Antoinette Bower, 'Star Trek,' 'Twilight Zone' and 'Prom Night' Actress, Dies at 93 [View all]
Source: Hollywood Reporter
Born in Germany, she started out on the CBC in Canada, appeared with Charles Bronson in ‘The Evil That Men Do’ and had a recurring role on ‘Neon Rider.’
Mike Barnes July 11, 2026 7:01am
Antoinette Bower, the German-born British actress who starred on an Adam & Eve-like episode of The Twilight Zone and portrayed the seductive catlike alien Sylvia on an installment of Star Trek, has died. She was 93.
Bower died April 30 in an Eagle Rock senior retirement home in Los Angeles, her friend Carlotta Glackin — great niece of famed Golden Age character actor Edward Everett Horton — told The Hollywood Reporter.
On the big screen, Bower got top billing in the Filipino-shot horror film Superbeast (1972), played the wife of Leslie Nielsen and mother of Jamie Lee Curtis in the slasher classic Prom Night (1980) and was kidnapped by Charles Bronson in the action thriller The Evil That Men Do (1984).
For three seasons (1989-92), she recurred as the kind Fox Devlin, an associate of Winston Rekert’s Dr. Michael Terry, on the Canadian TV drama Neon Rider, set on a ranch in British Columbia for troubled and abused teens.
Antoinette Bower with William Shatner on 'Star Trek' in 1967. Courtesy Everett Collection
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Marta and I met Antoinette at a Twilight Zone Con.
2004 TZCon https://graveyardsofomaha.com/tz2004.html
Antoinette Bower was open, so I brought out the shot from "Thriller" for her to sign, and she was puzzled by it. She was sure it was a composite, but I tried to tell her that it came right off the episode that had been shown in Canada on the Scream channel. She signed it, but was sure it was a fake. I also had a shot from her "Wild Wild West" episode, as well as "Being from Another Planet," done by MST3K. Steve wanted that, for some reason, though it is my favorite MST3K show.
Our 2002 TZCon page: https://graveyardsofomaha.com/tz2002.html
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