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France Nuyen (born France Nguyễn Vân Nga on 31 July 1939) is a French-American actress, model, and psychological counselor. She is known to film audiences for playing romantic leads in South Pacific (1958), Satan Never Sleeps (1962), and A Girl Named Tamiko (also 1962), and for playing Ying-Ying St. Clair in The Joy Luck Club (1993).
With William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, France Nuyen. While transporting an arrogant, demanding princess for a political marriage, Captain Kirk must cope both with her biochemical ability to force him to love her, as well as sabotage on his ship.
France Nuyen was born on 31 July 1939 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. She is an actress, known for Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973), The Joy Luck Club (1993) and South Pacific (1958). She was previously married to Robert Culp and Dr. Thomas Gaspar Morell.
France Nuyen (born 31 July 1939; age 84) is the actress who played Elaan in the Star Trek: The Original Series third season episode "Elaan of Troyius". She filmed her scenes between Monday 3 June 1968 and Monday 10 June 1968 at Desilu Stage 9.
Jul 30, 2015 · Most Star Trek fans will surely agree: France Nuyen, who played Elaan in The Original Series episode “ Elaan of Troyius ,” was one of the most strikingly beautiful women ever to appear on the show.
Jul 31, 2023 · Nuyen was born in Marseille and grew up in France. She came to the US in 1956 and was living in New York when director Josh Logan, who, she notes in a 2021 interview, spoke French, hired her after one meeting for South Pacific. This was her film debut, in 1958.
" Elaan of Troyius " is the thirteenth episode of the third season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. Written and directed by John Meredyth Lucas, it was first broadcast on December 20, 1968. In the episode, the Enterprise ferries a spoiled princess whose betrothal, it is hoped, will bring peace to a star system at war.
