Somali-born model and actor, born in 1955, who played the shapeshifting prisoner Martia on the penal asteroid Rura Penthe in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
Iman is a Somali-born fashion model, actor and businesswoman, born in 1955, who was among the most prominent models of the 1970s and 1980s and later founded a cosmetics company.
In the 1991 film Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, directed by Nicholas Meyer, she plays Martia, a chameloid inmate of the Klingon prison mines on Rura Penthe. Martia befriends Kirk and McCoy, changes shape several times to help them escape across the ice, and is revealed to have been promised a pardon for leading them to their deaths. Her final transformation into a copy of Kirk has him fighting himself.
Her other screen appearances include Out of Africa and No Way Out.