Career
Bahr did voice acting work for the Star Trek computer games Star Trek: Voyager Elite Force, Star Trek: Elite Force II and Star Trek: Away Team, released in 2000, 2003 and 2001 respectively. She followed this up with an appearance on the last episode of Star Trek: Voyager, "Endgame" in 2001. She also voiced the character of Madeline Taylor in Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix (2002).
In the following years, Bahr guest starred on a variety of television shows. These roles included guest appearances on Strong Medicine, The Drew Carey Show, Friends, and The King of Queens, as well as recurring character Rachel Heinemann on Curb Your Enthusiasm.
In 2006, Bahr appeared in her first lead role in a major motion picture, playing Amy Butlin in Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector alongside Larry the Cable Guy. In May 2006 she had a supporting role as Leonard Hofstadter's girlfriend in the original pilot of "The Big Bang Theory". In November 2006, she opened her one woman show Dai ("Enough") at the Culture Project in New York City. In the show, she plays ten different characters in a Tel Aviv restaurant. In 2007, Bahr was a part of the controversial film Poughkeepsie Tapes. In this she plays an interviewed news broadcaster. In August 2007, she performed a completely sold-out run of the show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which was presented by Paul Lucas Productions, and in March 2009 she performed it in Shaw Theatre in London.
Her memoir about her travels through Asia, titled Dork Whore was published in March 2007.
She moved to Los Angeles after a city truck injured her when it collided with her bicycle on Great Jones Street in New York.
Bahr currently does a weekly commentary on KCRW entitled "Social Studies", featuring one of her characters - Svetlana, Russian lady of the night and proprietor of the "St. Petersburg House of Discreet Pleasure." Svetlana was also a recurring guest on The Marc Maron Show, and has done regular pieces for Kurt Anderson's show on WNYC's Studio 360. Svetlana is now the star of her own comedy series, the pilot which can be seen on Funny or Die. Svetlana is also a stand-alone series available on HD Net.
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