Tamara "Tami" StronachTamara "Tami" Stronach, Israeli-American choreographer, dancer and actress, was born in Tehran on July 31, 1972. With an Israeli mother and Scottish father, her father, David Stronach, is an archaeologist expert in ancient Persian ruins and a professor at the University of Berkeley in California. Her mother, Ruth Vaadia, also a renowned archaeologist, met her future husband during excavations in Tehran. Tami is the second of their children. The Iranian revolution of 1978 caused the Stronach family to flee the country, first to Israel, then to the United States. As a child, Tami Stronach was drawn to dance until the cinema came looking for her.
At the age of twelve she played a role that would lead her to eternal glory: the child empress in the classic The Neverending Story (The Neverending StoryUSA-Germany, 1984), directed by Wolfgang Petersen.
Since 1996 she is part of the dance company Neta Pulvermacher and Dancers, performing in events all over the world and also working as a choreographer. She is currently a member of the Neta Dance Company.
For film, Tami Stronach has been cast in two additional films, Last Children of Aprover (Poslední z AporveruCzech Republic, 2019), by Tomáš Krejcí, about children's attempts to save the life of a living planet, and Man and Witch: the Dance of Thousands Steps (UK, 2024), by Michael Hines, a fantasy genre film that pays homage to the now-classic films of the 1980s, including Petersen's film.
The actress and dancer in recent years has been called upon to share her memories and experiences in the mythical film based on the novel by Michael Ende, in documentaries such as Life after the Neverending Story, directed by Lisa Downs.
