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Melodee M. Spevack (born 13 October 1953; age 70) is an actress, stuntwoman, and voice artist who provided the voice of the Andorian lieutenant in the Star Trek: Enterprise fourth season episode "Kir'Shara". She was listed as Andorian Com Voice in the end credits of the episode. In addition, she served as casting and voice director for the video games Star Trek: 25th Anniversary (1992) and Star Trek: Judgment Rites (1993). For the first one she also voiced Brittany Marata and the computer, and for the latter one Admiral Cain, Ops, Debug, and Fase.

Spevack was born in Chicago, Illinois and made her first entertainment business steps in the late '70s with an appearance in the drama Deadbeat (1976) alongside Scott Lawrence and Tom Wright, followed by appearances in The Jeffersons (1983), Spellbinder (1988, written by Tracy Tormé and with Cary-Hiroyuki, Richard Fancy, and John DeMita), the action film East L.A. Warriors (1989), and Freddy's Nightmares (1989, with Michael Horton and Dey Young).

A British trained stuntwoman and fight choreographer specialized in sword work, archery, horse work, and fights, she studied under Anthony De Longis and Paul Stader. Spevack often has acting roles including physical action but also served as stunt double for a number of actresses, including Stephanie Beacham in The Colbys (1986, with Tracy Scoggins, Ricardo Montalban, Ray Wise, Georgann Johnson, and Tim McCormack) and Dynasty (1989, with Tracy Scoggins, Joan Collins, John D. Gowans, Spike Silver, Tom Morga, Richard Sarstedt, and Brian J. Williams), Tracy Griffith in The First Power (1990, with Jeff Kober and Melanie Shatner, and stunts by Tom Morga, Lane Leavitt, and Terry Jackson), Courteney Cox in Blue Desert (1991), Mitzi Kapture in Silk Stalkings (1991-1995), and Amy Yasbeck in The Mask (1994, with Robert O'Reilly, Kevin Grevioux, Louis Ortiz, and stunts by Scott McElroy, Gary Epper, and Joni Avery).

The work she is perhaps best known for is her career as voice actress and voice casting director (she is the vice president of the Nevada-based Voxworks voice corporation) for numerous video games, television series, and feature films. She served as voice double for Sigourney Weaver in Alien Resurrection (1997) and for Laura Dern in We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004), served as ADR voice in Starship Troopers, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, and Vampires, and lent her voice to video games and animated series such as RoboTech (1985, with Iona Morris and Dan Woren), Stonekeep (1994), Trigun (1998), Galerians (1999), Argento Soma (2000), Hunt for the Sword Samurai (2000, with Dan Woren), Space Pirate Captain Harlock: The Endless Odyssey (2002), Digimon: Digital Monsters (1999-2003), Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard (2005), and Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria (2006).

Spevack also served as associate producer and casting director for films such as science fiction comedy Dinosaur Valley Girls (1996, with Jeff Rector and Bill Blair) and the horror film The Mummy's Kiss (2003, with Richard Lynch and David Jean Thomas). Further performances include voice work in Xena: Warrior Princess (1997 and 2000, the latter one with guest star Musetta Vander), the short comedy Steven Spielberg's Movie (2001), The Division (2001, with John Cothran, Jr., Michael Papajohn, and Freda Foh Shen), stunt work in the television series Invasion (2005), and the short films Balance (2005) and Chicxulub (2006, with Joel Swetow).

More recently, Spevack was interviewed in the documentary Adventures in Voice Acting (2007, alongside Michael Forest and Mary Elizabeth McGlynn), served as fight coordinator for the short film Forced Alliance (2007, with Jeff Doba) and the comedy Never Say Macbeth (2007, with Alexander Enberg, Diane M. Hurley, and Sam Zeller), played a supporting role in the drama Pain Within (2007, with Matt Roe), and lent her voice to the video game Lost Odyssey (2008, with Michael Bell). She also continues her work with Star Trek as an actress in several fan productions.

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