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Tanya Lemani was born on 17 March 1945 in Iran. She is an actress, known for Star Trek (1966), Big Daddy (1969) and Warriors of Stone.
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Aug 24, 2016 · Tanya Lemani, who played Kara in Star Trek: The Original Series, shares her memories of working on the show, dating Shatner and Doohan, and attending Star Trek conventions. Learn about her career, her costume, and her life stories in this exclusive interview.
Learn about Tanya Lemani George, an Iranian born Russian who became a Hollywood star and a belly dancer in Star Trek. Explore her biography, photos, videos, books and shop for memorabilia.
May 19, 2024 · Tanya Lemani, an Iranian born Russian who moved to the US and began a dancing career in the 60’s. Plucked from her ballet class at the age of 16, Tanya gets her first job at the Flamingo in Las Vegas.
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Tania Lemani (born 17 March 1939; age 85), born Tatiana Soleimani-Zadeh, is a former actress and dancer who played Kara in the Star Trek: The Original Series second season episode "Wolf in the Fold". She filmed her scenes on Monday 3 July 1967 at Desilu Stage 10.
Tania was born in Iran to Russian parents. When she was 13 years old, her family came to America where Lemani began her career with a classical ballet dance troupe, but when she traveled to Las Vegas in search of more work, she was offered a job as a belly dancer, not a ballet dancer. She ultimately got her own show in Vegas, as well as offers to dance on television and film. She also began receiving more serious acting roles after a member of her show's audience offered her a role in the pilot for Alexander the Great, starring William Shatner in the title role (although the pilot failed to be picked up as a series). Regardless, Lemani retired from acting in 1969.
One of her earliest film appearances came in the 1964 comedy A Global Affair, which also featured Nehemiah Persoff and fellow Original Series guest actress Barbara Bouchet. She went on to appear in such films as Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (in which she, Sabrina Scharf, Victor Tayback, and George D. Wallace appear unbilled, along with billed actors Michael Strong and Phillip Pine) and Gambit (with Roger C. Carmel, Arnold Moss, John Abbott and Vic Tayback) in 1966. She also had a supporting role in Joseph Sargent's 1968 drama To Hell with Heroes, along with William Marshall and Sid Haig, written by Harold Livingston. In total, she had roles in nearly twenty films.
On television, she has appeared on The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (with Arlene Martel), I Dream of Jeannie, Get Smart (with Karen Steele), McHale's Navy (including an episode with David Opatoshu), It Takes a Thief (with Nancy Kovack and her "Wolf in the Fold" co-star Charles Dierkop), and The Flying Nun (with Michael Pataki and Sandra Smith), among others. In addition, she has performed in dozens of stage productions.
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Tanya Lemani was born on March 17, 1945 in Iran. She is an actress, known for Star Trek (1966), Big Daddy (1969) and Warriors of Stone.
In the full interview recorded at Carnival of Stars, SIDEWALKS host Richard R. Lee talks to actress and belly dancer Tanya Lemani about her career in TV and film, her autobiography "Have...
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