Angelique Pettyjohn

Angelique Pettyjohn was an American actress and burlesque performer who was born in Los Angeles and raised in Salt Lake City. She made her first credited film appearances in 1967 under the name Angelique, in pictures such as The Touch of Her Flesh and The Love Rebellion, and her break came that year with a part in the Elvis Presley film Clambake (1967). She danced in the opening scene of The Odd Couple (1968) and played Shahna, the thrall trainer of Captain Kirk, in the Star Trek episode The Gamesters of Triskelion (1968). Television work followed on Batman, Get Smart and The Girl from U.N.C.L.E., among others. Later films included The Mad Doctor of Blood Island (1969), Heaven with a Gun (1969), Repo Man (1984), Biohazard (1985) and The Wizard of Speed and Time (1988), for which she designed her own costumes. Through the 1970s she worked in Las Vegas burlesque shows. She died in 1992.