Theresa St. Clair (born 12 December) is the actress who started her Star Trek connection playing the first Vulcan female aboard Deep Space 9 in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine first season episode "The Nagus". She went on to portray recurring background characters for the following two years on Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Star Trek: Voyager. The hair department used her as a hair model and tested and created the Emmy Award winning hairstyles on her.
As an actress she had background parts in the television shows Cheers (1991, episodes "Pitch It Again, Sam" with Kirstie Alley, Kelsey Grammer, Henry Woronicz, Zachary Benjamin, Bruce Dobos, Lee Allen, Rebecca Soladay, Don Bennett, K. Uchizono, and Mikki Val, "Rat Girl" with Kirstie Alley, Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth, Paul Willson, Beth Toussaint, Lee Allen, Mark Reilly, Rebecca Soladay, Keith Rayve, Natalie Wood, Elliot Durant III, Buddy Daniels Friedman, Cooper, and Don Bennett, and "Baby Balk" with Kirstie Alley, Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth, Mark Reilly, Lee Allen, Don Bennett, Bruce Wright, Cooper, Jeremy Doyle, Joycelyn Robinson, Sissy Sessions, Elliot Durant III, and Randy James and 1992 episodes "Bar Wars VI: This Time It's for Real" with Kirstie Alley, Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth, Paul Willson, Don Bennett, Cullen Chambers, Allan Graf, Phil Lodwick, Bill Thomas Miller, and Mark Watson and "The King of Beers" with Kirstie Alley, Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth, Paul Willson, Cameron Thor, Mirron E. Willis, Mark Watson, Grace Harrell, Don Bennett, Gary Hunter, Robert Lombardo, Brian Demonbreun, Michael Prokopuk, and Robert Cox), Totally Hidden Video, Baywatch, Wings, Murder, She Wrote, and Johnny Bago (1993).
Her feature films appearances include the thriller Road House (1989, with Marshall R. Teague, Kevin Tighe, Michael Rider, Anthony De Longis, Tiny Ron, Patricia Tallman, Christopher Collins, Laura Albert, Dennis Ott, and Henry Kingi, Sr.), the action thriller The Last Boy Scout (1991, with Noble Willingham and Bruce McGill), the comedy sequel The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991, with Jacqueline Brookes, Anthony James, Tim O'Connor, Peter Mark Richman, Don Pugsley, Manny Perry, Alex Zimmerman, John Fleck, Robert Buckingham, Kaye Wade, Michael Stanhope, Thomas J. Booth, Michael Wilkinson, Sherry O'Keefe, Peter Eastman, Suzanne Lodge, Bruce Dobos, Lisa Nunziella, Deano Georgio, Rudy Morrison, Maria Doest, Allan Graf, Jane Austin, Natalie Wood, Jophery C. Brown, Sonia McDancer, Mary Peters, Jadie David, Clay Hodges, Don Pulford, Phil Adams, Bruce Barbour, Charlie Brewer, Bobby Burns, Phil Chong, Eugene Collier, Kerrie Cullen, Bud Davis, Donna Garrett, Al Goto, Shawn Lane, Vincent Mazzella, Jr., Dwayne McGee, Bill McTosh, Eric Norris, Peewee Piemonte, J.P. Romano, Laurence Rosenthal, Ed Anders, Lynn Salvatori, Chuck Clow, and Bobby Aldridge), the drama The Bodyguard (1992, with Bill Cobbs, Mike Starr, Bert Remsen, Donald Hotton, Douglas Price, Robert Buckingham, Juan De Villa, Bruce Dobos, Kevin Grevioux, Adolphus Hankins, Dan Koko, Mark Kosakura, Rudy Morrison, Jim Portnoy, Michelle Rudy, George Sasaki, Fran Severini, John Tesh, and Curt Truman), the action comedy Last Action Hero (1993, with F. Murray Abraham), the thriller Point of No Return (1993, with Miguel Ferrer, Olivia d'Abo, Mic Rodgers, Wendy Davies, Kenny Endoso, Bobby Apisa, Steve Chambers, Lou DeGrado, Doc Duhame, Clay Hodges, Henry Kingi, Sr., David R. Maier, Joyce McNeal, Rudy Morrison, Sherry O'Keefe, Ronald R. Rondell, R.A. Rondell, Shane Dixon, Cheryl Wheeler Duncan, and Manny Perry), and the comedy sequel Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994, with Raye Birk, Matt Roe, Earl Boen, Rosalind Ingledew, Alex Zimmerman, Marc Alaimo, Rick Scarry, Bob Scribner, Marcy Goldman, Bill Erwin, Bill Zuckert, Lena Banks, Symba Smith, David Keith Anderson, Kevin G. Tracey, Mark Kosakura, Warren Tabata, Robert Lombardo, Catherine Wong, Cooper, Al Ahlf, Gene Poe, John Staible, Sam Alejan, Kevin Grevioux, George Sasaki, Dan Magee, Jim Portnoy, Lou DeGrado, Robert Coffee, Andray Johnson, Star Halm, Robert Buckingham, Rob Plaza, Rachen Assapiomonwait, Jessie Biscardi, Buzz Barbee, Kelly Burris, Jasmine Gagnier, Joycelyn Robinson, Mike Paciorek, Kimberly Auslander, Dale Kasman, and Martin Valinsky).
In 1992 she was one of the Benchwarmer girls and received a Benchwarmer trading card in the premier edition, card No. 16. Other Star Trek performers in this card collection include Shauna O'Brien, Kimm Collinsworth, and Sandra Wild. [1] She also worked as a model and was featured on the covers of magazines such as Interview, Lap Top, GQ, and the French Vogue beside dozens of television commercials.
Today, St. Clair is working as a pastry chef.