Femi Taylor
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Occupation | Film actress |
Femi Taylor is a British dancer and actress. She is best known for playing Jabba the Hutt's Twi'lek slave dancer Oola in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. She reprised the same part 14 years later, filming new scenes for the Special Edition. Because of her role in Return of the Jedi, she appears at science fiction and Star Wars conventions all over the world.
Her adoptive brother Benedict Taylor played fighter pilot Bravo 2 in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.
Femi Taylor was Tantomile in the 1981 original London cast of the popular musical Cats. She was also in the movie version of Cats as Exotica, a role that only apears in the filmed version. This character was created specially for her.
[edit] Filmography
- Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983)
- A Kink in the Picasso (1990)
- Flirting (1991)
- Cats (1998) (TV)
[edit] External links
- Femi Taylor at the Internet Movie Database
- TheForce.Net - Interview with Femi Taylor