Trivia

Played Yvette Picard, the mother of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard, on the Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) TV series.

It was Herta who brought the family to Topanga Canyon following husband Will Geer's Hollywood blacklisting. He was an eternal optimist and she was the realist and survivor. After losing their own in Santa Monica, and before their money ran out, Herta bought five acres in the canyon for $10,000, which would become the site for their popular outdoor theater. They lived off the land and became vegetarians.

Three children with Will Geer - Kate Geer, Ellen Geer and Thad Geer. She and Geer divorced in 1954 and Herta married again. Her fourth child, Melora Marshall, came from her second marriage to late actor David Marshall. Following Herta's second divorce, she and Will reunited in 1973 and moved back into their Topanga Canyon home with their children and forged the outdoor theater company.

Former wife of actor Will Geer; performs with her daughter, Ellen Geer at their theater founded by Will Geer, "Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum" in Topanga, Ca, USA.

Herta's daughter, Melora Marshall, portrayed her in a 1995 production at the Theatricum Botanicum entitled "And the Dark Cloud Came," the Geer's personal story of the McCarthy blacklisting and its effects. Herta played her own grandmother, labor activist Ella Reeve Bloor, in the family epic, and another daughter Ellen Geer co-directed the production.

She was the granddaughter of Ella Reeve Bloor, aka "Mother" Bloor, one of the most famous radical organizers of the 20th century and a co-founder of the Communist Party of the United States.

Ex-mother-in-law of Larry Linville.

Grandmother of Kelly Linville.

She and her daughter Ellen Geer both made guest appearances on Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) and Beauty and the Beast (1987).

Having played played Yvette Picard in Where No One Has Gone Before (1987), she was the first of three generations of her family to appear in "Star Trek". Her daughter Ellen Geer played Dr. Kila Marr in Silicon Avatar (1991) while her granddaughter Willow Geer played a Romulan refugee in Absolute Candor (2020).