  tamara "tami" stronach (born july 31, 1972, tehran, iran) is an israeli american dancer and choreographer who has also worked as an actress. ==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 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. 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. she has a leading role in the upcoming czech fantasy film, poslednÃ­ z aporveru, a tale of two children trying to save their world from destruction. 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 [[synt
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