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Iona Morris (born 23 May 1957; age 66) is an actress who appeared as an Only in the Star Trek: The Original Series first season episode "Miri", along with her brother Phil Morris. She later played Umali in the Star Trek: Voyager seventh season episode "Workforce". She and Phil are the children of Mission: Impossible star Greg Morris.

Morris attended the same high school as actor Corbin Bernsen. Morris and Bernsen would subsequently co-starred together in an episode of Citizen Baines, starring James Cromwell and Matt McCoy.

After her first Trek appearance, Iona Morris went on to make guest appearances on such television shows as the 1980s update of The Twilight Zone (in a segment with Terry O'Quinn), Night Court (co-starring with John Larroquette and Bumper Robinson), Hill Street Blues (starring Megan Gallagher and James B. Sikking, in an episode with Marc Alaimo and Eric Menyuk), The Cosby Show, Murder, She Wrote (with Leon Russom), Moesha, and The District (starring Roger Aaron Brown). She was also seen in an episode of Homeboys in Outer Space, which featured Original Series star James Doohan in a recurring role. In addition, Morris has become well-versed as a voice actress, voicing regular roles on Robotech (as Claudia Grant) and the Problem Child animated series. Perhaps most notably, she was the original voice of Ororo Munroe, a.k.a. Storm, on the 1990s animated X-Men TV series; John Colicos voiced the role of Apocalypse on this series. Morris also voiced Storm and the character of Martha Robinson on the Spider-Man animated series. In 2006, she would return to Robotech to voice Dr. Jean Grant in the animated file Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles which also stars Chase Masterson.

One of her few film credits is Rain Without Thunder (1992, featuring Voyager star Ethan Phillips and Carolyn McCormick).

More recently, she has done voice overs for the video games Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, Grand Theft Auto V, and Fallout 4.

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