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

Tasia Valenza is the daughter of former actor and restaurant consultant Frank Valenza and Gloria Valenza.[citation needed ] 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.

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.[citation needed ] 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.