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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 ...
Persis Khambatta was born on October 2, 1948, in Mumbai, India in a middle class Parsi family. Her father left the family when she was two. It was her mother who single-handedly raised her. Her venture into films and television wasn’t a well thought of or a planned move.
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 ...
Oct 2, 2019 · 02 October, 2019 11:24 am IST. New Delhi: Best known for going bald for her role in the highly successful sci-fi film, Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), Persis Khambatta was a Mumbai-born model-turned-actor. She made waves in Hollywood and starred alongside prominent actors like Michael Caine, Michael Shatner and Sylvester Stallone.
Aug 26, 2019 · Star Trek to Success: Persis Khambatta, the First Indian Woman to Stamp a Mark in Hollywood. She made hearts flutter as a fierce and breathtaking Deltan Starfleet officer on board the ‘USS Enterprise’, in the first instalment of the iconic American sci-fi film series - Star Trek. By Jovita Aranha. August 26, 2019.
Persis Khambatta, best remembered for her work in the popular film "Star Trek-The Motion Picture," began her career in her native India. Named Miss India in 1965, four years after she began ...
Persis Khambatta on the set of The Motion Picture (The Propstop) Gene Roddenberry created the character of Ilia for the aborted second Star Trek television series Phase II . The show’s 1977 bible described the young navigator as “breathtakingly beautiful” and second in intelligence only to the ship’s Vulcan science officer.
