Salome Jens
Date of birth: 1935-05-08
Place of birth: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Known for: Acting
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Biography
Salome Jens (born May 8, 1935 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American actress. She is perhaps best-known for portraying the Female Changeling on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. She also appeared in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation as an "Ancient humanoid", a member of the race responsible for populating the galaxy with humanoid life forms. She had previously played Clark Kent's mother Martha Kent on the popular TV series Superboy. She also appeared in the 1966 film Seconds by John Frankenheimer, in a 1963 episode of The Outer Limits, "Corpus Earthling," and in 1981's Harry's War. She also appeared in the "I Spy" episode "A Room with a Rack" in 1967, as a globe-trotting pilot friend of Kelly Robinson and Alexander Scott. Jens graduated Bay View High School with a 96 average and was crowned Miss Bay View at the long running South Shore Water Frolics. Later in life she remarked that "the only time I can imagine contemplating suicide would be if I was told that I had to go back and live in Milwaukee forever." She has been married twice, first to film actor Ralph Meeker, and then to television personality Lee Leonard. Her performances in the theatre have been rare but well regarded. She nabbed the lion's share of attention in the small role of "The Thief" in the New York premiere production of Jean Genet's The Balcony. She won excellent notices playing Josie in A Moon for the Misbegotten at the downtown Circle-in-the-Square theatre in the late 1960's in New York, and she did a Cleopatra at Stratford. Jens' debut was in the title role of Terror from the Year 5000, which was later featured in the 8th Season of Mystery Science Theater 3000. She subsequently had major roles in Angel Baby and the television series Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. In 1971, she also appeared as a widow with two children in the 1971 Gunsmoke episode, "Captain Sligo," with Richard Basehart in the title role as an Irish cattle buyer who courts her. She has a very distinctive and sultry voice, and has also narrated a number of documentaries including The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century and the film "Clan of the Cave Bear" starring Darryl Hannah.
Movie Credits
Coming Out Under Fire
1994-03-01
A historical account of military policy regarding homosexuality during World War II. The documentary
Seconds
1966-10-05
An unhappy middle-aged banker agrees to a procedure that will fake his death and give him a complete
The Fool Killer
1965-04-28
After the Civil War, a southern boy, aged 12, runs away from his foster home, wanders the countrysid
The Deadly Dream
1971-09-25
A scientist keeps having dreams that he is marked for murder by a mysterious tribunal for something
Terror from the Year 5000
1958-10-30
Prof. Erling and his financial backer Victor build a prototype time machine to snatch objects from t
Barefoot in Athens
1966-11-11
The last few days in the life of Socrates, including his trial.
Tomorrow's Child
1982-03-22
The wife of a research geneticist agrees to the experimental procedure of a 'test-tube baby' by havi
Cats & Dogs
2001-07-04
When a professor develops a vaccine that eliminates human allergies to dogs, he unwittingly upsets t
Grace Kelly
1983-02-21
The fairy tale story of the actress who became a princess is told in this biography that traces her
Showdown at Ulcer Gulch
1956-01-01
Short promotional film for a Saturday Evening Post sales convention.
Sharon: Portrait of a Mistress
1977-10-31
A woman's inability to make a lasting commitment results in her having a string of affairs with marr
Rock Hudson: Dark and Handsome Stranger
2010-02-13
Rock Hudson was a virile screen idol who was the epitome of clean-cut masculinity. He was one of the
Cloud Dancer
1980-05-29
An aerobatic pilot comes to terms with his work, his photographer ex-lover and a brash newcomer.
The Two Lives of Carol Letner
1981-10-14
A former call-girl who has left the profession behind to pursue a college career is recruited by the
Peter and Paul and the Christian Revolution
2003-04-09
Two thousand years ago, in the Roman province of Judea, Jesus was crucified by imperial troops. Tho
Uncommon Valor
1983-01-22
The pilot for an unsold weekly series, Uncommon Valor stresses the courage and resourceful of a team
The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story
1980-05-25
This Olympics film, tied in with the planned 1980 games from which the United States subsequently wi
The Clan of the Cave Bear
1986-01-17
Natural changes have the clans moving. Iza, medicine woman of the "Clan of the Cave Bear" finds litt
Me, Natalie
1969-07-13
Since she was a child, Natalie Miller has always thought she was an ugly ducking. Despite her mother
Norm of the North
2016-01-14
Polar bear Norm and his three Arctic lemming buddies are forced out into the world once their icy ho
Cast the First Stone
1989-11-13
After Diane Martin is raped by a hitchhiker and becomes pregnant, she must face the pious faculty at
Savages
1972-06-27
A tribe of primitive "mudpeople" encounter a croquet ball, rolling through their forest. Following i
The Boy Who Talked to Badgers
1975-09-14
A young boy gets along better with the animals he befriends around his family's Canadian farm than w
Playing with Fire
1985-04-13
Gary Coleman stars as a teenage arsonist. The authorities, friends, and neighbors warn his absentee
Angel Baby
1961-05-14
A woman who believes she has been chosen by God to heal people is taken in by a greedy promoter and
In the Glitter Palace
1977-02-27
The ex-girlfriend of a lawyer, who left him for a lesbian lover, asks him to defend her lover in a m
Such Good Friends
1971-12-16
Julie Messinger, a repressed woman, grapples with her hidden passions when a routine hospital visit
A Killer in the Family
1983-10-30
Three teenage boys break their father out of prison only to discover that he is a murderous sociopat
The Lottery
1996-09-29
Returning to his small hometown of Icara, Maine, a man discovers its horrible secret -- a bizarre, c
House of Evil
1974-05-14
A missing teenager reappears and tells police she had been imprisoned by two sisters that she believ
The Satan Murders
1974-01-11
Assured that it's a joke, a berated wife makes a deal with a local Satan occultist for the death of
I'm Losing You
1998-09-16
Based on Bruce Wagner's best selling novel, "I'm Losing You" is the gripping tale of a wealthy Los A
Diary of the Dead
1976-01-01
An unemployed man who lives with his wife and overbearing mother-in-law sees an opportunity to relie
Just Between Friends
1986-03-21
Holly and Sandy strike up an instant friendship; they don't know however that they have more in comm
A Matter of Life and Death
1981-01-13
The true story of a nurse who spent her life caring for terminally ill patients.
Harry's War
1981-03-06
After his aunt dies of a heart attack while fighting the IRS, Harry Johnson decides to take up the c
Finding Hannah
2023-01-13
On December 13th 1942, 3000 Jewish men, women and children deported from France were gassed on arriv
Henry James' The Jolly Corner
1975-01-01
Expatriate Spencer Brydon returns to his now-empty childhood home, and finds himself obsessed with w
Parker Adderson, Philosopher
1974-01-08
A Union prisoner-of-War, captured behind Confederate lines, and condemned to be shot,, argues with h
The Legacy: The Passion of the Christ
2007-01-30