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Frieda Rentie (born 29 December 1932; age 91) is an actress who played an Enterprise crewmember throughout the first to third seasons of Star Trek: The Original Series. As a background performer, she received no credit for her role.

Rentie is the younger sister of actresses Susie Garrett and Marla Gibbs. Her career spans from the late-1950s to the late-1980s, consisting mostly of uncredited bit and background roles on film and television.

Her feature film appearances include South Pacific (1958, with Ray Walston, France Nuyen, and Joseph Paz), I Want to Live! (1958, with Theodore Bikel, Jon Lormer, and Noble Chissell, directed by Robert Wise), How to Murder Your Wife (1965, with Al Cavens, Monty O'Grady, and Paul Power), Hotel (1967, with Alfred Ryder, Ken Lynch, Davis Roberts, David Armstrong, Jack Donner, Robert Hitchcock, Vince Howard, Monty O'Grady, and Angelique Pettyjohn), The Poseidon Adventure (1972, with John Crawford, Phil Adams, Bill Catching, Dick Durock, Monty O'Grady, Loren Janes, Victor Paul, Elizabeth Rogers, David Sharpe, George Sawaya, Paul Stader, and Tom Steele), Meteor (1979, with Brian Keith, Joseph Campanella, Michael Zaslow, Bibi Besch, Clyde Kusatsu, Bill Couch, Sr., and Robert Hitchcock), and Airplane II: The Sequel (1982, with William Shatner, John Vernon, Bruce French, Marcy Lafferty, David Paymer, Louise Sorel, Earl Boen, and Gregory Itzin).

On television, she can be seen in series like The Twilight Zone (with Warren Stevens, Joan Marshall, and Joseph Mell), Batman (with Frank Gorshin, Shep Houghton, and Monty O'Grady, directed by Robert Butler), The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (with Arthur Batanides, Jill Ireland, Kim Darby, Theo Marcuse, Charles Seel, Sharyn Hillyer, Adam Roarke, Bob Hoy, Benjie Bancroft, George Sawaya, Carey Loftin, Robert Strong, Dick Crockett, Paul Baxley, Tom Anfinsen, and Troy Melton), Get Smart (with Eddie Hice), The Mod Squad (with Clarence Williams III, Tige Andrews, Yvonne Craig, directed by Gene Nelson), The Bob Newhart Show (with Patricia Smith and Dick Cherney), Search (with Jay Robinson, Diana Muldaur, and Max Kleven, directed by Ralph Senensky), Kolchak: The Night Stalker (with Benjie Bancroft), Starsky & Hutch (starring David Soul, featuring Gilbert Green and Graham Jarvis), Columbo (with Joanne Linville and Mariette Hartley), Wonder Woman (with Ed Begley, Jr.), Kojak (with Mark Russell and Benjie Bancroft), The Rockford Files (with René Auberjonois, Monty O'Grady and George Sawaya, directed by Reza Badiyi), Dynasty (1982, with Joan Collins, Lee Bergere, John Crawford, Elizabeth Lindsey, and George Sasaki), Hotel (1984, with Michael Spound, Sally Kellerman, Mitchell Ryan, Lloyd Haynes, Ken Olandt, and Danny Nero), and The Colbys (1986, with Stephanie Beacham, Tracy Scoggins, Ricardo Montalban, Suzanne Lodge, Joel Marston, Roger Trantham, and Tim McCormack).

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