Kristin Bauer

Kristin Bauer van Straten is the actress who played Lieutenant Laneth in the fourth season episode . , Bauer worked as background actress, Quark's blonde fantasy woman, in the first season episode .
She was born and raised in Wisconsin, with a horseman and gun collector for a father and a charity-involved housewife for a mother. In the early 1990s, she moved to Los Angeles and began acting after studying fine arts in New York City. In addition to acting, she studies and collects art and is an artist in her own right.
Some of her early acting work includes guest appearances on the television shows (starring Corbin Bernsen and Larry Drake), (starring Teri Hatcher, with John Fleck and J.D. Cullum), and (1994, with Eric Pierpoint). In 1995, she had a recurring role on the series Pointman, working with the likes of Jefrey Alan Chandler, Michael Ensign, and Lawrence Tierney. She went on to appear on such popular shows as (starring Jason Alexander), Everybody Loves Raymond, (1998, starring Jayne Brook, with Clyde Kusatsu), the pilot episode of Two and a Half Men, (with David Andrews, Ivar Brogger, Zoe McLellan, and Tom Wright), (starring Paul Guilfoyle, Wallace Langham and Liz Vassey, with Jeffrey Nordling), and (starring Teri Hatcher and Alfre Woodard).
In 2004, she guest-starred in starring Miguel Ferrer and Jerry O'Connell, with Denise Crosby, Zach Grenier, Eric Pierpoint, and Patti Yasutake. She would reprise her role from this episode two years later in an episode with Wallace Shawn. Between these, however, she appeared in an episode of , starring William Shatner and René Auberjonois.
During the 1995-96 TV season, Bauer was a regular on The Crew, a FOX series co-starring guest actor Charles Esten. In 1997, she starred in the ABC series Total Security with Tony Plana and from 2000 through 2003 she starred with Paul Sorvino and Titus Welliver in CBS' . She later appeared on NBC's (2002-03). She also voiced the character of Mera on the Justice League animated series and filmed an unsold pilot for UPN called Crazy, working alongside Chris Sarandon.
She appeared in her first feature film in 1995, with a supporting role in , co-starring Roger Aaron Brown. Her subsequent film credits include Glory Days (1996, co-starring John Rhys-Davies and Sean Whalen), Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion (1997), and (2004, with Amy Hill and Missi Pyle).
Between 2008 and 2014, Bauer appeared in the recurring role of Pam in , also featuring William Schallert, Michelle Forbes, and John Billingsley in recurring roles.
In 2011 and 2012 she appeared in as the wicked Fairy Godmother "Maleficent".
==Other Trek connections==
*Columbo: Undercover (1994 TV movie) with Ed Begley, Jr.; directed by Vincent McEveety
* (1997. with Megan Cole)
* (1998, starring Malcolm McDowell and Mädchen Amick, with Larry Drake
* (2000, with Stanley Kamel and John Savage)
*Hollywood Palms (2001 film) with Matt Winston
*Boomtown pilot (2001) with Neal McDonough
*Dr. Vegas pilot (2004) with Jeff Kober
* (2005, with Andy Dick)
* (2005, with John Carroll Lynch and Todd Waring)
== External links==
* – official site
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