American actress and singer who played Yeoman Janice Rand in the first season of The Original Series and returned in four films and Voyager.
Grace Lee Whitney (1930–2015) was an American actress and singer whose career spanned radio, stage, music and television. She played Captain Kirk's yeoman, Janice Rand, in the first half of the first season of Star Trek, in episodes including The Man Trap, Charlie X and Miri, before the character was written out.
Whitney returned to the role in Star Trek: The Motion Picture and in Star Trek III, IV and VI, where Rand serves as a communications officer aboard Sulu's USS Excelsior. She played Rand once more in the Voyager episode Flashback (1996).