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Kelly Cooper is a professional dancer who played a holosuite dancer in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine seventh season episode "Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang".
Cooper has performed in the television series Red Shoe Diaries (1994 episode Emily's Dance and 1996 episode The Forbidden Zone) and was a regular featured dancer in the comedy series Nikki (2000-2001, starring Nikki Cox).
Among her on-screen appearances are also the feature films North (1994, with Jason Alexander, Keone Young, Fritz Sperberg, Rosalind Chao, and darwyn Carson), the Golden Globe winner Man on the Moon (1999, with Vincent Schiavelli, Caroline Gibson, Tracey Walter, and fellow DS9 co-stars Jacqueline Case and Kelly Sheerin), the comedy What Women Want (2000), the sequel Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002, with Clint Howard, Angela Meryl, and Dan Warner), Gigli (2003), Shallow Ground (2004), and the television special Last Laugh '05 (2005, with Andy Dick, William Shatner, and Sarah Silverman).
