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Lavelle Roby (born 17 March 1941; age 84) is an actress who appeared as a Starfleet vice admiral in the Star Trek: Voyager second season episode "Non Sequitur". She received no credit for this appearance but was identified by the call sheet where she was misspelled as Lavelle Toby. Roby filmed her scenes on Monday 24 July 1995 on Paramount Stage 9.

Roby came to Los Angeles in 1960 to attend UCLA and has been working as an actress for over five decades since. Among her earlier roles are supporting roles in Finders Keepers, Lovers Weepers! (1968), the drama House of Zodiac (1969), Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970, with Charles Napier, Frank Corsentino, and Garth Pillsbury), Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971), the action film The Peace Killers (1971, with Paul Prokop and Gary Morgan), the drama Stand Up and Be Counted (1972, with Gary Lockwood, Madlyn Rhue, Michael Ansara, Carolyne Barry, Donna Garrett, and Irene Tsu), Black Gunn (1972, with William Campbell, Bernie Casey, Julian Christopher, and Kate Woodville), and The Laughing Policeman (1973, with Anthony Zerbe, Joanna Cassidy, Gregory Sierra, and Wayne Grace).

She was featured in episodes of Get Smart (1968), It Takes a Thief (1969, with Nancy Kovack, Charles Dierkop, Malachi Throne, and Tania Lemani), Ironside (1970, starring Barbara Anderson and Gene Lyons and executive produced by Cy Chermak), Here's Lucy (1970, starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, with Francine Pyne), The F.B.I. (1972, with Dean Stockwell and Darleen Carr), Barnaby Jones (1973, with Lee Meriwether and Sharon Acker), Executive Suit (1976, starring Mitchell Ryan, Sharon Acker and Leigh J. McCloskey, with Richard Cox, Paul Lambert, Byron Morrow, Scott Marlowe, Madlyn Rhue, Percy Rodriguez and William Smithers), Barney Miller (1975 & 1976, with Gregory Sierra, Ron Glass, Rosana DeSoto, and Robert Costanzo), and Insight (1978, written by Richard Beymer and directed by Michael Ray Rhodes).

Roby portrayed Mary Anne Creed in Rocky (1976, featuring Michael Dorn, Jeri McBride, and Arthur Tovey). Further film work include Love at First Bite (1979, with Barry Gordon, Michael Pataki, Robert Ellenstein, and Whitney Rydbeck), Joni (1979, with Bert Remsen, Richard Lineback, Jeff Austin, Stephen Parr, Sean Morgan, and Gwen Van Dam), Blood Beach (1980, with Marianna Hill, Stefan Gierasch, Bobby Bass, Ian Abercrombie, and Rosie Malek-Yonan), The Formula (1980, with Richard Lynch, Ike Eisenmann, and Kavi Raz), Reform School Girls (1986, with Don Pugsley), Nuts (1987, with Dakin Matthews, Elizabeth Hoffman, Castulo Guerra, Dana Dru Evenson, Bruce Barbour, and Tina Lifford), and Touch Me (1997, with Stephen Macht and Jenette Goldstein).

She guest-starred in episodes of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1981, with Erin Gray, Barbara Luna, Lance LeGault, David Opatoshu, Sid Haig, and Felix Silla), Quincy, M.E. (1981, with Garry Walberg, John S. Ragin, Robert Ito, Henry Darrow, and Paul Lambert), Darkroom (1981), Hardcastle and McCormick (1984, with Brian Keith, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Garry Walberg, and Robert O'Reilly), Hotel (1984, with Michael Spound, Lou Elias, and Melinda Culea and directed by Kim Friedman), Simon & Simon (1984 & 1985, with Robin Gammell, Allan Graf, Steve Whittaker, Mary Carver, and William Windom), Murder, She Wrote (1985, with Susan Oliver), Blacke's Magic (1986, with Morgan Woodward and Michael Rider), Dynasty (1986 and 1988, with Joan Collins, David Spielberg, and Daniel Davis), Knots Landing (1990, with Michelle Phillips and Paul Nakauchi), Equal Justice (1991, starring Joe Morton, with Jennifer S. Parsons), Veronica Clare (1991, starring Christina Pickles, with Clifton Collins, Jr., Kaitlin Hopkins, and Stephen Markle), The Practice (1998, with Jacqueline Schultz, Clayton Landey, and Tina Lifford), and The Shield (2002, with Michael Jace, Jay Karnes, Benito Martinez, and Geoff Meed).

Later projects include Spider's Web (2002, with George Murdock), the short comedy The Sunday Morning Stripper (2003), the short drama Blue Eyes (2006), voice work on Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight (2010, along with Iona Morris, Tim de Zarn, James Horan, Wayne Grace, Robert Costanzo, Brian George, Carlos Ferro, Keith Szarabajka, Michelle C. Bonilla, and Phil Morris), iCarly (2011), Freaks of Nature (2015, with Rachael Harris, Pat Healy, Momo Yashima, Derek Mears, and Solomon Burke, Jr.), the short drama Hard World for Small Things (2016), the horror film VooDoo (2017), and the thriller Stranger's Relative (2017).

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