Robin Morselli

Robin Morselli-Reilly is an actress who worked as background actress and stand-in on many episodes of , , , and . Most notably, she worked on all seven seasons of Deep Space Nine prominently seen as a Bajoran on the Promenade and in Ops.
Morselli was cast through Central Casting and auditioned for her part on Deep Space Nine. She appeared on screen as Klingons, Romulans, and several different aliens. Morselli worked behind the scenes as regular stand-in for Louise Fletcher, Majel Barrett Roddenberry, Salome Jens, and covered for Nana Visitor. She also stood-in for many Ferengi actors including Jeffrey Combs' Brunt and worked as utility stand-in. Besides working as background actress on Enterprise, she also stood-in for Jeffrey Combs' Thy'lek Shran. On Deep Space Nine she worked behind the scenes where she trained off-camera lines with actors and during the seventh season she also performed voice-overs. Her Romulan uniform from the episode "Flesh and Blood" was sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. Morselli also worked as a Klingon who shouted away from his seat at the Billboard Awards show and was interviewed for the Trek Untold podcast #64 on 25 July 2021.
Born in California, Morselli attended Western Illinois University where she graduated in 1976. She always had a passion for acting but attended a law school to become a lawyer as this was her mother's wish. Travelling between California, Illinois, and Seattle, she worked as bartender, Playboy bar waitress, buyer at her mother's clothing store, and in the late 1970s and early 1980s as flight attendant for Continental Airlines. In the 1980s she attended acting classes in California.
Morselli appeared in episodes of Seinfeld and Beverly Hills, 90210 and was featured as a banquet guest in In the Line of Fire (1993, with Gary Cole, Clyde Kusatsu, Carl Ciarfalio, Michael Zurich, Lena Banks, Robert Buckingham, Elizabeth Pengson, Sharon Schaffer, and Denise Lynne Roberts). She also appeared as a background actress, an Icarus ranger, in Jonathan Frakes' Star Patrol! (2000, along with Brian Demonbreun, Tom Miller, Michael Bailous, Kathi Cook, Jason Alexander, Mel Johnson, Jr., and Charles Rocket). In 2020, she filmed scenes for the drama Along Came Wanda, co-produced and starring fellow Deep Space Nine background actress and stand-in Cathy DeBuono.
On the set of Deep Space Nine she met Mark Reilly who worked as camera operator. The two married on 19 January 1997 and on 3 December 1997 she gave birth to their son, who also became an actor.
In more recent years, Morselli worked as stand-in on a couple of shows and focused her craft on working behind the scenes for several theaters. She was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and also became a fundraiser for several charity organizations.
== Star Trek appearances ==
File:Tau Cygna V colonist 24.jpg|Tau Cygna V colonist(uncredited)
File:Bajoran DS9 cmd officer 1.jpg|Bajoran officerRecurring character(uncredited)
File:TyGokor Klingon 5.jpg|Klingon warrior(uncredited)
File:Pelian DS9 visitor female, 2373.jpg|Pelian visitor(uncredited)
File:Bashir 62 hologram guest 18.jpg|Holographic party guest(uncredited)
File:Alien tsunkatse spectator 2.jpg|Alien Tsunkatse spectator(uncredited)
File:Kelis' species spectator 2.jpg|Alien spectator(uncredited)
File:Holographic Romulan 3 2377.jpg|Holographic Romulan(uncredited)
File:Lokirrim guard 1.jpg|Lokirrim guard(uncredited)
File:Sutok's species Quarra worker 1.jpg|Alien worker(uncredited)
File: Xanthan bazaar alien 25.jpg|Xanthan bazaar visitor(uncredited)
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=== Stand-in work ===
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** – stand-in for Majel Barrett Roddenberry
** – stand-in for Louise Fletcher
** – stand-in for Louise Fletcher
** – stand-in for Louise Fletcher
** – stand-in for Nana Visitor
** – stand-in for Louise Fletcher
** – utility stand-in
** – stand-in for Christine Healy and utility stand-in
** – stand-in for Tricia O'Neil, Shannon Cochran, and Nana Visitor
** – stand-in for Majel Barrett Roddenberry
** – utility stand-in
** – stand-in for Louise Fletcher
** – stand-in for Chase Masterson and Jefrey Alan Chandler
** – stand-in for Louise Fletcher
** – utility stand-in
** – stand-in for Susanna Thompson
** – stand-in for Majel Barrett Roddenberry
** – stand-in for Louise Fletcher
** – utility stand-in
** – stand-in for Louise Fletcher
** – stand-in for Salome Jens
** – stand-in for Louise Fletcher
** – stand-in for Nana Visitor and Rosalind Chao
** – stand-in for Armin Shimerman
** – stand-in for Chase Masterson
** – stand-in for Louise Fletcher
** – stand-in for Louise Fletcher
** – stand-in for Louise Fletcher
** – stand-in for Louise Fletcher
** – stand-in for Louise Fletcher
* – utility stand-in
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