Carolyn Seymour (born 6 November 1947; age 77) is a British actress who appeared in five Star Trek television episodes as four characters across two spin-off series.
She filmed her scenes for "First Contact" between Monday 3 December 1990 and Thursday 6 December 1990 as well as Monday 10 December 1990 and Tuesday 11 December 1990 on Paramount Stage 8, 9, and 16.
Born Carolyn von Benckendorf in Buckinghamshire to an Estonian father of Russian descent and an Irish mother, Seymour trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London and made her debut in British cinema in the early 1970s. She had been married to Hungarian-British director Peter Medak from 1973 to 1984 with whom she has two children.
Her early roles include the films Gumshoe (1971), Steptoe and Son (1971, with Barrie Ingham), The Ruling Class (1972, directed by her husband), and Yellow Dog (1973). She rose to fame in Survivors (1975) where she played the starring role of Abby Grant. However, she left the series after the first season due her disagreement with the producers. In 1977, she co-starred with Christopher Plummer in the Swedish thriller The Assignment, which also featured Walter Gotell.
She also guest-starred in an episode of Space: 1999 (starring Martin Landau and Nick Tate) and appeared in the films The Odd Job (1978), and The Bitch (1979, starring Joan Collins). The former two were also directed by Medak. In the early 1980s, she moved to Hollywood where she appeared in the 1981 comedy Zorro, the Gay Blade as the wife of Clive Revill, again directed by Medak.
In the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s, Seymour's screen credits mostly consisted of guest roles on numerous American television series, such as Family Ties, Remington Steele (starring Pierce Brosnan, with Mike Genovese), Magnum, P.I. (with June Chadwick), the reboot of The Twilight Zone, Tales from the Darkside (with Lawrence Tierney), Father Dowling Mysteries, The Flash, L.A. Law (starring Corbin Bernsen and Larry Drake, with Ray Buktenica, Tracey Walter, Kate Vernon, Beau Billingslea, and Jordan Lund), Chicago Hope (1994, starring Roxanne Hart, with Tony Carlin), Murder, She Wrote (with Ian Abercrombie, Pamela Kosh, and Mark Rolston), Red Shoe Diaries (with Cyia Batten), Silk Stalkings (with Charlie Brill), ER (starring Eriq La Salle, with Lily Mariye and Jefrey Alan Chandler), Judging Amy, and Malcolm in the Middle (with Deborah May).
Seymour appeared in four episodes of Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. She guested in an episode of the show's second season and then played Zoey, "the Evil Leaper" in three episodes of the fifth season, where she also acted alongside Rosana DeSoto. She also made a short, but significant, appearance in J. Michael Straczynski'sBabylon 5, starring Claudia Christian, Bill Mumy, and Patricia Tallman, with J. Patrick McCormack and Marjorie Monaghan as the Earth senator who helped to stop the destruction of Earth during Sheridan's war for Earth's freedom in the fourth season episode "Endgame" (Andreas Katsulas also starred on this series but did not appear in Seymour's episode.
Seymour also had roles in a number of TV movies such as The Last Ninja (1983, with Richard Lynch, John Larroquette, and Robin Gammell), Girls of the White Orchid (1983, with Keone Young and Jim Beaver), the unsold pilot Condor (1985, starring Ray Wise, with James Avery, Mario Roccuzzo, and Tony Epper), Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story (1987, with Bruce Davison), Blue Bayou (1990, with Bibi Besch and Alfre Woodard), and Reform School Girl (1994, with Bob Minor, Tara Strong, and Wendy Schaal).
Her film credits from this period are supporting roles in films like Mr. Mom (1983, starring Terri Garr, with Christopher Lloyd, Graham Jarvis, Derek McGrath, and Bruce French), Congo (1995, with Jay Caputo), Mortal Kombat Annihilation (1997, with Brian Thompson, Reiner Schöne, Musetta Vander, and Lance LeGault, photographed by Matthew F. Leonetti), Ablaze (2001), I Witness (2003, with Clifton Collins, Jr. and Wade Andrew Williams), and Hard Four (2007, with Ed Begley, Jr., Hamilton Camp, Ian Abercrombie, Willie Garson, Beverly Washburn and Michele Scarabelli).
Since the early and mid 2000s, Seymour has retired from on-screen acting and built a career as a voice actress. She did voice work for a large number of video games, including several Star Wars games (including Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, also featuring Raphael Sbarge), as well as voicing Doctor Chakwas in the Mass Effect series (which also featured Marina Sirtis, Michael Dorn, Armin Shimerman, and Dwight Schultz) and various characters from Dragon Age: Origins (which also featured Kate Mulgrew, Tim Russ, and Paul Eiding). Seymour also provided the voice of Myrrah in the first three Gears of War games.
