Grace Lee Whitney

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1930-04-01 (85 years old)

Deathday

2015-05-01

Place of Birth

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Grace Lee Whitney

Biography

Grace Lee Whitney (April 1, 1930 - May 1, 2015) was an American actress and singer, best known for her role as Janice Rand on the original Star Trek television series and subsequent Star Trek films. Born Mary Ann Chase, she was adopted by the Whitney family, who changed her name to Grace Elaine. She started her entertainment career as a "girl singer" on Detroit's WJR radio at the age of fourteen. After she left home, she began to call herself Lee Whitney, eventually becoming known as Grace Lee Whitney. In her late teens, she moved to Chicago where she opened in nightclubs for Billie Holiday and Buddy Rich, and toured with the Spike Jones and...

Acting

1979

1991

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

as Excelsior Communications Officer (Janice Rand)

1968

1963

1950

1962

A Public Affair

as Tracey Phillips

1984

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

as Commander Janice Rand (Woman in Cafeteria)

1954

Top Banana

as Miss Holland (uncredited)

1967

Ironside

as Stripper (uncredited)

1959

Some Like It Hot

as Rosella (uncredited)

2011

2007

1961

Pocketful of Miracles

as Queenie's Broad (uncredited)

1986

1963

1958

The Naked and the Dead

as Girl in Dream Sequence

1963

Critic's Choice

as Minor Role

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