Antoinette Bower, the German-born British actress best known to genre fans for her roles in The Twilight Zone and Star Trek, has died at the age of 93. She passed away on 30 April at a senior retirement home in the Eagle Rock area of Los Angeles, according to her friend Carlotta Glackin. Her death marks the loss of a prolific character actress whose career spanned several decades of American and Canadian television and film.

Bower was born Antoinette Alexandra Jane Bower on 30 September 1932 in Baden-Baden, Germany, to a German mother and English father, and was educated in England before working with the United Nations' International Refugee Organization in the late 1940s. After moving to Canada in 1953 and joining the fledgling Canadian Broadcasting Corp., she relocated to Los Angeles in the early 1960s, appearing in Marlon Brando's Mutiny on the Bounty (1962). She portrayed Eve Norda in the 1963 Twilight Zone episode "Probe 7, Over and Out" and the catlike alien Sylvia in the 1967 Star Trek episode "Catspaw", while her film work included Superbeast (1972), the slasher Prom Night (1980) and The Evil That Men Do (1984). She also guest-starred on dozens of series, including Perry Mason, Bonanza, Mission: Impossible and Murder, She Wrote, and recurred on the Canadian drama Neon Rider from 1989 to 1992.