Bess Motta

Bess Motta (born February 10, 1958) is an American actress, singer, choreographer, and exercise demonstrator who appeared in the Canadian produced television series 20 Minute Workout,[1] which aired for two seasons in 1983 and 1984.

Bess Motta
Born (1958-02-10) February 10, 1958
Woodland Hills, California

Biography

Motta was born in Woodland Hills, California. She has been credited with putting TV aerobics on the map, and has been called the "Aerobics queen of the 1980s", having become a fitness advocate after returning from England 30 pounds overweight.[2]

She had a small role in The Terminator, playing Linda Hamilton's roommate, Ginger, in 1984. She played Rita, a friendly and bubbly waitress in a mansion's kitchen, on the syndicated show New Monkees in 1987.[3] She also appeared in the first few seasons of The Home Show.

Motta gave an interview to The Terminator Fans website in August 2010[4] in which she confirms that she has attended the occasional ComicCon event (Burbank and Chicago in 2010).

On December 3, 2014 Motta appeared on Ken Reid's TV Guidance Counselor Podcast.[5]

gollark: Oh cool, a good keycard door lock program.
gollark: Obviously all this needs power, so there's a 16kRF/t TBU oxide reactor (machine-designed) on the left powering it. Thorium is supplied by the lens of the miner setup and it somehow runs net-positive.
gollark: The roof has an AE2 system glued to it which does the main crafting.
gollark: Gold is supplied by a lens of the miner setup with some processing hooked to it. That dumps into the 28 or so storage caches.
gollark: Since I don't want to mine for those constantly, the machinery near the back grows redstone (and slime, string, cacti) and also produces several million wooden planks a day as byproduct. I don't know *what* to do with those.

References
  1. Terrace, Vincent (1986). Encyclopedia of Television Series, Pilots and Specials: 1974–1984. Volume II. New York: New York Zoetrope. p. 427. ISBN 978-0-918432-61-2. OCLC 15052958. Retrieved March 1, 2009.
  2. Meyers, Jeff (December 21, 1986). "The Bess Show in Town: Former Aerobics Star Dances to the Big Screen by Exercising Options". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
  3. "Bess Motta Filmography". The New York Times. Retrieved May 9, 2013.
  4. "Interview with Bess Motta – Ginger Ventura from 'The Terminator (1984)'". TheTerminatorFans.com. August 16, 2010. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
  5. Reid, Ken (December 3, 2014). "The :20 Minute Workout". TV Guidance Counselor Podcast. Episode 52. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
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