Athena Massey

Biography

Athena Massey has a presence on screen and in person that is both confident and elegant. It seems fitting she should bear the name of a warrior goddess.

She says her parents both claim to have given her the name: "My mother was fascinated with mythology and wanted her daughter to be wiser than she was, but she also didn't realize how much similarity I have to the actual goddess. In college I took a basic mythology course, and I'd always heard myths here and there growing up about Athena being a weaver and a warrior, but when I studied I found out she was known as the light-eyed goddess (I have blue eyes), and she also played a flute, and I played a flute in elementary for 3 or 4 years.

"And I'm definitely the warrior part - I grew up a little tomboy. I even got suspended my senior year of high school for beating up a wrestler; not all girls can say that! Along with all my sports: being interested in street hockey, boxing, kickboxing - those aren't your typical girl sports. So I've always been quite the little fighter."
Most famous for being on the TV series Black Scorpion as Hurricane which aired on the SciFi network. Athena Massey continues to show her range and versatility as an actress through her many roles in both film and television. Proving that she is not just a 'pretty face,' Massey has played roles ranging from a secret agent in the film "Termination Man" to a clairvoyant alien in the highly-acclaimed television series "Star Trek: Voyager."

Massey has enjoyed the physical training she's done for films: "The way it got started was landing the role of Lana in VIRTUAL COMBAT; prior to that I'd had no martial arts experience. I met with the fight coordinator, and I caught on really quickly because I am athletic, especially in the more masculine sports. The training was a great workout for me, and as a woman I think it's great self-defense.

The 5'5" brown-haired, blue-eyed actress had her first film role in the Steven Seagal action film "Out for Justice" in 1991. She has appeared in multiple TV shows including "Red Shoe Diaries", "The Larry Sanders Show", "Doogie Howser, M.D.", "Young and Restless", "Ocean Park" and "Rock the Vote". Athena has also appeared in the interactive CD-ROM "Quarterback Attack". She has an interest in multiple sports including bicycling, boxing, skateboarding and water skiing. She is also fluent in German and French.
Athena and husband Tony welcomed Gianna Vita Azzi into the world on June 21, 2003. Mother and daughter are doing wonderfully. Gianna weighed in at eight pounds, four ounces (and a statuesque 20 inches .) She instantly had her own fan club

Janurary 2004
ATHENA IS MAKING A BIG SPLASH AT BOOKSTORES EVERYWHERE - LITERALLY.
When famed Parisian photographer Veronique Vial (Women before 10 A.M., Men before 10 A.M.) was casting Hollywood celebrities for her new book, Hollywood Splash, Athena was an obvious must. Ms. Vail likes to photograph her famous subjects "being spontaneous" and Athena obliged by taking the plunge into her swimming pool wearing a wedding dress. (A choice inspired by Athena about to leap into the deep end of matrimony only a few mo