Lee Arnone-Briggs

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Lee Arnone-Briggs is an American actress with a career spanning nearly forty years in stage, screen, and television productions. In addition to her screen work, she is also a voice actress with several motion picture credits.

Her notable film roles include "Mrs. Lemsky" in Girls Just Want to Have Fun and the Stewardess in The Karate Kid Part II . However, her mostly widely noted film role is for a movie in which she does not appear in the theatrical release— Star Trek: Insurrection . In this film, Arnone-Briggs played a Starfleet librarian on the USS Enterprise-E. The scene was cut from the film version, however, it was included on the Star Trek: Insurrection (Special Edition) DVD release.

Her television credits include appearances on Married... with Children , Night Court , Hunter , Hooperman , Starman , the mid-1980s edition of The Twilight Zone , and The Facts of Life .

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