Layla Sarakalo

Layla Sarakalo is an artist and fashion designer who appeared as a background actress, a passerby on a San Francisco street, in. Sarakalo was born in San Francisco, California. After her car was towed from the filming location on Grant Avenue in, Sarakalo decided to stay on the location and earn her money that day as a background performer. She was a member of the group of extras who were instructed to interact with the two actors, but she ignored the instructions given to them that they should not speak while on camera. She said, "Oh, I don't know if I know the answer to that. I think it's across the bay. In Alameda!" The crew decided that her exchange with the actors fit the scene, and kept it in the film. Sarakalo did not realize until the film was released that her scene had not landed on the cutting room floor.

Sarakalo, a fashion designer and art historian, lived in Paris, France for more than 10 years, where she hosted a rock and roll radio show in English KLOD 96.3 and later opened a fashion house near the Rodin Museum.

Her Star Trek experience was revealed in when she decided to tell her story. Until then she was only known as the "mystery woman".

Layla began creating images using Stephen Hawking's name and image, with his permission. Now translating scientific data into ART with the assistance of Geophysicsts at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge.