brown. Curtis played Kate Connelly twice on MacGyver first in "The Gauntlet" with Gregory Sierra and "Friends" with John Anderson and Bruce McGill. Curtis took to the skies on Airwolf starring Michele Scarabelli in "Rogue Warrior". After all of this drama, suspense and action, Curtis got to do comedy on Night Court where she reunited with Search for Spock co-star John Larroquette in "Mental Giant". Curtis was afforded more comedic work on Dream On starring Chris Demetral in "Death Takes a Coffee Break". Curtis found herself on a comedy roll with a turn on Herman's Head starring Molly Hagan in "Intern-al Affairs". Curtis returned to sci-fi form on Babylon 5 starring Andreas Katsulas and Bill Mumy in "Deathwalker". Curtis was then seen on Space:Above & Beyond created by Gene Roddenberry in "Eyes" joining Lanei Chapman, Tucker Smallwood and Daniel Stewart. After returning to sci-fi, Curtis appeared on the mystery Murder She Wrote in "Murder Among Friends" with Nicolas Surovy and Barbara Alyn Woods. Curtis reunited with Voyage Home co-star Catherine Hicks on her series 7th Heaven also starring Stephen Collins in "Choices".
Film
Curtis was in First Affair(1983) with Charley Lang, followed by 1986's Northstar with Mitchell Ryan. In 1987's LBJ:The Early Years Curtis got the chance to portray former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis where she worked with Bruce Gray, Anne Haney and Jerry Hardin. In Shootdown(1988) Curtis was teamed with George Coe, Molly Hagan, Jennifer Savidge and Lorinne Vozoff. Curtis was seen in Bloodfist VI:Ground Zero with Bert Remsen followed a year later in Dark Breed with Jonathan Banks and Lance LeGault. The Christmas themed Santa with Muscles teamed Curtis with Ed Begley, Jr., Clint Howard and Don Stark. Curtis worked once again with Lance LeGault in Scorpio One(1997) with George Murdock. In 1998, Curtis was seen in Recoil Thomas Kopache. 1999 was the last year Curtis appeared on film. She first reunited with Mitchell Ryan in Making Contact with JD Cullum and Gregory Itzin and finally The Sex Monster with Kara Zediker.
External links
- The Official Robin Curtis Website
- Robin Curtis at Wikipedia
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