Sharyn Hillyer (born 28 June 1942; age 82) is a former television actress who appeared as the Second Girl in the Star Trek: The Original Series second season episode "A Piece of the Action". She filmed her scene on Monday 6 November 1967 on location at Paramount Pictures' McFadden Street backlot.
Working in television from 1960 through 1970, she made multiple appearances on The Adventures of Ozzy & Harriet, Burke's Law, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and single appearances on shows like The Monkees and Get Smart. In addition, she had a role in Hud (1963, co-starring Whit Bissell) and was seen (albeit uncredited) in A Guide for the Married Man (1967, featuring Majel Barrett, Jeffrey Hunter, Jason Wingreen, and Lucille Ball).
Some of her appearances on The Man from U.N.C.L.E. were incorporated into the U.N.C.L.E feature films The Spy in the Green Hat and The Karate Killers.
She quit acting in 1970, went to college and earned a degree in psychology at California State University. She had been working as a marriage specialty therapist in Marina del Rey, California, but shifted to life coaching in recent years.
Other Trek connections[]
Additional projects in which Hillyer worked with other Star Trek alumni include:
- Burke's Law episode "The Girl That Loses" (1961, written by Harlan Ellison)
- Burke's Law episode "Who Killed the Kind Doctor?" (1963, with Susan Oliver and George Sawaya)
- Burke's Law episode "Who Killed the Strangler?" (1965, directed by Sam Freedle)
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. episode "The Project Deephole Affair" (1966, with Barbara Bouchet)
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. episode "The Sort of Do-It-Yourself Dreadful Affair" (1966, with Barry Atwater; written by Harlan Ellison)
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. episode "The Pop Art Affair" (1966, with Sabrina Scharf)
- The Rounders episode "The Scavenger Hunt" (1966) with Jason Wingreen and Walker Edmiston
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. episode "The Off-Broadway Affair" (1966, with Dick Crockett)
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. episode "The Concrete Overcoat Affair: Part 1" (1966, with Elisha Cook; directed by Joseph Sargent; teleplay by Peter Allan Fields)
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. episode "The My Friend the Gorilla Affair" (1966, with Percy Rodriguez; directed by Alexander Singer)
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. episode "The Pieces of Fate Affair" (1967, with Theo Marcuse and Charles Seel; written by Harlan Ellison)
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. episode "The When in Rome Affair" (1967, with Sid Haig)
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. episode "The Five Daughters Affair: Part 1" (1967, with Dick Crockett, Kim Darby, Jill Ireland, Irene Tsu, Jason Wingreen, and Grant Woods)
- Mannix episode "Turn Every Stone" (1967, with John Crawford; directed by John Meredyth Lucas)
- Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. episode "All You Need Is One Good Break" (1968, with Ken Lynch and George Sawaya)