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Susanne Wasson (born 19 September 1942; age 81) is an actress who played Lethe in the Star Trek: The Original Series first season episode "Dagger of the Mind". She filmed her scenes on Monday 15 August 1966 at Desilu Stage 10.

Hailing from Arkansas, Wasson started out in Hollywood in the late-1950s as an extra and stand-in. Among others, she worked as Elizabeth Taylor's stand-in in the 1960 film Butterfield 8 (with Susan Oliver). From the early-1960s onward, she appeared in smaller roles, mostly on television, appearing sporadically until the early-1990s.

She can be seen in episodes of series such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents (with Rees Vaughn, written by Robert Bloch), Hart to Hart, The A-Team (starring Dwight Schultz, with Richard Lynch, Stephen Liska, Liam Sullivan, and Eve Smith), Days of Our Lives, and the pilot movie for Stingray (with Gregory Sierra, Ellen Geer, Ed O'Ross, David Kagen, directed by Richard Colla).

Her last credit was a small role in the 1992 science fiction film Rain Without Thunder, with Carolyn McCormick, Iona Morris, Ethan Phillips, and Paul Lambert.

Openly lesbian, Wasson was the life partner of Broadway and Hollywood agent Roxy Horen (the former agent of Christopher Lloyd, among others) for forty years. The couple met in 1968, when Wasson was auditioning a television pilot. She reported Horen's death in 2009. [1] [2]

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