Camille Saviola, whose many stage and TV roles included the Bajoran religious leader Kai Opaka in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the mother of the hapless Turtle in Entourage and, on Broadway, characters in Nine and Chicago, has died at age 71.Her death was announced on the Star Trek website WarpFactorTrek.com.
Additional details were not immediately available.Longtime friend and actor Harvey Fierstein tweeted, “She was a friend for 40 years who could always be counted on for a laugh, a shoulder or a kick I.
The ass. The Italian Godmother of Soul! Farewell.”Actor Wilson Cruz, who said he performed with Saviola at many AIDS benefits over the years, tweeted, “What a presence this woman was!
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