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Actress: Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Persis Khambatta was born on October 2, 1948 in Bombay, India. When aged 16, as Femina Miss India, she entered Miss Universe 1965, dressed in off-the-rack clothes she bought at the last minute. Khambatta became a model for companies such as Revlon. Her biggest acting break was getting the role of ...
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1968–1998. Major. competition (s) Femina Miss India 1965. (Winner) (Miss Photogenic) Miss Universe 1965. (Unplaced) Persis Khambatta (2 October 1948 – 18 August 1998) was an Indian actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder best remembered for playing Lieutenant Ilia in the feature film Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979).
Persis Khambatta (2 October 1948 – 18 August 1998; age 49) was an Indian model and actress who played Ilia (and the Ilia probe) in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Khambatta was born in Mumbai, India in a middle-class Parsi family. At age 13, she was hired for advertisements for a soap brand after photos of her taken accidentally by a famous photographer became popular. This led to a ...
Aug 18, 1998 · From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Persis Khambatta (2 October 1948 – 18 August 1998) was an Indian model, actress and author. She was best known for her role as Lieutenant Ilia in the 1979 feature film Star Trek: The Motion Picture. The name Persis is Greek meaning Persian woman and can be found in the Bible. Description above from the Wikipedia article Persis Khambatta, licensed under ...
PERSIS KHAMBATTA, the former Miss India and international model, created cinematic history by appearing in 1979 as the first bald film heroine, in Star Trek: the Motion Picture, the hugely ...
