BEHIND-THE-SCENES: ABOUT SARAH SILVEMAN who plays Rain Robinson in [#50 and #51 Future's End] information from IMDB and hollywood.com Sarah Kate Silverman was born on 2nd December 1970, and grew up one of four daughters in a middle-class home in Bedford, Massachusetts, USA. According to hollywood.com: "Funny, irreverent, fearless, hardcore: all can be used to describe actress/comedienne Sarah Silverman and her unremitting style of humor. Silverman has built a career tackling controversial subjects head-on." She is a comedienne, writer and producer who appears on television and in feature films but her main love is performing stand-up comedy. above 4 pictures: as Rain Robinson in [Future's End] She was always interested in comedy, and even wrote the phrase “I Love Steve Martin” on her bedroom ceiling. At age 17, Silverman performed her first stand-up act at Stitches on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston. After dropping out of New York University, she did stand-up in Manhattan which led to regular comedy gigs and tours around the country. While on the road, she was spotted by scouts for Saturday Night Live, and at 22, Silverman was writing and performing on the show. However, Silverman's brand of sassy, sharp-tongued, controversial comedy does not appeal to everyone and she was sacked from the show. She returned to performing stand-up, while appearing in episodes of Seinfeld (1996-1997) as Kramer's girlfriend, as Rain Robinson in the [Star Trek: Voyager] two-part Season 3 story [#50 and #51 Future's End] in 1996, The Naked Truth (1997-1998) and a recurring stint as writer Wendy Traston on The Larry Sanders Show (1996-1998). In the latter show, in the story Putting the 'Gay' Back in Litigation (1998) a guest appearance was made by Ed Begley Jnr. who two years before had appeared as Henry Starling alongside Silverman as Rain Robinson in [Future's End]. Silverman made her feature film debut in Who's the Caboose? (1997), which she co-produced, which was a mockumentary satirising the television industry's most competitive time - pilot season. The actress had a few small roles in bigger Hollywood fare, including the There's Something About Mary (1998), Warren Beatty's political satire Bullworth (1998) and The Bachelor (1999). She also appeared in the films Evolution (2001), starring David Duchovny and Julianne Moore, Heartbreakers (2001) with Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt, and School of Rock (2003). Also in 2003, she toured the country in her one-woman show, Jesus is Magic. But Silverman has always returned to her first love, namely stand-up comedy. She appeared in several programmes in 2005 including, following the popularity of her tour, headlining her own comedy concert film Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic in which, according to hollywood.com, "she unleashed some of her edgiest live stand-up routines." In the same year she had a brief turn as a television producer in the big screen adaptation of Broadway's musical that won the Pulitzer and Tony Awards, Rent, and played Alexi Darling in it. She also produces, and as executive producer worked on both The Sarah Silverman Program (2006) television series and also Sarah Silverman Comedy Central Pilot (2006). Silverman does not drink alcoholic beverages. She is sometimes credited as Sarah Bennett Silverman or Big S or Sarah 'Big S' Silverman. Her three sisters are Susan, a feminist rabbi; Laura Silverman, an actress; and Jody Silverman, a screenwriter.