Judy Lea (born September 1964; age 61) is a former actress who worked as background actress on several episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Also known as Judy Lea Lani, she is the sister of makeup artist Kathleen Karridene and since 1996 the sister-in-law of actor Don "The Dragon" Wilson.
Background work includes appearances as a bar patron in the Cheers episodes "Call Me, Irresponsible" (1989, with Kirstie Alley, Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth, Lee Allen, Don Bennett, Jay Crimp, Larry Guthrie, Audrianne Norwood, Joseph Paz, and Rebecca Soladay), "Sisterly Love" (1989, with Kirstie Alley, Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth, Lee Allen, Robert Buckingham, B.K. Byron, Jay Crimp, Peter Eastman, Joseph Paz, Lemuel Perry, John Rice, and Rebecca Soladay), "Bar Wars III: The Return of Tecumseh" (1990, with Kirstie Alley, Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth, Don Bennett, Nyra Crenshaw, Debbie David, Melba Gonzalez, Ree Kai, Alex Landi, Ivonne Perez, Keith Rayve, Joycelyn Robinson, Mark Watson, Ilona Wilson, Natalie Wood, and Alex Zimmerman), "Cheers Has Chili" (1991, with Kirstie Alley, Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth, Don Bennett, Debbie David, Bruce Dobos, Randy James, Robert Lombardo, Ray Petersen, Keith Rayve, and Rebecca Soladay), and "Rebecca's Lover... Not" (1992, with Kirstie Alley, Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth, Paul Willson, Joel Fredericks, Don Bennett, Gerard David, Jr., Brian Demonbreun, Holiday Freeman, Alan Hugo, James Do Pearson, and Mark Watson), as a bystander in Chinatown in the action drama Hard to Kill (1990, with William Sadler, Branscombe Richmond, Buddy Joe Hooker, Barbara Townsend, Philip Weyland, Al Goto, Bernie Bielawski, Kenny Endoso, Jeff Imada, Ray Petersen, Jim Painter, Shirley Blackwell, Kenny Studer, and Bruce Dobos), and as a shopper in the drama Pretty Woman (1990, with Jason Alexander, Elinor Donahue, Abdul Salaam El Razzac, Larry Hankin, Dey Young, Norman Large, Rick Avery, Joni Avery, Nils Nichols, Evans Ricciardi, Gene Poe, Sherry O'Keefe, Robert Buckingham, Lynda Robertson, Roger Trantham, Alex Landi, Shirley Blackwell, Roberta Storm, Shirley Anthony, Lee Allen, Bob Davis, Joel Schultz, Anthony Gordon, Michael Wilkinson, Larry Humburger, Walter Smith, Buzz Barbee, Rudy Morrison, Larry Guthrie, Mark Lentry, Peter Eastman, Lisa Christy, Richard Sarstedt, Michael Zurich, Joel Marston, and John Hugh McKnight).
Lea received credit for her role as bartender and also appeared as a street passerby in the action comedy Another 48 Hrs. (1990, with Eddie Murphy, Kevin Tighe, Ed O'Ross, David Anthony Marshall, Bernie Casey, Page Leong, Allan Graf, Mark Phelan, Biff Yeager, Rex Pierson, Nanci Rogers, Benjamin W.S. Lum, Victor Brandt, Don Bennett, Larry Clardy, Carrie Crain, Gene Cross, James Davison, Shauna O'Brien, Mark Riccardi, Joel Shultz, Nick Trisko, Ilona Wilson, and Patricia Tallman).
Further featured roles in productions starring her brother-in-law Don Wilson include the science fiction film Cyber Tracker (1994, with Stacie Foster, Joseph Ruskin, Dana Sparks, Kevin Carr, and Dennis Madalone), the action thriller Red Sun Rising (1994, with Terry Farrell, Edward Laurence Albert, James Lew, Leonard O. Turner, and Dennis Keiffer), the horror film Night Hunter (1996, with Melanie Smith, Nicholas Guest, Michael Cavanaugh, James Lew, Christopher Aguilar, and Merritt Yohnka), and the action film Redemption (2002, with Chuck Borden, Steven Vincent Leigh, Cole McKay, Laurence Rosenthal, Lou Simon, and Tim Sitarz).
In addition, Lea worked as casting director on the science fiction film Sci-Fighter (2004) and the action film Crooked (2006, with Fred Williamson and Chuck Borden).
Star Trek appearances[]
TNG: "The Nth Degree", "A Matter Of Time", "Hero Worship", "The Next Phase", "Lessons", "The Chase", "Timescape", "The Pegasus", "Genesis"
(uncredited)
External links[]
- Judy Lea at the Internet Movie Database
- Judy Lea at Facebook