Oldest Living 'Star Trek' Actor Marsha Hunt Dies

Marsha Hunt as Anne Jameson in STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION's "Too Short A Season." Image: Paramount.

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022 - She might have only appeared in one episode of Star Trek, but she embodied its values in the face of opposition. She was also the oldest living Star Trek actor. Marsha Hunt, successful in and blacklisted by Hollywood, has died at the age of 104, according to Heavy.

Star Trek fans know Hunt for her appearance in the Star Trek: The Next Generation season one episode, “Too Short a Season,” in which she played Anne Jameson, the wife of Federation negotiator, Admiral Mark Jameson. Her career, however, extended back to 1935 and ended only fourteen years ago.

Her Hollywood career was disrupted, though, during the Red Scare of the late forties and fifties. During a lull in 1955, Hunt toured around the world for a year and said she “fell in love with the planet.” She became an active supporter of the United Nations, wrote and produced a documentary about refugees, and addressed homelessness in Southern California as the honorary mayor of Sherman Oaks.

She did land many television roles following the blacklisting and beyond, including The Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Murder, She Wrote, and Matlock. In all, she had over 100 film and television credits.

Please join all of us at Daily Star Trek News in offering our condolences to the family and friends of Marsha Hunt.

For more on her life and career, including links to other remembrances, head over to Heavy. And in full disclosure, our own T. Rick Jones also writes for Heavy.