Biography for
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Date of Birth

1965, Vail, Colorado, USA

Height

6' (1.83 m)

Mini Biography

Actress, stunt woman, dancer and martial artist Marjean Holden was born in Vail, Colorado in 1965. She started acting from the age of 9, well being from the family of entertainers, she already knew her profession. As a youngster, she showed multiple skills in her school plays, and also in sports. Later she started martial arts training in boxing and Wun Hop Kuen Do, which she used in most of her action-fighting films. With her athletic abilities and martial arts, she entered in the world of motion pictures as an actress and stunt woman. Some of her stunt work was in Bulletproof (1996), Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997) and Blade (1998).

After few films, she made her first professional debut in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) and made appearances in such films as Stop! Or my Mom Will Shoot (1992) and SF film Nemesis (1993).

Her memorable roles were in Ballistic (1995), in which all martial arts movie goers knows that she had a match against body builder lady Corrina Everson, next is The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997), where she portrayed Sheeva and John Carpenter's horror Vampires (1998) as one of the vampire masters. As for her TV appearances, she was in "Star Trek" and "Babylon 5", but she became famous for her roles in "Crusade" (1999) and "Beastmaster" (2002) TV series. She played a supporting role besides Bruce Willis in Hostage (2005). She is working on "Bring me the Head of Lance Henriksen" with Michael Worth.

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Spouse

Paul	(? - present) 1 child

Trade Mark

Her height

Trivia

Marjean Holden was raised in Vail, Colorado, where she became interested in acting at the age of nine. After performing in nearly every school play or musical, she went on to study Television Producing and Directing, first at Northern Arizona University and finally at Arizona State University.

Trained in Wun Hop Kuen Do (Kung Fu style).

Studied Wun Hop Kuen Do under sifu Earl White.

She worked with many combat veterans and for her effort she received an award from Military order of the purple heart (1996).

One of her favorite films is Excalibur (1981).