Salome Jens
Acting • Born 1935-05-08
Biography
Salome Jens (born May 8, 1935 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American actress. She is perhaps best-known for portraying the Female Changeling on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. She also appeared in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation as an "Ancient humanoid", a member of the race responsible for populating the galaxy with humanoid life forms. She had previously played Clark Kent's mother Martha Kent on the popular TV series Superboy. She also appeared in the 1966 film Seconds by John Frankenheimer, in a 1963 episode of The Outer Limits, "Corpus Earthling," and in 1981's Harry's War. She also appeared in the "I Spy" episode "A Room with a Rack" in 1967, as a globe-trotting pilot friend of Kelly Robinson and Alexander Scott. Jens graduated Bay View High School with a 96 average and was crowned Miss Bay View at the long running South Shore Water Frolics. Later in life she remarked that "the only time I can imagine contemplating suicide would be if I was told that I had to go back and live in Milwaukee forever." She has been married twice, first to film actor Ralph Meeker, and then to television personality Lee Leonard. Her performances in the theatre have been rare but well regarded. She nabbed the lion's share of attention in the small role of "The Thief" in the New York premiere production of Jean Genet's The Balcony. She won excellent notices playing Josie in A Moon for the Misbegotten at the downtown Circle-in-the-Square theatre in the late 1960's in New York, and she did a Cleopatra at Stratford. Jens' debut was in the title role of Terror from the Year 5000, which was later featured in the 8th Season of Mystery Science Theater 3000. She subsequently had major roles in Angel Baby and the television series Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. In 1971, she also appeared as a widow with two children in the 1971 Gunsmoke episode, "Captain Sligo," with Richard Basehart in the title role as an Irish cattle buyer who courts her. She has a very distinctive and sultry voice, and has also narrated a number of documentaries including The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century and the film "Clan of the Cave Bear" starring Darryl Hannah.
Filmography
82 credits
Coming Out Under Fire
Movie • 1994
Narrator (voice)
Seconds
Movie • 1966
Nora Marcus
The Fool Killer
Movie • 1965
Mrs. Dodd
The Deadly Dream
Movie • 1971
Mary
Terror from the Year 5000
Movie • 1958
Future Woman / Nurse
Barefoot in Athens
Movie • 1966
Theodote
Tomorrow's Child
Movie • 1982
Laura Pressburg
Cats & Dogs
Movie • 2001
Collie at HQ (voice)
Grace Kelly
Movie • 1983
Mady Christians
Showdown at Ulcer Gulch
Movie • 1956
Bryn Mawr
Sharon: Portrait of a Mistress
Movie • 1977
Terri
Rock Hudson: Dark and Handsome Stranger
Movie • 2010
Herself
Cloud Dancer
Movie • 1980
Jean Randolph
The Two Lives of Carol Letner
Movie • 1981
Dr. Miller
Peter and Paul and the Christian Revolution
Movie • 2003
Herself - Narrator
Uncommon Valor
Movie • 1983
Nurse Ann Botts
The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story
Movie • 1980
Ilyena
The Clan of the Cave Bear
Movie • 1986
Narrated by (voice)
Me, Natalie
Movie • 1969
Shirley Norton
Norm of the North
Movie • 2016
Councilwoman Klubeck (voice)
Cast the First Stone
Movie • 1989
Sister Angela
Savages
Movie • 1972
Emily Penning, a Woman in Disgrace
The Boy Who Talked to Badgers
Movie • 1975
Esther MacDonald
Playing with Fire
Movie • 1985
Dr. Becker
Angel Baby
Movie • 1961
Angel Baby
In the Glitter Palace
Movie • 1977
Judge Kendis Winslow
Such Good Friends
Movie • 1971
Blood Donor at Hospital (uncredited)
A Killer in the Family
Movie • 1983
Alice Johansen
The Lottery
Movie • 1996
Faith Lloyd
House of Evil
Movie • 1974
The Satan Murders
Movie • 1974
Ann Bristol
I'm Losing You
Movie • 1998
Diantha Krohn
Diary of the Dead
Movie • 1976
Vera
Just Between Friends
Movie • 1986
Helga
A Matter of Life and Death
Movie • 1981
Colleen Murphy
Harry's War
Movie • 1981
Wilda
Finding Hannah
Movie • 2023
Hannah 2
Henry James' The Jolly Corner
Movie • 1975
Alice Staverton
Parker Adderson, Philosopher
Movie • 1974
Alice
The Legacy: The Passion of the Christ
Movie • 2007
Narrator
Falcon Crest
TV • 1981
Claudia Chadway
Trapper John, M.D.
TV • 1979
Star Trek: The Next Generation
TV • 1987
Humanoid Progenitor
L.A. Law
TV • 1986
Beatrice Schuler
Tales from the Crypt
TV • 1989
Mrs. Pritchard
Quincy, M.E.
TV • 1976
Naked City
TV • 1958
Ellen Annis
MacGyver
TV • 1985
Sister Margaret
Kojak
TV • 1973
Olga Nurell
Medical Center
TV • 1969
Dr. Abby Whitten
Hart to Hart
TV • 1979
All's Fair
TV • 1976
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Joesphine Burney
Cagney & Lacey
TV • 1982
The Wonder Years
TV • 1988
Miss Stebbins
Melrose Place
TV • 1992
Joan Campbell
Superboy
TV • 1988
Martha Kent
The Colbys
TV • 1985
Mrs. McAllister
The Hogan Family
TV • 1986
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Theodote
Chicago Hope
TV • 1994
Board Member
McMillan & Wife
TV • 1971
Petrocelli
TV • 1974
Meeting of Minds
TV • 1977
Nothing Sacred
TV • 1997
The Rat Patrol
TV • 1966
Patricia Bauer
Stoney Burke
TV • 1962
The Defenders
TV • 1961
Fay Dumont
The Outer Limits
TV • 1963
Laurie Cameron
Gibbsville
TV • 1976
Kraft Mystery Theatre
TV • 1961
The Wild Thornberrys
TV • 1998
Humpback Whale (voice)
Peter & Paul and the Christian Revolution
TV • 2003
Narrator
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Katherine Snider
From Here to Eternity
TV • 1979
Gert Kipfer
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
TV • 1993
Female Shapeshifter
CBS Summer Playhouse
TV • 1987
Glenda Davis
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
TV • 1996
Narrator (voice)
Medical Center
TV • 1969
Heather Caddison
Avatar: The Last Airbender
TV • 2005
Additional Voices (voice)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
TV • 1976
Mae Olinski