Angelina Fiordellisi
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Angelina Fiordellisi (born 15 March 1955; age 53) is the actress who played Kaminer in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Schisms".
Hailing from Detroit, Michigan, Fiordellisi has served as the Artistic Director of New York's off-Broadway Cherry Lane Theatre since 1996. She has also performed on Broadway, acting in the 1983 revival of Zorba, working alongside Jeff McCarthy.
Besides TNG, Fiordellisi also made appearances on The Cosby Show, Roseanne, and Law & Order. In 1994, she became a recurring player on the short-lived ABC sitcom Thunder Alley. Among her co-stars on this series was one-time Star Trek: Enterprise guest performer Jim Beaver. Fiordellisi appeared in 11 of the show's 27 episodes, with the last airing in May 1995.
In addition, she had small roles in the films Delusion (1991, starring Jim Metzler and featuring Robert Costanzo and Tracey Walter), When a Man Loves a Woman (1994, with Ellen Geer, Eugene Roche, Gail Strickland, and Susanna Thompson), and Where the Heart Is (2000, starring Ashley Judd). This latter film also featured an appearance by her Thunder Alley co-star, Jim Beaver.
