Sabrina Scharf

{{short description|American actress, environmental activist, attorney}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2016}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Sabrina Scharf

| image = Sabrina Scharf.jpg

| caption = Scharf in "The Paradise Syndrome", 1968

| birth_name =

| birth_date October 17, 1943 =

| birth_place = Delphos, Ohio, U.S.

| death_date =

| death_place =

| known_for = Miramanee in The Paradise Syndrome, Star Trek

| spouse = {{marriage|Bob Schiller|1968|2017|end=d.}}

| children = 2

| occupation = Actress, lawyer, real estate developer, activist, politician

| yearsactive = 1965–1975

}}

Sabrina Scharf Schiller is an American actress, lawyer, real estate developer, and activist best known for her roles on American television shows.

Biography

Born in Delphos, Ohio, she moved with her mother to Arizona, eventually living in Tucson.{{cite news |author1=Staff |title=On the Banks of Yesteryear — To boldly go… Sabrina Scharf Schiller |url=https://delphosherald.com/Content/News/Community-News/Article/On-the-Banks-of-Yesteryear-To-boldly-go-Sabrina-Scharf-Schiller/191/1185/201975 |access-date=July 1, 2023 |work=Delphos Herald |publisher=DHI Media, Inc. |date=February 18, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190727050518/https://delphosherald.com/Content/News/Community-News/Article/On-the-Banks-of-Yesteryear-To-boldly-go-Sabrina-Scharf-Schiller/191/1185/201975 |archive-date=July 27, 2019 |location=Delphos, Ohio | url-status=dead}} She eloped with her algebra teacher at age 15, but the marriage was annulled three years later. She later worked as a theatrical assistant in New York, then became a Playboy Bunny beginning in 1962.{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j5I62jQSEAIC&q=Sabrina+Scharf&pg=PA136 |title = The Bunny Years: The Surprising Inside Story of the Playboy Clubs: The Women Who Worked as Bunnies, and Where They Are Now|isbn = 9781451663280|last1 = Scott|first1 = Kathryn Leigh|pages= 35–36, 39 | publisher = Simon and Schuster | date = September 27, 2011 | via = Google Books}} She appeared in the movie Easy Rider and guest-starred in the third-season episode of the original Star Trek, "The Paradise Syndrome".{{Cite book|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=cbYf2l7gczUC&q=Sabrina+Scharf&pg=PT1196 | title = The Star Trek Encyclopedia | first1 = Michael| last1 = Okuda| first2 = Denise | last2 = Okuda | first3 = Debbie | last3 = Mirek | date = May 17, 2011 | publisher = Simon and Schuster | isbn = 9781451646887 | via = Google Books}}

After Scharf quit acting in the 1970s, she became an anti-pollution activist and unsuccessfully ran for the California State Senate in 1976.{{cite news

| last = Stammer

| first = Larry

| title = Sabrina Schiller—Her Crusade for Clean Air Creates a Whirlwind

| url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-07-01-me-630-story.html

| work = Los Angeles Times

| date = July 1, 1986

| access-date = July 1, 2023

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200705164403/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-07-01-me-630-story.html

| archive-date = July 5, 2020

| url-status = live

}} She was married to television writer Bob Schiller from 1968 until his death in 2017 and had two children with him.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/obituaries/bob-schiller-dead-writer-on-beloved-tv-comedies.html|title=Bob Schiller, Writer on Beloved TV Comedies, Dies at 98|last=Genzlinger|first=Neil|work=The New York Times|date=October 12, 2017|access-date=July 1, 2023}}

Scharf became an attorney in 1989 and practiced real estate law in the Los Angeles Pacific Palisades neighborhood until 2017.{{cite web |title=Sabrina Scharf Schiller, Real Estate Attorneys Pacific Palisades |url=http://lawyers-usa.org/c-1042311-sabrina-scharf-schiller.html |website=Lawyers USA |access-date=July 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170805182040/http://lawyers-usa.org/c-1042311-sabrina-scharf-schiller.html |archive-date=August 5, 2017 |url-status=usurped}}

Filmography

=Films=

class="wikitable"
Year

! Title

! Role

! Notes

1966Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-RoundGirl in Bed with EliUncredited
1967Hells Angels on WheelsShill
1967Waterhole No. 3DoveUncredited
1969Easy RiderSarah
1969The Virgin PresidentPresident's girlfriend
1973HunterAnne NovakTV movie

=Television=

class="wikitable"
Year

! Title

! Role

! Notes

1965GidgetPenelope Peterson1 episode
1966The Man from U.N.C.L.E.Mari Brooks1 episode
1966The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.Greta Wolfe1 episode
1966Daniel BooneAlkini Matthews1 episode
1967Captain NiceMiss Schneider1 episode
1968The Wild Wild WestChina Hazard1 episode
1968Star TrekMiramanee1 episode
1968I Dream of JeannieValerie Thomas1 episode
1969GunsmokeLora1 episode
1969The Courtship of Eddie's FatherDiane Kirby1 episode
1968-1969MannixCelia James / Maureen McGill2 episodes
1968-1970Hogan's HeroesLuisa / Inge Wagner2 episodes
1970The InternsPenny Weems1 episode
1969-1971Hawaii Five-ONicole Fleming / Victoria Lochner3 episodes
1973BanacekWyn Reever1 episode
1973The New Perry MasonSheila Osborne1 episode
1975The Streets of San FranciscoMianna1 episode
1975Harry OJenny / Kathy2 episodes

References

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