Grace Lee Whitney
Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA — Apr 01 1930• Died May 01 2015
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Grace Lee Whitney (April 1, 1930 - May 1, 2015) was an American actress and singer, best known for her role as Janice Rand on the original Star Trek television series and subsequent Star Trek films. Born Mary Ann Chase, she was adopted by the Whitney family, who changed her name to Grace Elaine. She started her entertainment career as a "girl singer" on Detroit's WJR radio at the age of fourteen. After she left home, she began to call herself Lee Whitney, eventually becoming known as Grace Lee Whitney. In her late teens, she moved to Chicago where she o…
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Star Trek: Voyager
Commander Janice Rand
Diagnosis: Murder
Encounter Group Abductee
Star Trek
Janice Rand
Bewitched
Babs Livingston
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Saloon Girl
Mannix
Gloria
Batman
Neila
The Virginian
Nina
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Ellen
Hart to Hart
Chic Lady
Cannon
The Rifleman
The Untouchables
Fran
The Big Valley
Maggie
The Name of the Game
Suzette
77 Sunset Strip
The Outer Limits
Carla Duveen
Bat Masterson
Louise Talbot
Gunsmoke
Pearl
Surfside 6
Sam Benedict
Susan Craig
Arrest and Trial
Run for Your Life
Billie
The Detectives
The Outsider
The Eleventh Hour
Dawn
Cimarron Strip
Katie
Bring Back...
Self
Some Like It Hot
Rosella (uncredited)
The Walter Winchell File
Temple Houston
Tangerine O'Shea
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
CPO Janice Rand
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Commander Rand
Rango
Death Valley Days
Verna
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Excelsior Communications Officer
Peter Loves Mary
Roxanne Jones
Pocketful of Miracles
Queenie's Broad (uncredited)
General Electric Theater
Audrey Henderson
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Commander Janice Rand (Woman in Cafeteria)
Critic's Choice
Minor Role
The Captains
Self
Ironside
Stripper (uncredited)
Irma la Douce
Kiki
The Naked and the Dead
Girl in Dream Sequence
The Man from Galveston
Texas Rose
Way Down Cellar
Velma
The Kid with the 200 I.Q.
Star Trek: Of Gods and Men
Janice Rand
Top Banana
Miss Holland (uncredited)
The Texan Meets Calamity Jane
Cecelia Mullen
A Public Affair
Tracey Phillips
Bring Back... Star Trek
Self