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Bernadette Pelletier (born 4 December 1945; age 78) is a former actress and model who played a Starfleet officer at air tram station and an Enterprise rec deck crewmember in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. As a background performer, she was not credited for her roles.

Pelletier began her career at the age of 6 as a child model and actress in television commercials. As an adult, she became the spokesperson for Sunoco Gasoline and performed in numerous commercials and industrial films, as well as playing bit and backround roles in films and television series such as a bar patron in the Cheers episode "Rescue Me" (1985, with Kelsey Grammer, Roger Trantham, Michael Prokopuk, Gene Cross, Lee Allen, Joey Banks, and David Armstrong).

Her only credited roles were a smaller guest spot in a 1980 episode of Lou Grant, which also featured James Whitmore, Jr. and Arthur Batanides, and playing a nurse in the 1988 romantic comedy She's Having a Baby, which featured William Windom, Bill Erwin, and Larry A. Hankin in the cast, as well as Wil Wheaton and Kirstie Alley playing themselves in cameo roles.

She also appeared in uncredited roles in films such as Blue Thunder (1983, with Malcolm McDowell, Paul Lambert, Anthony James, James Read, and Lars Hensen), and Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986, with Irene Tsu and Darryl Henriques).

She graduated as a licensed vocational nurse from Casa Loma College in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California. From 1980 to 2005, she worked as a firefighter and paramedic at the Los Angeles Fire Department, and from 2003 to 2016, as an Emergency Services Department EMT expert at Los Angeles Valley College. Between 2015 and 2016, she was program director at the college's EMT program.

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