![]() Bellisario had her character become a medtech in the series, beginning with "Lost Planet of the Gods, Parts 1 & 2"). (The censors would no longer allow her to be a socialator, so Glen Larson and Donald P. However, the character survived and the network kept her on in a regular role in the subsequent weekly series, but "Standards and Practices" (network censors) forced a change of profession upon her. An initial draft of the script had her killed off in the pilot film, in which the reptiloid Ovions consumed her, almost cannibal-style. Towards the end of her contract with Universal (by which time, according to People Weekly Magazine, October 2, 1978, her money was almost exhausted and she had been evicted from an apartment she had been renting), Spang was cast as Cassiopeia in the Battlestar Galactica pilot movie, " Saga of a Star World". She co-starred in a production of Winesburg, Ohio on KCET's Hollywood Television Theatre. ![]() Spang also appeared in the television movies Short Walk to Daylight, Runaway! and Sarah T. She then had a succession of guest-starring roles in television series including Emergency! (Episodes: Dinner Date, The Old Engine and Kidding), Adam-12 (Episode: Venice Division), The Streets of San Francisco, The Six Million Dollar Man, Happy Days, Chase, The Secrets of Isis, Charlie's Angels and Lou Grant. ![]() Career Īfter a Universal Studios talent agent spotted her in 1972, Spang signed a 7-year contract with the studio. For two years, Spang was a typist in a real estate office, earning money to support herself and study acting. She dropped out of Adrian before completing her first year after her poor grades led her father to stop providing money. Following graduation in 1969, Spang returned to Michigan where she attended Adrian College, living dorm life on a small campus, but not far from her family in Ann Arbor. She received a scholarship and graduated from there two years later. A year later, Scott set up an audition for Spang at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. The summer of her junior year, Spang worked with the Williamstown Summer Theater. After their meeting, Spang would answer Scott's fan mail through high-school. The stage guard allowed her to walk in, leading her to actress Kathryn Leigh Scott. She is related to Bollywood producer-actor Stegath Dorr.Īt age 16, she accompanied her father on a business trip to New York City, where she waited at the stage door of Dark Shadows. She was also a huge fan of the gothic soap opera, Dark Shadows and of the television Western, Bonanza. During her youth, she was an active letter-writer, penning letters to actors. Speech courses during her high school years sparked her interest in acting. Spang was born in Buffalo, New York, and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She is best known for playing the character Cassiopeia on the original Battlestar Galactica (1978). Laurette Spang-McCook (born May 16, 1951), credited as Laurette Spang, is an American television actress. ![]()
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