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Roberta Storm (28 June 193428 February 2006; age 71) was an actress who appeared as a holographic nightclub patron in Star Trek: First Contact. She was one of the 120 background performers for the 1940s nightclub scenes who filmed their scenes between Wednesday 1 May 1996 and Friday 3 May 1996 on location at the Fred Harvey Restaurant at Union Station in Downtown Los Angeles.

Once married, she was also known as Roberta Robson. A member of the Screen Extras Guild and the Screen Actors Guild, Storm can be seen as party guest, restaurant patron or banquet attendee in film and television between the 1970s and the early 2000s. She also worked as hand model and commercial actress and was a member of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and the Actors' Equity Association.

In the 1970s, Storm received screen credits for her work on Captains and the Kings (1976, with Harvey Jason) and The French Atlantic Affair (1979, with Michelle Phillips, John Rubinstein, Lance LeGault, William Lucking, Nehemiah Persoff, Dennis Howard, Harvey Jason, Bruce French, Jean-Paul Vignon, Gwen Van Dam, Erik Holland, Lloyd Kino and Rod Loomis). She also worked as an extra in episodes of McMillan & Wife (1971 & 1974, with John Schuck, Kenneth Mars, David Huddleston, Paul Sorensen, Julie Johnson, Morgan Woodward, Walt Davis, George Sawaya, David Ross, Lee Allen, Buzz Barbee, Frieda Rentie and Max Wagner) and Hart to Hart (1979, with Eugene Roche, Jack Perkins, Shirley Anthony, John Blower, Celeste Cartier, Bob Davis, Peter Eastman and Marvin Smith).

Following another screen credit in Seems Like Old Times (1980, with Marc Alaimo, Bill Zuckert, Shirley Anthony, John Blower and Charlie Brill), Storm worked as background actress on the comedy Two of a Kind (1983), Against All Odds (1984), City Heat (1984), Jagged Edge (1985), The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988), and Worth Winning (1989).

She was also a regular background performer on Dynasty (1982-89, 30 episodes), Falcon Crest (1983-90, 33 episodes), The Colbys (1985-87, 14 episodes), and Knots Landing (1985-91, 9 episodes). Other television appearances include episodes of Flamingo Road (1981, starring John Beck and Stella Stevens, with Sharon Acker, Shirley Anthony, Robert Buckingham, Robert Hitchcock and Walter Smith), Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1983-84, starring Kate Jackson, with Morgan Woodward, Nick Borgani, Jimmy Fields, Anthony Gordon, Paul Lewis, Tony Roque, George Sasaki, Debra Dilley, John Staible, Roger Trantham, Geoff Vanderstock, Walter Gotell, Raymond Singer, Shirley Blackwell, John Blower, Robert Buckingham, Amy Cook, Peter Eastman, Robert Hitchcock, Tom Morga, Lemuel Perry, Tony Rocco, Kenny Studer, Matthew Faison, Buzz Barbee, Ronn Cragg, Josephine Parra, Gayle Frank, Frieda Rentie, Evans Ricciardi, Joel Schultz and Arthur Tovey), Berrenger's (1985, with Claudia Christian, Jeff Conaway, Leslie Hope, Liam Sullivan, Spice Williams, David Channell, Devron Conrad, Gayle Frank, Kevin G. Tracey, Roger Trantham, Buzz Barbee, Peter Eastman, Robert Hitchcock, Neal Kaz and Tony Rocco), Blacke's Magic (1986, with Robert Hooks, Martin Landau, Lilyan Chauvin, Shirley Blackwell, Robert Buckingham, Peter Eastman, Laura Grayson, Evans Ricciardi, Dean Rubin and Geoff Vanderstock), Matlock (1986, with Michael Durrell, Shirley Blackwell, Bruce Dobos, Robert Lombardo and Mary Mascari), L.A. Law (1986, with Corbin Bernsen, David Andrews, Anne Haney, Matthew Faison, Lou Elias, Bill Baker, Jay Crimp, Peter Eastman, Ivonne Perez, Eva Mar Pamintuan, Joel Schultz, Walter Smith and Kai J. Wong), The Tracey Ullman Show (1988, with Faith Burton, Rosemarie Castellano and Larry Clardy), and Cheers (1988, with Kirstie Alley, Kelsey Grammer, Lee Allen, Michael Braveheart, Robert Buckingham, Norman Fessler, Lemuel Perry, Mark Reilly, Rebecca Soladay, Geoff Vanderstock and Michael Wilkinson).

In the 1990s, Storm was credited for her role of the secretary in Color of Night (1994, with Scott Bakula, Brad Dourif, Jeff Corey, Eriq La Salle, Erick Avari, Lena Banks, Gary Baxley and Terry Jackson) and had a featured part as Academy Award nominee Ellen Pearson in The Bodyguard (1992). She can also be seen in the background of Pretty Woman (1990), Taking Care of Business (1990), Kindergarten Cop (1990), The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991), Dave (1993), The Beverly Hillbillies (1993), Fearless (1993), the television movie Gloria Vane (1993), True Lies (1994), Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994), The American President (1995).

She also worked on Dynasty: The Reunion (1991, with Robin Sachs, Joan Collins, Tony Jay, Evelyn Guerrero, Jeff O'Haco, Ray Reinhardt, Keone Young, Renna Bogdanowicz, Bill Blair, Robert Buckingham, Faith Burton, David Channell, Phil Culotta, Debbie David, Bruce Dobos, Peter Eastman, Michael Echols, Melanie Hathorn, Steve Hershon, Wanda Norman, Debra Dilley and Curt Truman) and appeared in three episodes of The Nanny (1993-94, with Daniel Davis, Larry Guthrie, Linda Harcharic, Al Kroft, Paul Lewis, Rudy Morrison, Eva Mar Pamintuan, Jim Portnoy, Thomas Dekker, Michael Bailous, Kelly Burris, Robert Cox, Lou DeGrado, Lee Faranda, Jasmine Gagnier, Suzanne Lodge, Anne Woodberry, Edward Penn and Susan Sanders).

Among her later work were background roles in Cybill (1997, with Michael Wilkinson), Deep Impact (1998, with James Cromwell, Gary Werntz, Mark Moses, Denise Crosby, Tucker Smallwood, Merrin Dungey, Ellen Bry, Concetta Tomei, Kurtwood Smith, Christopher Darga, Cullen Chambers, Charles S. Chun, Devron Conrad, Daphney Dameraux, Betty Hankins, Richard Penn, Heather Rattray, Raul Reformina, Mic Rodgers, Fran Severini, Walter Smith, Darryl Stewart and Michael Wajacs), and Hanging Up (2000, with Bob Kirsh, Ethan Dampf, Christina Bergstrom, Faith Burton, Janet Dey, Al Goto, Jeff Imada, Susan McNabb and Wanda Norman).

Storm passed away on 28 February 2006 at the age of 71.

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