Yana Nirvana
Biography
Yana Nirvana is an American actress, writer and comedian. She is an alumna of the famous Los Angeles comedy troupe The Groundlings and was active in film and television throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Beyond standard acting roles, she was known for her background in dance, performance art and fitness culture.
Known For & Full Filmography15 Titles
Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes • as Hooker in Cell
An eccentric fun-loving judge presides over an urban night court and all the silliness going on there.
Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes • as Woman in Bed
Garry Shandling stars as himself, a neurotic, sardonic stand-up comedian who just happens to be aware he is a sitcom character. Garry spends just as much time interacting with the studio audience as he does the regular cast members, performing monologues and show-closing summations of the episode's events. However, everyone knows they're on TV, not just Garry; and the audience (itself a character) is often involved in the storyline.
Movie - 1990, 2h 15m • as CHP Officer
For the past four years, San Francisco cop Jack Cates has been after an unidentified drug kingpin who calls himself the Ice Man. Jack finds a picture that proves that the Ice Man has put a price on the head of Reggie Hammond, who is scheduled to be released from prison on the next day.
Movie - 1985, 2h 15m • as Louise
Monty Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit $300 million if he can successfully spend $30 million in 30 days without anything to show for it, and without telling anyone what he's up to... A task that's a lot harder than it sounds!
Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes • as Sgt. Haggerty
The Last Precinct is an American comedy series that aired on NBC from January to May 1986 on Friday Night at 9:00pm. The series stars Adam West as Capt. Rick Wright, leading a group of misfit police academy rejects. The pilot for the Stephen J. Cannell series debuted after Super Bowl XX in 1986, but the show was canceled within two months of its April premiere. This was the only sitcom from Stephen J. Cannell Productions.
Movie - 1986, 2h 15m • as Butchette
A young man from a small town goes to Hollywood to make his fortune. He gets hired as a bouncer at a disco club, but soon finds himself caught up in drugs, gangsters and eventually has to flee when his boss and another bouncer are murdered by drug dealers, who are soon after him.
Movie - 1977, 2h 15m • as Drucella
Cinderella, with the help of her "fairy" godmother, is granted heightened sexual prowess to win over Prince Charming. After a blindfolded orgy at the royal castle, the nerdy Prince must sleep with every willing woman in his kingdom until he finds that one, mysterious lover who so "stood out" on the night of the sex Ball.
Movie - 1984, 2h 15m • as Astrid Anders
The world of female bodybuilding provides the backdrop for this tale of an aspiring young actress who initially becomes interested in the sport as a means of self-defense following a physical attack by two men, but then finds that while concentrating on building up her body her relationship with her parents, with whom she is living, and her new-found boyfriend, a young cop, is breaking down. Several noted bodybuilders and iron-pumpers, male and female, put in appearances to give this production an added authenticity.
Movie - 1987, 2h 15m • as Olga
Bryan and Reggie are best friends who are in the music business in Missouri. When Reggie enters Brian for a chance to go to L.A., Bryan wins the contest and wants to bring Reggie with him. However, Bryan must bring a girl. In an effort to make sure Bryan gets his shot, Reggie decides to pose as a girl. When the duo arrive in L.A., both fall in love with two women and they must stop the promoter of the contest when he steals Bryan's song for his star, Simon Sledge.
Movie - 1985, 2h 15m • as Woman in Bar
In the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, everybody is somebody else. May, a single mother who delivers strip-O-grams, dreams of being an actress. She rents one of her rooms out to a pizza-man cum songwriter named Jonathan. Meanwhile, in the next apartment, August, an Austrian bodybuilder, fancies himself the next Arnold Schwarzenegger. As the pressures of everyday life in LA mount, Jonathan and August vie for May's love.
Movie - 1978, 2h 15m • as The TV Director's AD
Australian stuntman Grant Page goes to Los Angeles to work on a television series. He uses his spare time to lend his expertise to rock band Sorcery. Page helps the band develop pyrotechnic magic tricks for their shows, and also recounts to his own exploits as a stuntman and daredevil as well as various stunts by other greats.
Movie - 1988, 2h 15m • as Yana Nirvana
Fictional character, Heidi Abromowitz, is the butt of everyone's jokes.
Movie - 1986, 2h 15m • as Sgt. Hagerty
In this spoof of TV cop shows, which served as the pilot to the subsequent short-lived series, a bunch of bumbling misfits and rejects from the police academy, all assembled under a straitlaced but dimwitted captain, fumble their way to success cracking a drug ring run by a blind mobster.
Movie - 1984, 2h 15m • as Moon Goddess
A hard-boiled love triangle between a private eye and two bloodsucking dames. The film was actually shot in 1984 and was considered lost and unfinished for decades before being rediscovered and completed by Greg Travis, the film's star, co-writer and director. It was then briefly screened in theaters and ushered out onto VOD.
Movie - 1984, 2h 15m • as Gidget
Gidget’s parents sell her brain to science in order to buy a Winnebago. Years later, Gidget gets her revenge when her brain is transplanted into the corpulent body of a surfer who is investigating a plot by aliens to transform humans into loaves of french bread.