| Persis
Khambatta
is best remembered for her role as the Deltan navigator, Lieutenant
Ilia in Star Trek The Motion Picture
- a role in which she revealed her long legs and bare
head.
She also appeared
in the movies Nighthawks, Megaforce,
The Wilby
Conspiracy and My
Beautiful Laundrette. She guest-starred on such television
shows as Hunter, McGyver
and the pilot episode of Lois and Clark:
The New Adventures of Superman.
Persis was an
internationally reknowned model, former Miss India and Miss World,
and a "movie-star" much loved by millions of India's avid movie
- goers. Shortly before her sudden death, Persis wrote a
large-format coffee table book about the history of the "Miss
India" pageant entitled Pride of India.
Persis
Khambatta
suffered a massive heart attack and died on Tuesday 18 August
1998 at a hospital in Bombay, India. She was just 49 years
of age.
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