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Sierra Pecheur (born 20 September 1938; age 86) is a retired actress who played T'Pel/Selok in the Star Trek: The Next Generation fourth season episode "Data's Day".

With an acting career spanning nearly thirty years, her earliest known roles, under the name Sierra Bandit, were in Westerns, including an episode of the Ronnie Cox led series, Apple's Way (1974).

Later, she appeared in the television movies Summer of Fear (1978), Friendly Fire (1979, with Phillip Richard Allen and Warren Munson), The Oklahoma City Dolls (1981, with Robert Hooks and David Huddleston), Ghost Dancing (1983, with Bruce Davison, Bill Erwin, and Richard Lineback), The Child Is Mine (1985, with Chris Sarandon), The Betty Ford Story (1987, with Brian McNamara, Eric Menyuk, Kenneth Tigar, and Concetta Tomei), In the Best Interest of the Child (1990, with Ed Begley, Jr. and Kenneth Tigar), A Killer Among Us (1990, with Richard Riehle and Dwight Schultz), and And the Band Played On (1993, with Christopher Carroll, Reg E. Cathey, David Clennon, James Greene, Thomas Kopache, Lawrence Monoson, Saul Rubinek).

She can also be seen in a number of feature films, beginning with 3 Women (1977, co-starring Robert Fortier). She later appeared in Kalifornia (1993, starring Michelle Forbes), and Eye for an Eye (1996, featuring Armin Shimerman and Natalia Nogulich). Her other film credits include Bronco Billy (1980), Hard Country (1981, with Richard Lineback), and What Women Want (2000).

Television appearances include a 1982 episode of Hill Street Blues (with Barbara Bosson and James B. Sikking), NYPD Blue (1996, with Gordon Clapp, Sharon Lawrence, Neal McDonough, and Leland Orser), Quantum Leap (1990, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell, with Susan Diol and Norman Large)

Among her last known acting work are an episode of Touched by an Angel (2000) and the short drama Katherine (2002).

Today, Pecheur is working full time as sculptor, painter, and artist in the Los Angeles area.

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