Laura Banks

Laura Banks is the actress and author who portrayed Khan's navigator in . As an extra, she received no credit for her performance. 
Banks was born in Kansas City, Kansas. Her great-uncle was the late Hollywood actor , which made her a distant relative to actor John Drew Barrymore. She started her career as a stand-up comedian and toured through the country along comedians such as Whoopi Goldberg.
She had supporting roles in (1984, starring William Shatner and with James Darren), in (1985), (1987), the adventure movie Retreads (1988), and the comedy Hexed (1993, with Robin Curtis and stunts by Michael Cassidy and Jennifer Watson-Johnston).
Retired from her acting career, Banks wrote, starred in, and served as executive producer for the 2002 documentary The Manhattan Dating Project. She was interviewed for talk shows and news programs such as Gooday LA, Gooday NY, and ABC World News and released the novels Love Online, Breaking the Rules, and Embracing Your Big Fat Ass (2008). Banks was also the voice for the National Basketball Association, worked as a radio host, is the co-owner of the company Targeted Nutritionals since 2000, and is working as a professional astrologer and author.
She has written a book that touches on her Star Trek experience, among other things, entitled The Wrath of Blonde: (The Making of Star Trek II, and Other Wild Hollywood Adventures as an Amazon in Outerspace).
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