Mariette Hartley

Mariette Hartley is the Emmy Award-winning actress who portrayed Zarabeth in the third season episode .
She filmed her scenes on Monday , Tuesday and Thursday at Desilu Stage 10 and Paramount Stage 5.
She was later one of the performers considered for the role of Gillian Taylor for , however the role was ultimately won out by Catherine Hicks. (, , p. 39)
Born Mary Loretta Hartley in Weston, Connecticut, Hartley studied with acting legend at the Repertory Stratford and with Oscar-nominated actress at Lucille Lortel's White Barn Theatre. Afterward, Hartley initially struggled to acquire work, but was ultimately cast in , which co-starred future guest actor . Her career took off, and more roles began to pour in, not just for films, but for television as well.
On film, Hartley went on to co-star in (with Meg Wyllie), (1969, co-starring Nancy Kovack), (1972, with John Fiedler), (1972, co-starring Ed Lauter, William Lucking, and James B. Sikking), (1988, co-starring Joanna Cassidy and Winona Ryder), and (1992, with Erick Avari), among a few others. However, Hartley's greatest success was undoubtedly on television, where she has accumulated over a hundred credits.
Early in her career, Hartley made guest appearances on such popular TV westerns as Gunsmoke, The Virginian, Death Valley Days, and Bonanza. In 1964, she appeared in the episode of The Twilight Zone entitled "The Long Morrow" along with Robert Lansing. During the 1965-66 TV season, she was a regular on , and from 1966 through '67, she starred with in the short-lived sitcom The Hero. In 1971, Hartley co-starred with Gary Lockwood in an unsold pilot for . And in 1973, four years after her appearance on Star Trek, that show's creator, Gene Roddenberry, had Hartley cast in yet another pilot for and co-starring fellow Original Series alumni Majel Barrett, Ted Cassidy, and Percy Rodriguez. Unfortunately, this series did not sell either. (In a humorous reference to the fact that Hartley was forbidden by the network censors to show her belly button on Star Trek, Roddenberry gave her two belly buttons for Genesis II.)
Hartley continued with her TV career, appearing on The Bob Newhart Show, (two episodes, one with Clint Howard, another with Robert Foxworth, Steve Sandor, Peter Mark Richman, and written by Dorothy Fontana), (starring Lee Meriwether and also guest-starring Terri Garr and William Sargent), (starring Diana Muldaur and Ken Lynch), , and (with David Ogden Stiers), among others. In 1977, she appeared (along with Arthur Batanides, Robert Brown, Stewart Moss, Bill Quinn, and James B. Sikking) in the TV movie The Last Hurrah, receiving her first Emmy Award nomination. A guest starring role in the first episode of the second season of the following year earned her a second Emmy nomination and her first win. A 1979 appearance on also earned her an Emmy Award nomination, as well as some unwanted press, as her shared kiss with co-star was photographed and sensationalized by the tabloids. This led to the rumor that Hartley and Garner were a couple, a rumor initially fueled by their earlier chemistry in a series of Polaroid commercials.
Hartley also received Emmy nominations for her performance in (co-starring Henry Gibson and John Schuck) and for her starring role in the 1983 TV drama M.A.D.D.: Mothers Against Drunk Driving (with Nicholas Coster, David Huddleston, William Lucking, Bert Remsen, and John Rubinstein). She earned yet another Emmy nomination for her role on . She also played in "Big Jesse" in Cimarron Strip in 1967.
From 1990 through 1991, Hartley co-starred with Wallace Langham, Phil Morris, Eric Pierpoint, and Harris Yulin on Later TV credits include guest spots on , (starring Lea Thompson and Amy Pietz), , , , and Dirt.
Hartley is married to Jerry Sroka, who played Laxeth in the second season episode .
== Other Trek connections ==
Additional projects in which Hartley worked with other Star Trek alumni include:
*The F.B.I. episode "The Impersonator" (1970, with Marj Dusay and Charles Macaulay)
*Gunsmoke episode "Phoenix" (1971, with Glenn Corbett)
*Cade's County episode "The Armageddon Contract" (1971, with William Shatner)
*Gunsmoke episode "The Judgement" (1972, with William Windom)
*The F.B.I. episode "The Double Play" (1973, with Robert Foxworth)
*Rainy Day (1978 film, with Don Keefer)
*One Terrific Guy (1986 TV movie, with Laurence Luckinbill)
*Passion and Paradise (1989 TV movie, with Gwynyth Walsh)
== External links ==
* – official site
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* – pictures and trivia
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