American actor (1944–2024) who played the quick-witted secretary Roberta Lincoln in the 1968 episode Assignment: Earth, before film success in Young Frankenstein, Close Encounters and Tootsie.
Teri Garr was an American actor and dancer, born in 1944, who had one of her first substantial speaking roles in Star Trek.
She appears in Assignment: Earth, the final episode of the second season, broadcast in March 1968. Garr plays Roberta Lincoln, a young secretary in 1968 New York who discovers that her employer, Gary Seven (Robert Lansing), is an agent trained by unseen aliens to steer Earth through a dangerous period. The episode was designed as a pilot for a separate series about Seven and Lincoln, which was never made.
Garr later became a film star in Young Frankenstein, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Tootsie, the last of which earned her an Academy Award nomination. She died in 2024.