(written from a Production point of view)
Kathleen Wirt played a female aphasia victim in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine first season episode "Babel".
Wirt made her first acting appearance in Foxfire Light, a 1982 film starring Leslie Nielsen and Tippi Hedren. In her first television appearance, she played a Gucci saleslady on Miss Piggy's Hollywood. She then guest starred on A Different World in the episode "Honeymoon in L.A.: Part 2". Fellow DS9 guest stars Kenneth Mars and Bumper Robinson also starred in the episode, as did Vince Howard. Wirt also appeared in the 2000 movie Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV. in addition, she co-starred with another DS9 alum, Richard Ryder, in the Playboy 360 short film Love In Focus. Wirt and Ryder reprised their characters for Playboy two years later, playing the same bickering married couple in Honeymoon Suite.
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