Tami Stronach
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Tami Stronach | |
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Born | Tamara Stronach July 31, 1972 Tehran, Iran |
Occupation | Actress, Dancer |
Spouse(s) | Greg Steinbruner (m.2010-present; 1 child) |
Children | Maya (b. 2011) |
Tamara "Tami" Stronach (born July 31, 1972, Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian American dancer and choreographer who has also worked as an actress.
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Early life
Stronach was born to Israeli and Scottish parents in Tehran. Her father, David Stronach, is a renowned archeologist of ruins of Ancient Persia (modern-day Iran) and a professor at UC Berkeley. David met his wife, an Israeli archeologist named Ruth Vaadia, in Tehran, where they both worked on excavations at a Tehran site. They got married shortly afterwards, and Tami is their second child.
The family fled to Israel during the Iranian Revolution[1] in 1978 where they lived for a few years until the family had to relocate again to America for a job David got as a professor of archeology.
Career
Stronach made her acting debut as "The Childlike Empress" in The Neverending Story (1984), a film adaptation of the novel Die Unendliche Geschichte (The Neverending Story) by Michael Ende. She has not since had many known acting roles; her parents preferred that she did not pursue any further acting to avoid the possible dangers many child actresses in both movies and television sometimes encounter.[2] She has nevertheless since acted in the play "Chambre" at the La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, and she has further studied acting with Laura Esterman.[3] She has a leading role in the upcoming Czech fantasy film, Poslední z Aporveru, a tale of two children trying to save their world from destruction.[4]
She also released a 45 rpm single around the same time as The Neverending Story entitled Tami Stronach - Fairy Queen. The songs on the album are called "Fairy Queen" and "Riding On a Rainbow." The tracks are of similar synthpop orientation as the Giorgio Moroder/Limahl Neverending Story theme, and may have been an attempt to capitalize on its success.[5]
Since the days of her childhood role, she has become a member of a well-respected Israeli dance troupe based in the U.S, the Neta Dance Company, joining them in 1996, she performed with the company mostly in places like the U.S, Israel and Europe.[6] She has also choreographed and performed her own works, including "The Maid and the Marmalade" and "Contain yourself, darling." While her own work has typically been performed in New York City, she has begun more recently to take this abroad, such as with a tour of Australia in July 2006.[7]
She has been married to Greg Steinbruner since April 30, 2010. They have a daughter named Maya[8] (born in January 2011).
Filmography
- 1984 - The NeverEnding Story - The Childlike Empress / Southern Oracle
- 2008 - Fredy a Zlatovláska - Panenka z krámku kuriozit
Awards and nominations
- 1985 - Young Artist Award for Best Young Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture Musical, Comedy, Adventure or Drama - Nominated
References
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- ↑ [1] Archived May 27, 2006 at the Wayback Machine
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- ↑ [3] Archived September 17, 2007 at the Wayback Machine
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Dance and choreography reviews
External links
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Wikiquote has quotations related to: Tami Stronach |
- Tami Stronach Dance Website
- Tami Stronach at the Internet Movie Database
- Moviehole MailBag 5/5/05
- Neta Dance Company: The Company
- Stronach, Tami. "Tami Stronach 'Mother Tongue'", Tami Stronach Dance. Accessed September 27, 2007.
- Waldbaum, Jane C. "From the President: Gentleman and Scholar", Archaeology Magazine, Volume 57 Number 2, March/April 2004. Accessed September 27, 2007.
- "FORGOTTEN NEVER ENDING STORY STAR RETURNS", ContactMusic.com, June 5, 2005. Accessed September 27, 2007.
- Morris, Clint. "Movie Hole Mailbag - 5/5/05", Moviehole.net, May 5, 2005. Accessed September 27, 2007.
- Neta Dance Company [the company], Netacompany.org. Accessed September 27, 2007.
- "TAMI STRONACH fairy queen (by ralph siegel)", CDandLP.com. Accessed September 27, 2007.
- Stronach, Tami. "Tami Stronach Resume", Tami Stronach Dance. Accessed September 27, 2007.
- "New York Musical Theatre Festival", The New York Musical Theater Festival (official Web site). Accessed September 27, 2007.
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- 1972 births
- American film actresses
- Jewish American actresses
- Iranian emigrants to Israel
- Israeli emigrants to the United States
- Living people
- People from Tehran
- American people of Iranian descent
- American people of Scottish descent
- American female dancers
- Israeli female dancers
- American stage actresses
- Israeli stage actresses
- 20th-century American actresses
- 21st-century American actresses
- American child actresses