Josephine Parra

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Josephine Parra, also known as Jo Summers, [1] is an actress who worked as stand-in for guest actress Jean Simmons on the Star Trek: The Next Generation fourth season episode "The Drumhead". She received no credit for this work but is listed on several call sheets of the episode. Parra worked between 19 February 1991 and 22 February 1991 and between 25 February 1991 and 27 February 1991 on Paramount Stage 8 and 9.

Parra earned credits for her appearances in Dragnet (1954, with Leonard Nimoy), Sea Hunt (1958, starring Lloyd Bridges, with Dick Dial), The Left Handed Gun (1958), Perry Mason (1961, with Paul Lambert), and The Third Man (1964).

She previously had background parts in Honeymoon (1947), Tarzan and the Slave Girl (1950, with Fred Carson), and Apache Drums (1951, with Sherry Jackson). Further films in which she worked as background actress are This Earth Is Mine (1959, starring Jean Simmons), Spartacus (1960), and The Money Trap (1965, with Ricardo Montalban, Parley Baer, William Campbell, and George Sawaya).

In the 1980s, Parra worked as background actress on several films and television series such as The Colbys episode "The Gala" (1986, with Stephanie Beacham, Tracy Scoggins, Ricardo Montalban, Judson Scott, Peter White, Peter Eastman, Joel Marston, Tim McCormack, and Gene Poe).

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