Erica Durance was born June 21, 1978.

Erica Durance began her career with background work, graduating to commercials and then guest-starring roles. In 2004, she guest-starred on The Chris Isaak Show playing Ashley, a woman on a date with Chris. In Tru Calling, her character was a contender in a beauty pageant opposite Eliza Dushku’s character. On the Sci-Fi Channel, she played an intergalactic librarian in Andromeda and a love interest for Teal’c in Stargate SG-1. She also played a sister to one of the leads in the Canadian show The Collector.

2004 also saw Durance cast as Lois Lane on Smallville at the start of the 4th season. Executive Producer Kelly Souders recalled hiring Durance stating: “There were a lot of wonderful actresses who came in for the role but I remember sitting and watching her tape and everybody was like, ‘That’s her. There’s no question.'” Fellow producer Brian Peterson added that from the moment Durance was hired they knew she would be Lois for the series. Durance was a frequent guest star as Lois for the 4th season of Smallville and was then promoted as a series regular for the start of the 5th season. She remained part of the regular cast for the remainder of the series run which ended in 2011.

After 7 years, 2011 saw Durance complete her stint on Smallville as Lois Lane. And at the same time guest star in one episode of the ABC series remake of Charlie’s Angels.

Along with starring in Smalville series, Durance has appeared in number of films and TV movies. Starring in 2006 Lifetime TV movie “Island Heat: Stranded”, as Carina. And playing Julie Miller, in 2006 film “The Butterfly Effect 2”. In 2007, Durance played Isabel Darden, in Lifetime TV movie “I Me Wed”. Playing a successful, attractive 30-year-old woman, who decides to married herself, after growing tired of family and friends asking her “when are you going to get married”. Durance appeared in 2009 TV movie “Beyond Sherwood Forest” as Maid Marian. In 2010, she played Natalia in the film “Sophie and Sheba”.

In January 2012, she guest starred again, this time in the NBC TV series Harry’s Law. 2012 also saw Durance do a cameo in Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie. In March 2012, she played twin sister Angela / Christine in the Italian TV mini-series 6 passi nel giallo in the episode Gemelle.

In the summer of 2012, Durance began playing the lead role in the NBC/CTV medical drama Saving Hope, as Chief Surgical Dr. Alex Reid. Durance is also a producer on the series. The series also stars Michael Shanks and Daniel Gillies. Saving Hope premiered on NBC and CTV on June 7. Season 2 began on June 25, 2013. Season 3 began in September 2014. In season 3, Erica Durance’s real life pregnancy was worked into her character Alex Reid and the series.

Durance played Carnegie Kincaid, a wedding planner and a perfectionist, in 2014 Hallmark’s movie “Wedding Planner Mystery”. The story follows Carnegie Kincaid trying to clear her name, after she became a murder suspect. As her life exploding into a whirlwind mix of danger, mystery, and romance. The movie is based on Deborah Donnelly’s novel “Veiled Threats”.

Erica Durance stars in the 2015 thriller film “Painkillers”

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Mariette Hartley was born June 21, 1940.

Mary Loretta “Mariette” Hartley was born June 21, 1940.

Mariette Hartley is the Emmy Award-winning actress who portrayed Zarabeth in the original Star Trek series episode “All Our Yesterdays”.

Born Mary Loretta Hartley in Weston, Connecticut, Hartley studied with acting legend John Houseman at the Repertory Stratford and with Oscar-nominated actress Eva Le Gallienne at Lucille Lortel’s White Barn Theatre. Afterward, Hartley initially struggled to acquire work, but was ultimately cast in Sam Peckinpah’s Western film Ride the High Country, which co-starred future TNG guest actor John Anderson. Her career took off, and more roles began to pour in, not just for films, but for television as well.

On film, Hartley went on to co-star in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1964 thriller Marnie (with Meg Wyllie), John Sturges’ science fiction drama Marooned (1969, co-starring Nancy Kovack), the 1972 thriller Skyjacked (with John Fiedler), The Magnificent Seven Ride! (1972, co-starring Ed Lauter, William Lucking, and James B. Sikking), 1988 war drama 1969 (co-starring Joanna Cassidy), and the popular 1992 comedy Encino Man (with Erick Avari), among a few others. However, Hartley’s greatest success was undoubtedly on television, where she has accumulated over 100 credits.

Early in her career, Hartley made guest appearances on such popular TV westerns as Gunsmoke, The Virginian, Death Valley Days, and Bonanza. In 1964, she appeared in the episode of The Twilight Zone entitled “The Long Morrow” along with Robert Lansing. During the 1965-66 TV season, she was a regular on the soap opera Peyton Place, and from 1966 through ’67, she starred with Richard Mulligan in the short-lived sitcom The Hero. In 1971, Hartley co-starred with Gary Lockwood in an unsold pilot for a sci-fi series entitled Earth II. And in 1973, four years after her appearance on Star Trek, that show’s creator, Gene Roddenberry, had Hartley cast in yet another pilot for a planned sci-fi series, this one entitled Genesis II and co-starring fellow TOS alumni Majel Barrett, Ted Cassidy and Percy Rodriguez. Unfortunately, this series did not sell either. (In a humorous reference to the fact that Hartley was forbidden by the network censors to show her belly button on Star Trek, Roddenberry gave her two belly buttons for Genesis II.)

Hartley continued with her TV career, appearing on The Bob Newhart Show, The Streets of San Francisco (two episodes, one with Clint Howard, another with Robert Foxworth, Steve Sandor, Mark Richman and written by Dorothy Fontana), Barnaby Jones (starring Lee Meriwether and also guest-starring Teri Garr and William Sargent), McCloud (starring Diana Muldaur and Ken Lynch), Little House on the Prairie, and M*A*S*H (with David Ogden Stiers), among others. In 1977, she appeared (along with Arthur Batanides, Robert Brown, Stewart Moss, Bill Quinn, and James B. Sikking) in the TV movie The Last Hurrah, receiving her first Emmy Award nomination. A guest starring role in the first episode of the second season of The Incredible Hulk the following year earned her a second Emmy nomination and her first win. A 1979 appearance on The Rockford Files also earned her an Emmy Award nomination, as well as some unwanted press, as her shared kiss with co-star James Garner was photographed and sensationalized by the tabloids. This led to the rumor that Hartley and Garner were a couple, a rumor initially fueled by their earlier chemistry in a series of Polaroid commercials.

Hartley also received Emmy nominations for her performance in the thirty-minute TV special The Halloween That Almost Wasn’t (co-starring Henry Gibson and John Schuck) and for her starring role in the 1983 TV drama M.A.D.D.: Mothers Against Drunk Driving (with Nicholas Coster, David Huddleston, William Lucking, Bert Remsen, and John Rubinstein). She earned yet another Emmy nomination for her role on the short-lived series Goodnight, Beantown. She also played in “Big Jesse” in Cimarron Strip in 1967.

From 1990 through 1991, Hartley co-starred with Wallace Langham, Phil Morris, Eric Pierpoint, and Harris Yulin on the drama series W.I.O.U. Later TV credits include guest spots on Murder, She Wrote, Caroline in the City, Nash Bridges, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, NCIS and Dirt.

Hartley is married to Jerry Sroka, who played the Talaxian Laxeth on the Star Trek: Voyager episode “Investigations”.

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Chris Pratt was born June 21, 1979.

Christopher Michael “Chris” Pratt is an American actor. Pratt first became known for his television roles, such as Bright Abbott in Everwood (2002–2006), Che Cook in The O.C. (2006-2007), and Andy Dwyer in Parks and Recreation (2009–2015). His film career began with supporting roles in films such as Wanted (2008), Moneyball (2011), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Delivery Man (2013), and Her (2013).

Pratt achieved leading man status after headlining several blockbusters films; he voiced Emmet Brickowski in The Lego Movie (2014), played Peter Quill / Star-Lord in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), and starred in Jurassic World (2015), the continuation of the popular Jurassic Park franchise.

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Happy Summer Solstice for those in the Northern Hemisphere.

The summer solstice occurs when the tilt of a planet’s semi-axis, in either the northern or the southern hemisphere, is most inclined toward the star that it orbits. Earth’s maximum axial tilt toward the Sun is 23° 26′. This happens twice each year, at which times the Sun reaches its highest position in the sky as seen from the north or the south pole.

The summer solstice occurs during a hemisphere’s summer. This is the northern solstice in the northern hemisphere and the southern solstice in the southern hemisphere. Depending on the shift of the calendar, the summer solstice occurs some time between June 20 and June 22 in the northern hemisphere and between December 20 and December 23 each year in the southern hemisphere.

When on a geographic pole, the Sun reaches its greatest height, the moment of solstice, it can be noon only along that longitude which at that moment lies in the direction of the Sun from the pole. For other longitudes, it is not noon. Noon has either passed or has yet to come. Hence the notion of a solstice day is useful. The term is colloquially used like midsummer to refer to the day on which solstice occurs. The summer solstice day has the longest period of daylight – except in the polar regions, where daylight is continuous, from a few days to six months around the summer solstice.

Worldwide, interpretation of the event has varied among cultures, but most recognize the event in some way with holidays, festivals, and rituals around that time with themes of religion or fertility.

Solstice is derived from the Latin words sol (sun) and sistere (to stand still).

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John Wheeler was born June 20, 1930.

John Wheeler is an actor who made his major television debut played Tellarite ambassador Gav in “Journey to Babel”, a second season episode of Star Trek: The Original Series. He filmed his scenes on Friday 22 September 1967 and Monday 25 September 1967 at Desilu Stage 9. Since then, he has appeared on many other television shows and several feature film.

His first TV role following his Star Trek appearance was that of a bartender in a 1968 episode of the Western series Bonanza which also featured fellow Trek guest actor George Murdock. The following year, Wheeler appeared with fellow TOS guest actor Vic Tayback on an episode of The Outsider. He also appeared with Frank Corsentino and Skip Homeier on Then Came Bronson that same year. His other TV credits include Green Acres, The Brady Bunch, The Odd Couple (working alongside Stanley Adams, Bill Quinn, and Garry Walberg), Mission: Impossible, Adam-12 (in an episode with Peter Brocco and Nehemiah Persoff), Love, American Style (including one episode with William Windom), Happy Days (with Ed Begley, Jr.), Gunsmoke, The Rockford Files, The Golden Girls, Night Court (starring John Larroquette and also guest-starring Gregory Itzin), and ER. He also co-starred with Star Trek: Deep Space Nine regular Armin Shimerman in an episode of Good Grief, starring Wendy Schaal.

In 1979, Wheeler appeared in the TV special The Wild Wild West Revisted along with Rene Auberjonois and Skip Homeier. In 1991, Wheeler played I Love Lucy actor William Frawley in the telefilm Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter. Co-starring in this movie were Don Keefer and Alan Oppenheimer. Previous TV movie credits include With This Ring (with Jon Lormer), Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid (with Richard Herd), and the infamous Rescue from Gilligan’s Island (featuring Vincent Schiavelli), all airing in 1978.

In film, Wheeler made his debut with a bit part in the 1968 Elvis Presley picture Live a Little, Love a Little, in which he appeared (uncredited) as a workman alongside Paul Sorenson (the film also starring fellow TOS guest performer Celeste Yarnall). This was followed with roles in Sweet Charity (1969, with Ricardo Montalban, Ben Vereen, and Lance LeGault), Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971), Mame (1974, with Lucille Ball, Bruce Davison, and Barbara Bosson), Bad Georgia Road (1977, with Gary Lockwood), Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978, with Keith Carradine and Carel Struycken), The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979, with Kenneth Mars, John Arndt, Rex Holman, Ed McCready, Robert Pine, and Nick Ramus), Banzai Runner (1987, starring Dean Stockwell and Biff Yeager), and Cold Steel (1987, with Jonathan Banks and Anne Haney). Wheeler can also be seen portraying a lawyer in 1974’s Big Bad Mama, starring his TOS co-star William Shatner, and as a reporter in the hit 1995 film Apollo 13. Among his co-stars in the latter were fellow Star Trek alumni David Andrews, Googy Gress, Max Grodénchik, Clint Howard, Brian Markinson, Andy Milder, Steve Rankin, and Bruce Wright.

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Martin Landau was born June 20, 1928.

Martin Landau is an American film and television actor. His career started in the 1950s, with early film appearances including a supporting role in Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest (1959). He played regular roles in the television series Mission: Impossible (for which he received several Emmy Award nominations and a Golden Globe Award) and Space: 1999.

Landau received the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, as well as his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for his role in Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988); he received his second Oscar nomination for his appearance in Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989). His performance in the supporting role of Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood (1994) earned him an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Golden Globe Award. He continues to perform in film and TV and heads the Hollywood branch of the Actors Studio.

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Virginia Hey was born June 19, 1952.

Virginia Hey is an Australian actress, known for her role as Pa’u Zotoh Zhaan on the science fiction TV series Farscape.

In Australia, she is also known for playing the “Warrior Woman” in Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, and various roles in TV drama series, such as lawyer Jennifer St James in E Street.

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