Mary Kay Adams as Grilka in Two Deep Space Nine Episodes “The House of Quark” & “Looking for par’Mach in all the Wrong Places”
Grilka was a Klingon woman from the Mekro’vak region and the widow of Kozak. Her most trusted adviser was Tumek.
After Kozak died in Quark’s in early 2371, Quark took credit for killing her husband, even though Kozak actually fell onto his own knife. She forced Quark to marry her so she could retain control of her house. Despite Grilka’s aversion to matters of finance, she allowed Quark to inspect her family ledgers where he discovered that D’Ghor, Kozak’s enemy, had been systematically attacking the House of Kozak for five years in order to weaken it.
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Grilka was played by Mary Kay Adams.
Mary Kay Adams (born 12 September 1962; age 49) played Grilka in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes “The House of Quark” and “Looking for par’Mach in All the Wrong Places“. She is a descendant of US Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams.
Adams also played the role of Na’Toth on Babylon 5 during that show’s second season, taking over the role from fellow DS9 guest star Julie Caitlin Brown. Although she was listed in the show’s opening credits for the entire season, she only appeared in two episodes. Mostly, she worked with Andreas Katsulas on the show.
Adams also guest starred in the Dark Skies episode “Moving Targets” with fellow Deep Space Nine guest stars Stephen James Carver, the late William Frankfather, and Leon Russom.
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Shannon Cochran as Sirella in Deep Space Nine Episode “You Are Cordially Invited…”
Lady Sirella, daughter of Linkasa, was Martok‘s wife and Mistress of the House of Martok.
Sirella was of noble descent, tracing her maternal lineage back to Shenara, daughter of Emperor Reclaw of the Second Dynasty. However, her 23rd maternal grandmother was actually named Karana, a concubine. (DS9: “You Are Cordially Invited“)
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Although she was completely different from the woman Martok thought he would marry (he thought of her as a mercurial, arrogant, prideful woman who didn’t have sex with him as much as he wanted to), his love for her was very deep. (DS9: “You Are Cordially Invited“)
A proud and headstrong woman, Sirella was originally opposed to the marriage between Worf and Jadzia Dax, believing that by allowing aliens to join her house would threaten their identity as Klingons. Since as mistress she had the duty of approving all marriages into the family, she came to Deep Space 9 to evaluate Dax’s worthiness. Sirella’s views led her to set Dax’s standards impossibly high, eventually causing a clash between them and to her canceling the wedding. Dax eventually begged her forgiveness, changing Sirella’s mind about her. Sirella later performed the wedding ceremony. (DS9: “You Are Cordially Invited“)
She was played by Shannon Cochran.
Shannon Cochran (born 7 August 1958; age 53) from Greensboro, North Carolina is an actress who has guest-starred in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. She also appeared in Star Trek Nemesis. She has also guest-starred in ER, Frasier, NYPD Blue, Seinfeld and The Office (where the father of the man her character’s daughter was played by Robert Pine – though another actress would take over the role in that episode). In a StarTrek.com interview, she mentions that she married her “Defiant” co-star Michael Canavan, and that he was the only person, aside from Jonathan Frakes and Nana Visitor, she filmed the episode with.
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Shannon Cochran (born August 7, 1958) is an American actress. While she has numerous credits to her name, she is particularly recognizable as having played the mysterious Anna Morgan in the popular 2002 film The Ring.
Cochran played Pam Beesly‘s mother in The Office episode Sexual Harassment (later replaced by Linda Purl).
She also had a guest role in the Deep Space Nine Episode “Defiant”
As Kalita, a member of the Maquis
