Layla Sarakalo

Layla Sarakalo is an artist and fashion designer who appeared as a background actress, a passerby on a San Francisco street, in .
 
Sarakalo was born in San Francisco, California. After her car was towed from the filming location on Grant Avenue on , 
* Layla Sarakalo happened upon the set from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) when her car was towed away to make room for the film's production. Sarakalo offered to be an extra so that she could make money to get her car back.
She was a member of the group of extras who were instructed to interact with the two actors, but she ignored the instructions given to them that they should not speak while on camera. She said, "Oh, I don't know if I know the answer to that. I think it's across the bay. In Alameda!" The crew decided that her exchange with the actors fit the scene, and kept it in the film. Sarakalo did not realize until the film was released that her scene had not landed on the cutting room floor.
Sarakalo, a fashion designer and art historian, lived in Paris, France for more than ten years, where she hosted a rock and roll radio show in English and later opened a fashion house near the Rodin Museum.
Her Star Trek experience was revealed in when she decided to tell her story. Until then she was only known as the "mystery woman".
Sarakalo began creating images using 's name and image, with his permission. She is now translating scientific data into art with the assistance of geophysicists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge, California. 
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* The true fact in listed under her name in the IMDB Trivia Section.
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