Mercedes Blanche (born 2 February 1997; age 27) is a model and actress who played a Discovery crewmember in the Star Trek: Discovery fourth season episode "Anomaly (DIS)" and a Pirate in the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds first season episode "The Serene Squall". As a background performer, she was not credited for her roles.
She was born and raised in Hungary and moved to Canada (where her father is originally from) after graduating from high school. She earned a master's degree in Project Management and studied at the LB Acting Studio in Toronto. She worked as a nurse in Toronto while doing modeling on social media. She was fired from her job when her employers found out she is doing adult content videos on the website OnlyFans. [1]
Discovered through her budging Instagram and TikTok following, Blanche has been signed as a model by several companies, including Bella Barnett, Fashion Nova, and Cape Clique.
She appeared in uncredited background roles on television series such as American Gods (with Cait Alexander, developed by Bryan Fuller), Murdoch Mysteries (with Zarrin Darnell-Martin and Byron Abalos), Private Eyes (with Michael Ayres and Nicole de Boer, directed by Shawn Piller), Chucky (starring Brad Dourif and Barbara Alyn Woods, with Lizz Porter), Mayor of Kingstown (with Derek Webster), The Expanse (starring Shohreh Aghdashloo, with Conrad Coates, Emma Ho, and Ian Ho), Reacher (with Bruce McGill, Jonathan Koensgen, and Ava Cheung), The Umbrella Academy (with Jake Epstein), The Boys (starring Karl Urban and Jack Quaid), and The Handmaid's Tale.
She also did background work in Life in a Year (2020, with Carlos Albornoz and Michael Boisvert), The Man from Toronto (with Ronnie Rowe Jr., Daniel Kash, Tig Fong, Al Vrkljan, Justin Howell, Bart Badzioch, and Jim Chad), Netflix' Wedding Season and Slumberland (with Izaak Smith and Ava Cheung), the latter three all released in 2022.
She played bit and supporting roles (and received credit) in episodes of Y: The Last Man (with Mimi Kuzyk and Missi Pyle), See (with Bart Badzioch), Pretty Hard Cases (with Karen Robinson, Brendan Beiser, and Lindsay Owen Pierre), and Robyn Hood (with Lisa Michelle Cornelius).