Laurette Spang-McCook
Actor
Laurette Spang-McCook is a television actress. She is best known for playing the character Cassiopeia on the original Battlestar Galactica (1978).
A Universal Studios talent agent spotted her in 1972, Spang signed a 7-year contract with the studio. She then had a succession of guest-starring roles in television series including Emergency!, Adam-12, The Streets of San Francisco, The Six Million Dollar Man, Happy Days, Chase, The Secrets of Isis, Charlie's Angels, and Lou Grant. Spang also appeared in the television movies Short Walk to Daylight, Runaway!, and Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic. She co-starred in a production of Winesburg, Ohio on KCET's Hollywood Television Theatre.
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MoreLaurette Spang-McCook is a television actress. She is best known for playing the character Cassiopeia on the original Battlestar Galactica (1978).
A Universal Studios talent agent spotted her in 1972, Spang signed a 7-year contract with the studio. She then had a succession of guest-starring roles in television series including Emergency!, Adam-12, The Streets of San Francisco, The Six Million Dollar Man, Happy Days, Chase, The Secrets of Isis, Charlie's Angels, and Lou Grant. Spang also appeared in the television movies Short Walk to Daylight, Runaway!, and Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic. She co-starred in a production of Winesburg, Ohio on KCET's Hollywood Television Theatre.
Towards the end of her contract with Universal (by which time, according to People Weekly Magazine, 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". An initial draft of the script had her killed off in the pilot film, in which the reptiloid Ovions consumed her, almost cannibal-style. However, the character survived and the network kept her on in a regular role in the subsequent weekly series.
Spang's later acting performances were in The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, The Dukes of Hazzard, and Magnum, P. I.. She took a de facto retirement from acting in 1984, though she made a brief appearance in the 2007 horror film Plot 7, which also featured her by-then husband John McCook. In 2002, Spang appeared in the Battlestar Galactica episode of Sciography documentary series on the Sci-Fi Channel in 2002. In 2003, she appeared in another Battlestar Galactica documentary included as an extra feature in the DVD box set of the series released for the series' 25th anniversary.
Subject ID: 73220
Subject ID: 73220
