Camille Saviola

Camille Saviola was the actress who portrayed Kai Opaka in four episodes of . She also appeared as an Opaka Alien.
A native of The Bronx, New York City, Italian-American Saviola graduated from the prestigious High School of Music and Art in Manhattan and dropped out of college after a year in order to learn acting. She was the singer of the 1970s female rock band the Margo Lewis Explosion, and became a successful character actress on stage, film, and television. Her Broadway credits include the part of Mama Maddelena in the original production of Nine and Matron Mama Morton in the revival of Chicago.
Between 2006 and 2009, Saviola had a recurring role on the television series Entourage as Turtle's mother. She was cast by in three of his films, Broadway Danny Rose (1984), The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), and Shadows and Fog (1991, with Wallace Shawn). Her other feature film credits include Betsy's Wedding (with Bibi Besch), Addams Family Values (1993, with Christopher Lloyd and Carel Struycken), Penn & Teller Get Killed (1989) and Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989, with Jerry Rector, James Harper, Frank Military, and Mike Starr).
In 1994, Saviola had a single yet highly memorable appearance in the hit sitcom Friends, a series which also starred Michael G. Hagerty, who portrayed the Friends landlord Mr. Treeger, Terri Garr as the mother of the character Phoebe Buffay, and Robert Costanzo as the father of Joey Tribbiani. Saviola played an aggressive patron at a laundromat in the episode "The One With The East German Laundry Detergent". 
She also played guest roles on shows such as (with Mädchen Amick, Leland Orser, and Scott Grimes), (with Steve Larson and Erick Avari), , (with Terry Farrell and Earl Billings), , (with Enrique Murciano), and (with Tina Lifford and Roger Aaron Brown). Her last on-screen credit was a recurring role in four episodes of Younger in 2018-19.
Saviola passed away on at the age of 71 in Los Angeles. 
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