Miko Mayama

Miko Mayama is the actress who played Tamura in the first season episode . She filmed her scenes between Tuesday and Tuesday at Desilu Stage 9 and Stage 10.
== Biography ==
Mayama was born and grew up in Japan where she was part of a Kabuki acting group. She met actor while he was filming a movie there. Reynolds brought her to the United States and the couple were in a relationship for three years. She was later married to for a short time, and still retains his last name. 
Mayama's television and movie career started in the mid-1960s, lasted until the late 1970s, and included a little over twenty roles. Her earliest film roles were uncredited parts in (1966, featuring Samantha Eggar and Original Series star George Takei) and (1967, starring Robert Walker and Valora Noland). These were followed with supporting roles in (1969, co-starring Jeff Corey), (1970, with James Gregory and Keye Luke), and (1973, starring Fred Williamson).
Besides Star Trek, other TV shows on which she appeared include I Spy, It Takes a Thief (with Malachi Throne), The Flying Nun (in an episode with Gregory Sierra), The Beverly Hillbillies, Ironside, Medical Center (with Glenn Corbett), Hawaii Five-O, Kojak, and Mannix (with Clyde Kusatsu and Bill Zuckert). She was also a regular on the NBC series Hey, Landlord, which debuted the same week as Star Trek but lasted only one season. Mayama was last seen in a 1979 episode of , with David Ogden Stiers.
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