Acting Appreciation
If you are a Star Trek geek like myself, you'd probably recognize Lieutenant Ilia, the Deltan Starfleet officer, as Indian model/actress Persis Khambatta.
Persis was born in Mumbai, India on October 2, 1948. In 1965, she won the Femina Miss India contest, and she also participated in the Miss Universe pageant.
At the age of 19, she made her Bollywood debut in In the Arms of the Bombay Night. In 1979, she appeared in Star Trek: The Motion Picture as Lieutenant Ilia. Other movies followed such as Nighthawks, Megaforce, Warriors of the Lost World, My Beautiful Laudrette, Phoenix the Warrior. She also appeared in TV series such as Macgyver and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.
Persis died of a heart attack on August 18, 1998. She was 49 years old.
One cool factoid is that Persis Khambatta was the first Indian citizen to present at the Academy Awards in 1980.
via Movieclips
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persis_Khambatta
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