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Tami Stronach - March 24th, 2006

Found out who played the part in the Never Ending Story of the Empress. Seems her name is Tami Stronach. Here is an excerpt about her from Wikipedia:

Tamara Stronach (born July 31, 1972) is a dancer and choreographer, and has worked as an actress.

Stronach was born in Tehran, Iran to Scottish and Israeli parents [1]. Her father, David Stronach, is a renowned archeologist of ruins of Ancient Persia (modern-day Iran and Iraq) and a professor at UC Berkeley. Her family fled during the Iranian Revolution.

Stronach provided an impressive acting debut in her famous role as ?The Childlike Empress? in The NeverEnding Story (1984), a film adaptation of the noveI Die Unendliche Geschichte (The Neverending Story) by Michael Ende. She has not since had many known acting roles; she has recently explained that her parents preferred that she not further pursue acting to avoid the possible dangers many child actors in both movie and television sometimes encounter. She has nevertheless since acted in Chambre at La Ma Ma, and she has further studied acting with Laura Esterman.

Since the days of her childhood role, she has become a member of a well-respected dance troupe, the Neta Dance Company, joining them in 1996. She has also performed on her own and choreographed well-accepted work: the majority of reviews (both in her own dancing and in her creations on stage) are positive, praising her understanding of the human soul and her ability to convey with subtlety, simplicity, and acuity. Examples of this include both ?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 due for 2006.

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