Tasia Valenza Biography

American actress

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, Sniper Wolf in Metal Gear Solid and her various roles in the Star Wars Universe.

Personal life

Tasia Valenza is the daughter of former actor and restaurant consultant Frank Valenza and Gloria Valenza. Her 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. 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

Television

• 21 Jump Street – Lacey King
• Adam-12 – Lucinda Caralis
• The A-Team – Bonita Gallegos
• All My Children – Dottie Thornton Martin
• The Bold and the Beautiful – Suzanne
• Cheers – Customer
• Dirty Little Secret – Malina, Admirer
• Danger Rangers – Gabriella, Firefighter #3
• Fame – Denise Hudson
• Good Grief – Elke
• The Heights – Jodie Abramowitz
• Highway to Heaven – Maria Rojas
• Hunter – Lupe Ortiz
• My Demon Lover – Miguela
• One West Waikiki – Amy Shigeta
• Sometimes They Come Back – Kate
• Space: Above and Beyond – Lt. Kelly Anne Winslow
• Supercarrier – Extra

Animation

Video games

• Age of Empires III – Amelia Black
• Age of Mythology – Reginleif
• Age of Mythology: The *ans – Reginleif
• Battlezone II: Combat Commander – Yelena Shabayev
• Danger Rangers – Gabriella
• Epic Seven - Command Model Laika
• The Elder Scrolls Online – Additional Voices
• The Evil Within – Myra Hanson
• King's Quest: Mask of Eternity – Sara, Sylph
• Metal Gear Solid: Integral – Sniper Wolf
• Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer – Nadaj, Female Hardened Battler, Female Dwarf
• Saints Row 2 – Monica Hughes
• Stormrise – Vantage
• Too Human – Hel

References

External links

• Official website
• Tasia Valenza at IMDb
• Tasia Valenza on Twitter