Lena Banks
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Lena Banks is an actress who was a regular extra throughout the last three seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation. She appeared also in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, althought most of her part was cut from the final aired version. As an extra, she received no on-screen credit for all of her appearances. Banks was on set the day Gene Roddenberry passed away, filming scenes for the The Next Generation episode "Hero Worship".
Banks has appeared in several commercials and stage plays, including a praised part in a version of "Midsummer Night's Dream". Beside acting, she is skilled in dance and voice work, and can also been seen in music videos for artists such as Keith Richards.
Banks appeared in the television series General Hospital, Murphy Brown, and Cheers (starring Kirstie Alley and Kelsey Grammer), and played a recurring part in the short lived comedy series Top of the Heap (1991), which featured Leslie Jordan and Rod Arrants.
Among her feature film appearances are supporting parts in the two time Academy Award winning drama Bugsy (1991, with Bebe Neuwirth and Robert Beltran), the Academy Award nominated music drama The Mambo Kings (1992, with Jonathan Del Arco, Joycelyn O'Brien, and Susie Stillwell), Tim Burton's sequel Batman Returns (1992, with Vincent Schiavelli) in which she played a crowd woman in a leopard dress and served as stand-in for actress Michelle Pfeiffer, the action film Last Action Hero (1993, with F. Murray Abraham), and the thriller Color of Night (1994, starring Scott Bakula and Brad Dourif) in which she appeared on photographs as the wife of Bruce Willis, as well as car stunt work in James Cameron's Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991).
[edit] Uncredited Star Trek appearances
[edit] Recurring appearance
- TNG: as Starfleet ensign
- "Hero Worship"
- "Realm of Fear"
- "Schisms"
- "True Q"
- "Rascals"
- "Liaisons"
- "Interface"
- "Gambit, Part I"
- "Force of Nature"
- "The Pegasus"
- "Lower Decks"
- "Eye of the Beholder"
- "Journey's End"
- "Bloodlines"
- "Emergence"
