American stage and screen actress (1950–2021) who played Kai Opaka, the Bajoran spiritual leader who first names Benjamin Sisko as the Emissary of the Prophets in Deep Space Nine.
Camille Saviola was an American actress and singer with a long career in New York theatre before she moved into film and television character parts. On stage she was part of the original Broadway company of the musical Nine.
In Star Trek she played Kai Opaka, spiritual leader of Bajor. She appears in the pilot Emissary, where Opaka shows Sisko the Orb and tells him he is to find the Celestial Temple, and in Battle Lines, in which Opaka is killed in a runabout crash, revived by the moon's artificial microbes and chooses to stay among the warring Ennis and Nol-Ennis.
Saviola returned to the role in vision sequences in The Collaborator and Accession. Her other screen work included the legal drama First Monday, in which she played a Supreme Court justice.