Mary Mascari

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Mary D. Mascari McDermott (16 January 1929 – 19 September 2020; age 91) was an actress who appeared as a Mercy Hospital patient in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Beginning in 1993, Mascari appeared as a regular background actress, a Bajoran woman, in several episodes of all seven seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. She also had a background role in an episode of Star Trek: Voyager.

Mascari was married to Edward McDermott from 20 February 1960 until his death on 18 August 1972. The couple had two children.

Mascari started to work as background actress in the 1940s and worked on projects such as the musical Good News (1947), The Lady from Shanghai (1947, with Arthur Tovey), Around the World in 80 Days (1956), The Black Orchid (1958, with Peter Mark Richman, Whit Bissell, and Majel Barrett), I Want to Live! (1958, directed by Robert Wise and with Theodore Bikel and Jon Lormer), The Buccaneer (1958, with Majel Barrett, Fred Carson, Bill Erwin, William Meader, and Gil Perkins), Can-Can (1960, with Benjie Bancroft, Wilda Taylor, and Arthur Tovey), the pilot episode of The Cop and the Kid (1975, with Tierre Turner), Coma (1978, with Geneviève Bujold, Lance LeGault, Betty McGuire, Vaughn Armstrong, and Nicholas Worth), Dynasty (1983, with Joan Collins, Lee Bergere, Don Eitner, Peter Mark Richman, Robert Symonds, Peter Eastman, Buzz Barbee, John Blower, and Ray Petersen), Rhinestone (1984, with Phil Rubenstein), and The Colbys (1986, with Stephanie Beacham, Tracy Scoggins, Ricardo Montalban, Joseph Campanella, and Peter White).