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Diana Ewing (born 4 January 1946; age 78) is a former actress who played Droxine in the Star Trek: The Original Series third season episode "The Cloud Minders". She filmed her scenes on Friday 15 November 1968, Tuesday 19 November 1968 and Wednesday 20 November 1968 at Desilu Stage 10 and Paramount Stage 5.

Ewing was born in Honolulu. Her father, William H. Ewing was editor of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and covered the attack on Pearl Harbor for the Associated Press. In her teenage years, she acted in school plays and in Honolulu Community Theatre. After attending Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York, Ewing moved to California where she acted at the Manhattan Playhouse in Palo Alto.

Her screen acting career, which only spans nine years, began in 1968 with an episode of The Mod Squad (starring Tige Andrews and Clarence Williams III). In the next year, Ewing guest starred, among others, on Mission: Impossible (which, like Star Trek, was produced at Desilu; her episode also guest-starred Anthony Zerbe), and Gunsmoke (in an episode with Sid Haig). She also made her feature film debut that year, with a supporting role in the drama 80 Steps to Jonah, directed by Gerd Oswald.

Ewing went on to appear in episodes of such series as Lancer (with Jason Wingreen), The Most Deadly Game (with Vince Howard), The Girl with Something Extra (starring Terri Garr and William Windom), Harry O (starring Henry Darrow, in an episode with Walker Edmiston and Michael Strong), Archer (with Antoinette Bower and Brian Keith), Petrocelli (starring Susan Howard and David Huddleston, in an episode with Michael Bell), Police Story (in an episode directed by Alexander Singer and co-starring Elisha Cook), Matt Helm (directed by John Newland and co-starring Whit Bissell and Jonathan Lippe), and The Rockford Files (with Mary Carver, Craig Wasson and Chuck Hicks). She also appeared in Play It as It Lays (1972, with Adam Roarke, Paul Lambert, and Tony Young), The Way We Were (1973, with Roy Jenson, Don Keefer, Robert Hitchcock, and Robert Strong), and the 1974 western thriller A Knife for the Ladies.

Ewing was last seen in the 1977 mini-series Washington: Behind Closed Doors, alongside fellow Star Trek alumni Phillip Richard Allen, Meg Foster, Skip Homeier, Alan Oppenheimer, Charles Macaulay, William Boyett, Jerry Hardin, Bill Zuckert, Walker Edmiston, and Arthur Tovey.

Between 1969 and 1974, Ewing was married to noted screenwriter, director, and producer Charles Shyer.

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