Teda Bracci (30 September 1946 – 24 February 2020; age 73) was an actress and singer who appeared as a background performer in three episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Her trousers worn in "Frame of Mind" were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay where her name was misspelled as Teda Gracci. The trousers were later worn by Norman Large in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine first season episode "Duet". [1](X)
Born as Teda Marie Bracci in Los Angeles, California, USA, she attended Woodside High School in Woodside, Los Angeles. In the late 1960s and early 1970s she performed in several clubs and bars as part of the L.A. Sunset Strip rock music scene. In the more recent years she released the album "The Lost Tapes". She also originated the role of Jeanie in the Los Angeles premiere of the musical "Hair". In the early 1980s she married singer Dusty Springfield but the relationship only lasted a short time. [2]
As an actress, Bracci appeared in several 1970s films including R.P.M. (1970, with Gary Lockwood, Paul Winfield, Graham Jarvis, and John McLiam), C.C. and Company (1970), The Big Bird Cage (1972), The Centerfold Girls (1974, with Andrew Prine), The Trial of Billy Jack (1974, with George Aguilar), The World's Greatest Lover (1977, with Nick Dimitri and David Huddleston), the thriller Human Experiments (1979) as well as in an episode of Police Woman (1975, with Charles Dierkop and Dick Crockett).
Further appearances include the comedy The Last Married Couple in America (1980, with Stewart Moss), Xanadu (1980, with James Sloyan), Smokey Bites the Dust (1981, with Dick Miller, Nancy Parsons, and Gene LeBell), Frances (1982, with Jonathan Banks, Anne Haney, Biff Yeager, Keone Young, and J. Michael Flynn), Hocus Pocus (1993, with Charles Rocket, Doug Jones and Jason Marsden), the short drama The Chosen One (1995, with Michelle Forbes and Jessie Lawrence Ferguson), Barb Wire (1996, with Ron Balicki, Shelly Desai, Clint Howard, Diana Lee Inosanto, Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Jr., Peewee Piemonte, Lou Simon, Patti Tippo, Nicholas Worth, and Tracee Lee Cocco), Men in Black II (2002, with Jack Kehler, Doug Jones, Michael Bailey Smith, Mary Stein, Kevin Grevioux, Derek Mears, Rick Avery, Gene LeBell, Bart Mixon, and Shannon Watson), and Spider-Man 2 (2004, with Kirsten Dunst, Donna Murphy, Daniel Dae Kim, Kelly Connell, Tim Storms, Bill E. Rogers, Jill Sayre, Calvin Dean, and Rachelle Roderick).
Bracci worked as background and featured performer on the television series Fame, Family Matters, Unsolved Mysteries, Hull High (1990), Love and Marriage, The Jeff Foxworthy Show, Courthouse, ER, Babylon 5, Profiler, and Chicago Hope (1999, starring Jayne Brook, with Ellen Bry, Leslie Hope, Boris Krutonog, and Gail Strickland).