Antoinette Bower

Antoinette Bower is the German-born British actress who played in the second season episode . She filmed her scenes between Friday and Wednesday at Desilu Stage 8.
She was born in Baden-Baden, Germany to an English father and a German mother, and grew up in London, Vienna, and Monte Carlo. After graduating in London, she landed a job as a field language supervisor for the International Refugee Organization (IRO), operating in West Germany. In 1953, soon after the IRO was discontinued, Bower relocated to Canada where she worked as copy writer and disc jockey for a small town radio station.
She soon got employed by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) radio and television in Toronto, and eventually ventured into acting, appearing in several live television shows and theatre productions. In 1959, after getting a guest role on American television, she decided to move to Los Angeles permanently and pursue a career in Hollywood.
She has many television guest roles to her credit – from 1959 to the 1980s, she amassed almost ninety appearances on such programs as (with Frank Overton, Bill Zuckert, and Monty O'Grady), The Twilight Zone, (with Julie Parrish, Jon Lormer, Malachi Throne, and George Murdock, directed by Harvey Hart), (with Dallas Mitchell, Bill Erwin, and Peter Marko, written and directed by John Meredyth Lucas), (with Blaisdell Makee and Gene Lyons), (with Jason Evers, Robert Hitchcock, Monty O'Grady, Shep Houghton, and Mark Russell), Mission: Impossible (with Leonard Nimoy, Joseph Ruskin, Percy Rodriguez, Warren Stevens, Sid Haig, Gregory Sierra, Alfred Ryder, Arthur Batanides, Robert Sampson, John Arndt, Eli Behar, George Sawaya, Nick Borgani, and Shep Houghton, directed by Marvin Chomsky and Murray Golden), (with Michael Strong and Bill Zuckert), (with Tige Andrews, Andrew Robinson, and Mark Russell), and (with William Windom).
She has also starred in many made-for-television movies, including 1971's , with Michael Bell, directed by Corey Allen, 1984's , with Christopher Lloyd and Michael Pataki.
In 1983, she co-starred with Philip Anglim, John de Lancie, Richard Kiley, Christopher Plummer, Jean Simmons, and Meg Wyllie in . And, from 1990 through 1992, she was a regular on .
She also built a portfolio of supporting roles in feature films, making her debut with an uncredited role in (1962, with Mike Dugan and Torin Thatcher). She followed this with yet another uncredited appearance in (1971), alongside William Windom, Pamelyn Ferdin, and Lilyan Chauvin. She later had a supporting role in (1980), directed by Paul Lynch. Her other films include (1984, with John Glover) and (1986, with Joanna Cassidy, Andrea Martin, and Bruce McGill).
Star Trek assistant director Charles Washburn, in an interview, declared her the most professional actress with whom he had worked on the series.
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