Jeannetta Arnette
Jeannetta Arnette (born 29 July 1954; age 70), sometimes credited as Jeanetta Arnette, is the actress who played Doctor Karen Loews in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine sixth season episode "Statistical Probabilities". She is perhaps best known for her role as Bernadette Meara in all five seasons of Head of the Class. She later had a recurring role on So Notorious, starring Zachary Quinto.
Arnette has also made appearances on such programs as Chico and the Man, Hill Street Blues (starring Barbara Bosson and James B. Sikking), Three's Company, Laverne & Shirley, St. Elsewhere (starring William Daniels, Ed Begley, Jr., Norman Lloyd, Christina Pickles, Chad Allen and Jennifer Savidge), The A-Team (1985, starring Dwight Schultz, with Daniel Davis), Hardcastle and McCormick (1986, starring Brian Keith and Daniel Hugh Kelly, with Paul Carr), L.A. Law (with Daniel Benzali and Corbin Bernsen), Touched by an Angel (with Steven Culp), Grace Under Fire (with Matt McCoy), and an Allan Kroeker-directed episode of Roswell (with William Sadler). Later credits include ER, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2004, starring Mariska Hargitay, with John Schuck), Invasion (2006, with Ivar Brogger and Holmes R. Osborne), J.J. Abrams' and Damon Lindelof's Lost (with Daniel Dae Kim, Terry O'Quinn and Saul Rubinek), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2005, starring Paul Guilfoyle, with Molly Brink), and Extant.
She also has a steady film career. In 1978, she starred in The Redeemer (1978, with Deep Space Nine regular J.G. Hertzler). The following year she and Star Trek: The Next Generation star Denise Crosby had small roles as party guests in 10 (1979, featuring John Hancock, Michael Champion, Lisa Chess and William Lucking).
After acting primarily on television throughout the 1980s, her film credits began stacking up in subsequent decades. She had a role in Judas Kiss (1998, with Richard Riehle and William Lucking). In 2000, she co-starred with Deep Space Nine's Wallace Shawn in The Prime Gig (also featuring Star Trek: Enterprise guest actor Pat Healy, Tom Wright and Brian George). And in 2003 both she and W. Morgan Sheppard had roles in the little-known film Florida City. Arnette's other motion picture credits include Ladybugs (1992, with Nancy Parsons and Jandi Swanson), Boys Don't Cry (1999), and The Shipping News (2001).