Samantha Eggar Samantha Eggar is an Academy Award - nominated British actress who portrayed Marie Picard in the fourth season episode in . She was born Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar in Hamstead , London , England . Film work . Eggar was acting in a production of a William Shakespeare play in 1961 when she was discovered by producer Betty Box and cast in her first film , " The Wild and the Willing " . Two years later , director Alexander Singer cast her in his mystery film " Psyche 59 " . Eggar was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance in the 1965 film " The Collector " . She also won a Golden Globe for her portrayal , and was named Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival . As a result of the international success she achieved with " The Collector " , Eggar began starring in more American films , including the romantic comedy " Walk Don ' t Run " ( which co - starred George Takei ) , the classic 1967 family comedy " Doctor Dolittle " , and the 1970 historical drama " The Molly Maguires " ( with Anthony Zerbe ) . In the 1976 film " The Seven - Per - Cent Solution " , based on the novel by " Star Trek " film writer and director Nicholas Meyer , Eggar portrayed the wife of Sherlock Holmes ' sidekick , Dr . John Watson . " Star Trek : Voyager " guest actor Joel Grey also appeared in this film . After appearing in the 1977 science fiction horror film " The Uncanny " , Eggar portrayed the female lead in David Cronenberg ' s cult 1979 horror film " The Brood " , which earned Eggar a Genie Award nomination for Best Performance by a Foreign Actress . Eggar followed this with starring roles in two more horror films , " Demonoid : Messenger of Death " ( with Roy Jenson ) and " Curtains " ( also featuring William Marshall ) . Eggar focused on television for the remainder of the 1980s , returning to feature films in 1991 with " Ragin ' Cajun " . The following year , she worked alongside " Voyager " star Kate Mulgrew in the 1992 comedy film " Round Numbers " and co - starred with Ed Begley , Jr . in the drama " Dark Horse " . She later appeared in the 1996 superhero film " The Phantom " , along with Leon Russom , Bill Smitrovich , and Cary - Hiroyuki Tagawa . Eggar ' s most recent film credit was the 1999 thriller " The Astronaut ' s Wife " , in which she co - starred with Donna Murphy . In addition , Eggar was the voice of Hera , the mother of Hercules , in Disney ' s 1997 animated film " Hercules " and the television spin - off series of the same name . Matt Frewer was the voice of Panic in both of these projects . Television work . In 1972 , Eggar starred as Anna Leonowens in the short - lived television series " Anna and the King " ( based on the 1956 film " The King and I " ) , which aired for thirteen episodes on CBS . Fellow " Star Trek " alumni Rosalind Chao , Keye Luke , and Brian Tochi also appeared regularly on this series . Eggar starred in several made - for - TV movies during the 1970s . In 1973 , she played Phyllis Dietrickson in the TV adaptation of the " film noir " classic " Double Indemnity " , appearing with John Fiedler and Joan Pringle . The following year , she co - starred with John Savage in " All the Kind Strangers " , and in 1976 , she and Mariette Hartley appeared in " The Killer Who Wouldn ' t Die " ( along with Robert Hooks ) . Eggar also had a role in the 1977 Columbo vehicle " The Bye - Bye Sky High I . Q . Murder Case " , as did Theodore Bikel ( playing her husband ) and Kenneth Mars . In 1977 , Eggar and Joan Collins guest - starred together on an episode of " Starsky & Hutch " , whose regular cast included David Soul . Eggar later appeared in two episodes of the series " Fantasy Island " , which starred Ricardo Montalban . Subsequent television shows on which she guest - starred include " Murder , She Wrote " ( in an episode directed by Richard Colla ) , " Hotel " ( in an episode with Lee Meriwether ) , " Alfred Hitchcock Presents " ( with John Colicos ) , " Matlock " ( directed by Robert Scheerer ) , " L . A . Law " ( with Corbin Bernsen , Robert Curtis Brown , Larry Drake , Harvey Jason , Lawrence Tierney , and Tom Wright ) , and " Burke ' s Law " ( with Catherine Hicks ) . Eggar was to have portrayed Pamela Capwell Conrad on the NBC soap opera " Santa Barbara " , but she backed out before she could take on the role . The character was later played by Marj Dusay . Eggar co - starred with actor Christopher Plummer in the 1990 TV movie " A Ghost in Monte Carlo " . She later had a role in the 1993 TV movie " A Case for Murder " , along with fellow " Trek " alumni Robert DoQui , Rosemary Forsyth , Bruce French , Thomas Kopache , and Eugene Roche . Between 1991 and 1994 , Eggar was the voice of Queen Guinevere on the animated series " The Legend of Prince Valiant " , which also featured the voices of James Avery , Michael Horton , and Alan Oppenheimer . In 2000 , Eggar was briefly a regular cast member on the daytime drama series " All My Children " . In 2004 , she appeared in an episode of the CBS drama series " Cold Case " ( in which she and Johanna Watts played older and younger versions of the same character , along with Bruce Gray and Autumn Reeser ) . Most recently , she played the recurring role of Sara Templeton on the drama series .