Lisa kaminir biography

by Michelle Erica Green

Lisa Kaminir is one of the few people who's ever successfully told off a Vulcan.

Lisa Kaminir

As Lillias, the guest star of Star Trek: Voyager's third season sweeps episode "Rise," she let Tuvok know exactly what she thought of his uppity attitude.

And under several layers of prosthetic makeup, that can't have been easy.

"I was on the set at about 4:00 [a.m.]," Kaminir reports. "I spent two and a half hours in makeup every day. First you go to the prosthetic guy - the week before the job, they do a plaster mold of your head.

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And from that, they make your prostheses - then you go in and the guy attaches all this rubber stuff to your face with silicone glue. Wonderful for your complexion!"

"It's an extraordinary process," she notes of the airbrushing that makes the attachments look like part of one's face.

"Then you go to the hair people ... in the back, my hair was my hair, but [for] part around my hairline, they attached a piece to cover the edge of the la