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She shaved her head for the role.

PERSIS KHAMBATTA, the former Miss India and international model, created cinematic history by appearing in 1979 as the first bald film heroine, in Star Trek: the Motion Picture, the hugely successful Hollywood science fiction film.

In 1997, she wrote and published a , Pride of India, which featured several former Miss India winners.

The book was dedicated to , and part of the royalties went to the.

But, tiring of life in the West, she returned to Bombay in the early 1990s and, defying feminists who opposed beauty contests on the grounds that they merely flauted women as sex objects she laboriously produced Pride of India 1996 , an anthology of former Miss Indias and other stunningly attractive Indian women who had participated in international beauty contests.

She embraced the change, however, believing that ultimately a movie might help her career more, according to.

Khambatta became a model for companies such as Revlon.

Four years later she starred opposite Sylvester Stallone in Night Hawks and became the first Indian to present an award at the Oscar ceremony in Los Angeles.

Personal life and death [ ] Khambatta married Hollywood actor Cliff Taylor only weeks after meeting him in June 1981.

Earlier, at the Miss World contest in Miami in the mid- 1960s, where local newspapers referred to her as the "prettiest Indian girl to be seen in the US in many years", Khambatta was offered a role in a Bond film.