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\n\t\tAntoinette Bower has died aged 93 (Picture: Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)<\/p>\n
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\n\t\tAntoinette Bower has died aged 93 (Picture: Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)<\/p>\n
German-born British actress Antoinette Bower has died aged 93, it has been confirmed.<\/p>\n
The star was best known for playing the seductive, catlike alien<\/a> Sylvia in Star Trek<\/a> and appearing in sci-fi series The Twilight Zone.<\/p>\n She also starred alongside Jamie Lee Curtis<\/a> in the 1980 mystery slasher film Prom Night, playing the Halloween icon\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n Her death was confirmed by her friend, Carlotta Glackin, who is the great-niece of Golden Age actor Edward Everett Horton.<\/p>\n Bower died April 30 in an Eagle Rock retirement home in Los Angeles<\/a>, Glackin told The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, adding that William Shatner<\/a> had emailed to offer his condolences.<\/p>\n Her career spanned four decades, beginning in television in 1958 when she moved to Canada<\/a> to pursue acting. <\/p>\n \t\t After joining the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, her earliest roles included the made-for-TV film The Telltale Heart and an episode of The Unforeseen.<\/p>\n In the late 50s, she scored a recurring role in Hudson\u2019s Bay and featured in episodes of Heritage in 1960. That year, she also further showcased her talents by writing, producing, and narrating an hour-long profile of actor Barry Morse for CBC Radio.<\/p>\n Bower landed her first American series role in a 1961 episode of Hong Kong, after which she frequently appeared on the small screen in the States. Her credits included major projects such as Columbo, Murder, She Wrote, and mini-series The Thorn Birds.<\/p>\n It was around this time that she played Sylvia in\u00a0Star Trek: The Original Series\u2019\u00a0season 2\u00a0episode Catspaw, filming her scenes in 1967. <\/p>\n The episode, written by Robert Bloch (who penned the famous 1959 horror novel Psycho)\u00a0and directed by\u00a0Joseph Pevney, has been declared \u2018stylish\u2019 and \u2018silly\u2019 in rankings over the years, with some even calling it one of the \u2018scariest\u2019 from the franchise.<\/p>\n Speaking previously in an interview, Star Trek assistant director\u00a0Charles Washburn praised Bower as the \u2018most professional actress\u2019 he\u2019d worked with on the series.<\/p>\n \t\t \t\t Branching out into film over the next two decades, Bower featured in Death of Innocence\u00a0(1971), Die Sister, Die!\u00a0(1978), The Cowboy and the Ballerina\u00a0(1984), The Evil That Men Do\u00a0(1984), and\u00a0Club Paradise\u00a0(1986).<\/p>\n In a full-circle moment, she completed her lengthy performing career by returning to Canada and joining the cast of Neon Rider for three seasons from 1990 to 1993.<\/p>\n Bower retreated from acting after Neon Rider, but around 10 years ago, she completed work on a documentary about Canadian chuckwagon racing, having spent several summers with the participants, shooting, editing, and narrating the project herself.<\/p>\n Still, she continued receiving fan mail from Star Trek fans, Glackin has shared.<\/p>\n As for her personal life, she was pre-deceased by her half-brother, Roger.<\/p>\n In a 1968 interview, Bower confirmed that she was married to American Pop Art pioneer James Francis Gill, whom she met when he moved to Los Angeles in 1962. They later divorced.<\/p>\n Before becoming famous, she also had a successful career with the UN\u2019s International Refugee Organisation, helping people who were destitute after the Second World War.<\/p>\n A life celebration for Bower is scheduled to take place in Pasadena, California, on September 26.<\/p>\n![\"Hollywood](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-484513135.jpg\")
\n\t\tBower, pictured here in 2014, had a successful TV and film career over four decades (Picture: Albert L. Ortega\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n![\"ANTOINETTE](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-454936116-e1783799554648.jpg\")
\n\t\tShe had been married to artist James Francis, also in his early nineties (Picture: Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)<\/p>\n![\"Antoinette](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-1124324325-e1783800761366.jpg\")
\n\t\tShe retreated from acting in 1993 (Picture: Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)<\/p>\n