Tami Stronach

Tami Stronach (born summer 1972) is an actor, dancer, filmmaker, and professor. A childhood performance as the Childlike Empress in the 1984 film The NeverEnding Story led to a record deal and music video in Germany. Inappropriate attention to the young star led her to eschew acting, and instead focused on dancing. As an adult, she has branched into teaching, producing dance performances, filmmaking, and supporting child performers. Personal life Tami Stronach was born in summer 1972 in the Imperial State of Iran. Her parents were the archaeologists David Stronach from Scotland (1931–2020) and Ruth Stronach from Israel (; 1937–2017). Stronach, her sister Keren, and their parents fled the Iranian Revolution to Tel Aviv before moving to the United Kingdom and then to California in 1981 to allow David to teach at the University of California, Berkeley. By late 2014, Stronach and her daughter Maya (born ) lived in Brooklyn; Stronach was married to Greg Steinbruner as of mid-2020.