Ellen Geer

Ellen Ware Geer is the actress who played Kila Marr in the fifth season episode . Geer filmed her scenes between Thursday and Thursday on Paramount Stage 8, 9, and 16.
She is the daughter of fellow Next Generation guest star Herta Ware, and the mother of guest actress Willow Geer. Her costume was later worn by background actress Leslie McCasky in the fifth season episode and by Barbara J. Tarbuck in the first season episode before it was sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. 
Geer has enjoyed a long, distinguished career in film and television. She began her career appearing as a nun in the 1968 Richard Lester drama Petulia. This film also marked the first credited appearance by future Deep Space Nine star René Auberjonois. Geer followed this with an appearance in 1969's The Reivers with her actor father, Will Geer.
In 1971, Geer played the deceased wife of the lead character in Kotch, appearing throughout the movie in flashbacks. (Biff Elliot also appeared in this film.) That same year, she became a regular on The Jimmy Stewart Show (which aired until the following year) and had a supporting role in (which was photographed by John A. Alonzo and featured costumes by William Ware Theiss). In 1974, she starred in two films which she also wrote: Silence and Memory of Us. Both featured her father.
The remainder of the 1970s consisted primarily of guest appearances and made-for-TV movies. TV shows on which she appeared during this time included Barnaby Jones (two episodes, including one where she played the wife of Gary Lockwood; both starred Lee Meriwether), Police Story (with Glenn Corbett), Charlie's Angels (with Louise Sorel), (one episode with Marc Alaimo and later several episodes with Michael Dorn), and two episodes of Fantasy Island starring Ricardo Montalban (one episode also guest-starred John Fiedler). Her TV movie credits during this time included 1975's Babe (co-starring Byron Morrow and Meg Wyllie), (1976, co-starring Cliff DeYoung, Laurence Luckinbill, Phillip Richard Allen, Arthur Batanides, Peter Brocco, and Bill Quinn), and 1979's A Shining Season (with Ed Begley, Jr.). The only film on which she worked in the late 1970s was (1979).
Films that followed included (1983, with Dick Miller), (1983), (1985, co-starring Virginia Madsen, David Ogden Stiers, Kenneth Tigar, Ian Wolfe, and Jeff Corey), Lonely Hearts (1991, with mother Herta Ware, as well as Bibi Besch, Joanna Cassidy, Miriam Flynn, and Charles Napier), (1992), (1992, featuring Harris Yulin, Reg E. Cathey, Ann Magnuson and Vaughn Armstrong), (1996, with Brent Spiner and Richard Kiley), (1998, with Richard Riehle), and Criminal (2004). The remainder of her TV credits include guest appearances on , (with K Callan, Nicholas Coster, Jonathan Frakes, Robert Ito, Phillip Pine, and Garry Walberg), , The Practice, , , , and (with Randy Oglesby). She also had recurring roles on and (starring Ron Perlman).
Later credits include the recurring role of Lillian Sims in three episodes of (2007-2008, with Teri Hatcher, Brenda Strong, John Rosenfeld, J. Michael Flynn, Kevin Rahm, Ken Edling, and Arlo Hemphill), guest roles in (2009, with Kelvin Yu, Matt Malloy, and Rick Scarry), (2009, with Jude Ciccolella), Medium (2010, with Bruce Gray and Jenette Goldstein), and (2011) as well as the drama Montana Amazon (2011, with James G. MacDonald).
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