Marina Sirtis

At 69 years old, Marina Sirtis has this physical status:

Marina Sirtis (born 29 March 1955) is a British-American actress.

She is best known for her appearances in the Star Trek franchise as Counselor Deanna Troi and the four sequel films, as well as other appearances in the Star Trek franchise.

Early life

Marina Sirtis was born in Hackney, London, and the daughter of Greek parents, Despina, a tailor's assistant, and John Sirtis. She was born in Harringay, North London. Sirtis claims that the teenage sons of her babysitter sexually molested her when she was three years old. Sirtis was suffering from an eating disorder that resulted from the assault's trauma. She had been suffering from the illness for 20 years, went into therapy in the 1990s and was able to cope with the trauma and learn how to eat healthier.

Sirtis clandestinely auditioned for drama school against her parents' wishes, eventually being accepted to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Sirtis graduated from Guildhall in 1976 and began her career by joining the Connaught Theatre.

Sirtis immigrated to the United States in 1986, settling in Los Angeles to advance her career. She became a naturalized citizen of the United States later this year.

Personal life

In 1992, Sirtis married Michael Lamper, an actor and rock guitarist. Lamper died in his sleep on December 7, 2019. Sirtis returned to London in 2021, citing Lamper's death, rising tensions in America, and a desire for career opportunities in British film and television.

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Career

Sirtis began her career as a member of the Connaught Theatre in Worthing, West Sussex, in 1976. Nic Young's directed her appearance in Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw and in Hamlet's Ophelia.

Sirtis appeared in numerous films before her appearance in Star Trek. She took part in a whip battle with Dunaway in 1983 Faye Dunaway's The Wicked Lady. Sirtis' character in the Charles Bronson film Death Wish 3 is a rape survivor. She appears in the film Blind Date as a prostitute stabbed by a madman.

Several guest stars appeared on British television shows among other early works. Sirtis appeared in Raffles (1977), Who Pays the Ferryman (1977), Hazell (1979), Minder (1979), The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1986). She appeared in a 1979 Cinzano Bianco television commercial starring Leonard Rossiter and Joan Collins, in which Collins was splattered with drink.

Sirtis immigrated to the United States in 1986. Gene Roddenberry was inspired to audition for a role after seeing the film Aliens with Bob Justman, which starred the well-known Latina character Vasquez, played by Jenette Goldstein, after seeing the film Aliens with Bob Justman. Sirtis and Denise Crosby began by auditioning for each other's upcoming roles on The Next Generation. Lt. Macha Hernandez, the Security Chief, was supposed to be Sirtis' character. Gene Roddenberry decided to change them, and Macha Hernandez became Tasha Yar. Sirtis recalls that she was actually packing to return to the United Kingdom on the day she received the call offering her the role because her six-month visa had expired.

Deanna Troi is half-human, half-Betazoid. Her Betazoid skills enable her to read others's emotions. She is the ship's advisor and looking after the crew's safety and serving as a trusted advisor to Captain Picard, who is based on the bridge. The writers had trouble writing for Troi at first, and they'd even left her out of four first-season episodes. Sirtis felt her job was in jeopardy after the first season, but was overjoyed when Roddenberry led her aside at Jonathan Frakes' wedding and told her that the season-two premiere episode would center on Troi.

Sirtis appeared on all seven seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and her character was developed from a more passive therapist to a more stern Starfleet officer. She has claimed that her favorite episode is season six's "Face of the Enemy," in which she is kidnapped and surgically transformed to appear as a Romulan. Troi's transition to a standard Starfleet uniform in the same season as "Chain of Command" restored the character's dignity and enthusiasm in playing her, as well as her understanding of her. "It covered up my cleavage and, in the end, I got all my brains back." So I got all my brains back and I was able to do things that I hadn't been allowed to do for five or six years. I went on away teams, I was in charge of them, I had my pips back, I had phasers, and the whole system was amazing. "I was completely thrilled."

During her time on the show, she became close friends with Jonathan Frakes (who played Commander Riker), Michael Dorn (Lieutenant Worf), and Brent Spiner (who played Lieutenant Commander Data). At her wedding, the latter two cast members were groomsmen.

During the seven-year run of Star Trek: The Next Generation and subsequent films, she wore black-coloured contact lenses because her character had black eyes. Her own eyes are pall brown.

For her role as Troi, she often wore hairpieces. Sirtis' real hair was only slightly shorter and, although curtly, it was not as bouffant as her character's. Sirtis' real hair was used in the pilot episode and also in the first six episodes of season six, in which Troi sported a more natural looking pony-tailed look. She was also asked to develop an accent (described as a blend of Eastern European and Israeli), but her natural accent is Cockney. Over time, the accent was refined and became more Americanized.

Sirtis reprised her role in the feature films Star Trek Generations (1994), Star Trek: Insurrection (1996), and Star Trek: Nemesis (2002).

Sirtis was thrilled to be able to partake in some comedy in Star Trek: First Contact, saying, "I loved it because it introduced us to a new face of Troi we'd never seen before." The door has remained open, and the whole wacky, zany Troi thing has continued into the upcoming film, which is great for me because I like doing things that are different." "I had an inkling that I was going to have a good part in this film because John Logan was such a huge fan of the character," Sirtis said of her role in Star Trek: Nemesis. "I knew that he'd do her some justice."

Sirtis appeared in Star Trek: Voyager for three episodes towards the end of the series (1999 and 2000), as well as the series finale of Star Trek: Enterprise (2005). In the 2020 Star Trek: Picard episode "Nepenthe," Deanna Troi reprised her role as Deanna Troi. In "No Small Parts," the first-season finale of Star Trek: Lower Decks, she reprised her role.

Sirtis returned to the United Kingdom in 1990 to film a drama special titled One Last Chance for the BBC, during his filming of Star Trek: The Next Generation. In 1992, she appeared in an episode of The Fifth Corner and appeared in The Lost in Time, a short-lived film. Sirtis continued to work regularly after the conclusion of Star Trek: The Next Generation's 1994 release. In the film Heaven Help Us, she was an alienation from previous roles as an assaulted wife.

Demona appeared in the animated Disney television series Gargoyles for two seasons beginning in 1994. Frakes (as the voice of David Xanatos), Spiner and Dorn, two of her Next Generation co-stars, also contributed to the program. For an episode of the unmade animated film Team Atlantis, she portrayed the character once more.

Sirtis appeared in Gadgetman, a British made-for-television film from 1996. She appeared in Diagnosis: Murder in 1998 as a race-track owner. In 1999, the independent film Paradise Lost starring Sirtis was released.

Sirtis returned to science-fiction television in a variety of roles, beginning with The Outer Limits in 1999. She appeared in Earth: Final Conflict, the same year as Gene Roddenberry's initial creation. She appeared in Stargate SG-1 as a Russian scientist. Sirtis was profiled in the UK's October 2000 issue of SFX magazine; the cover said, "Marina Sirtis is Everywhere," referring to her recreation of her character Deanna Troi on Star Trek: Voyager.

Sirtis made a highly publicised appearance on the long-running British hospital drama Casualty in 2001. She served as a lobbyist with skepticism about the National Health Service. When she meets a man with whom she is having an affair at a hotel, she is caught in an explosion. She appeared in the made-for-television films Terminal Error and Net Games in 2002 and 2003. She appeared in the ABC series Threat Matrix as a biological weapons scientist from Iraq in 2003.

Sirtis appeared in the film Spectres in 2004, and she received the Best Actor award at ShockerFest International Film Festival.

Sirtis appeared in the Academy Award-winning ensemble film Crash as the wife of the Persian shopkeeper. She appeared on The Closer in 2005, which was her second Middle Eastern appearance. She appeared in Without a Trace as a three-episode match-maker on Girlfriends, and in 2006, she reprised her role as a love match-maker. Sirtis appeared in Grendel's SyFy channel production in 2007, where she played Queen Onela. The Deep Below and Lesser of Three Evils were among the independent films that were released. In the critically acclaimed video game Mass Effect, she played Matriarch Benezia on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC.

In 2008, she appeared in a special edition of the Casualty spin-off show Holby City. Inalienable, a Star Trek alumnus Walter Koenig's script, was released the same year. "I actually play the Deputy Attorney General of the United States," Sirtis said of her role, "I'm a bad guy, a mean advocate."

In 2009, the direct-to-DVD sequels Green Street 2 and The Grudge 3 starring Sirtis were released. She co-starred in the British film 31 North 62 East as the prime minister's top aide; the prime minister's top aide had a limited theatrical debut in the United Kingdom. In the first episode of the short-lived hospital drama Three Rivers, Sirtis appeared. In the disaster film Annihilation Earth, she returned to SyFy in December 2009.

Sirtis appeared in two episodes of ABC Family's Make It Or Break It in 2010. Sirtis revealed in May that she would be the spokesperson for comic-book villain Queen Bee in the Young Justice animated film. She appeared on a variety of episodes from 2011 to its cancellation in 2013. Sirtis appeared on an episode of Grey's Anatomy in March 2011. She played an Iranian mother who was attending the hospital to attend a medical trial for Alzheimer's disease.

Sirtis co-starred in the vampire film Speed Demons in 2012, and the vampire film Speed Demons, which Sirtis co-starred, was released in pay-per-view format. In the same year, she appeared as a fortune teller in the Castlevania fan-made film on YouTube. On NCIS, she assumed a recurring role as the head of Mossad's NCIS. Orli Elbaz, the woman portrayed by Michael Nouri, succeeds Eli David (portrayed by Michael Nouri) and was introduced in the season-10 episode "Berlin" in April 2013. She appeared in the season 11 finale "Family First" in early October 2013, which aired in early October 2013.

In the web series Star Trek Continues, Sirtis voiced the Enterprise's computer.

Finders Keepers, a horror film released by the SyFy channel in 2014, co-starring Rebecca. Sirtis appeared in the British film A Dark Reflection, the following year, and in 2016, she appeared in the Hallmark Channel film My Summer Prince. Sirtis appeared in Dark Sublime on her London West End stage debut in 2019, playing Marianne, a freelance actor and now-forgotten symbol of a British sci-fi television show whose meeting with a fan changes both of their lives.

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