Tasia Valenza

Tasia Valenza is an American actress. She is most known for being the voice of Poison Ivy in the Arkham series from 2009 to 2015 as well as in a number of other video games, such as Sniper Wolf in Metal Gear Solid and her various roles in the Star Wars Universe.

Personal life Tasia Valenza's twin brother is a former television writer and now solar marketing consultant Tor Alexander Valenza. She also has an older brother, Greg. Valenza has been married to Harvey Stern since 1995 and has three children.

Career In the early part of her career, Valenza played the role of Dottie Thornton on All My Children from 1982 to 1986, earning a Daytime Emmy nomination for her work. She also showed up in a guest star appearance in the fifth season of The A-Team, and a recurring role as Lieutenant Winslow in Space: Above and Beyond. She also portrayed Jodie Abramovitz in Aaron Spelling's drama series The Heights.

Valenza appeared in the 1988 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Coming of Age" as a Vulcan Academy entrance exam cadet along side Wesley Crusher. She returned to Star Trek in 2017 with a voiceover role in the first two episodes of Star Trek: Discovery as the computer voice of the USS Shenzhou.

Valenza is best known to play female characters in comic book based video games, predominantly villains in video games such as Batman: Arkham Asylum, where she played fan-favorite character Poison Ivy, as well as multiple Spider-Man games. In January 2023, Valenza guest voiced a character, Tawni Ames, the Separatist governor of Desix, who opposes the Empire's occupation, on Star Wars: The Bad Batch. She also had a recurring role as the Jedi Shaak Ti in Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

Filmography

Film Year Title RoleNotes 1984 Crackers Maria 1985 Rappin' Dixie 1987 My Demon Lover Miguela

Television Year Title Role Notes 1982–1986 All My Children Dottie Thornton Martin 1986 The A-Team Bonita Gallegos Episode: "The Theory of Revolution" 1987 Fame Denise Hudson Episode: "Stradi-Various" 21 Jump Street Lacey King Episode: "16 Blown to 35" Hunter Lupe Ortiz Episode: "Playing God" Highway to Heaven Maria Rojas Episode: "Why Punish the Children" 1988 Supercarrier Extra Episode: "Deadly Enemies (Pilot)" Star Trek: The Next Generation T'Shanik Episode: "Coming of Age" 1989 Cheers Customer Episode: "Don't Paint Your Chickens" 1991 Good Grief Elke Episode: "13th Episode Anniversary Special" Sometimes They Come Back Kate Television film Adam-12 Lucinda Caralis Episode: "Drive-By" 1992 The Heights Jodie Abramowitz 13 episodes 1995 Duckman Live Action "Bernice" Actress Episode: "Papa Oom M.O.W. M.O.W." 1995–1996 Space: Above and Beyond Lt. Kelly Anne Winslow 4 episodes 1996 One West Waikiki Amy Shigeta Episode: "Guilty" 1999–2001 The Bold and the Beautiful Suzanne 2017–2018 Star Trek: Discovery USS Shenzhou Computer (voice) 6 episodes

Animation

Video games