Marjean Holden

Actress, stunt woman, and martial artist Marjean Holden was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and raised in Vail, Colorado. 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 À l'épreuve des balles (1996), Speed 2 : Cap sur le danger (1997) and Blade (1998).

After few films, she made her first professional debut in L'Excellente Aventure de Bill & Ted (1989) and made appearances in such films as Arrête, ou ma mère va tirer! (1992) and SF film Nemesis (1992).

Her memorable roles were in Ballistic (1995), in which all martial arts movie goers knows that she had a match against body builder lady Corinna Everson. Next is Le Monde perdu : Jurassic Park (1997), Mortal Kombat : Destruction finale (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: Deep Space Nine (1993) and Babylon 5: L'appel aux armes (1999), but she became famous for her roles in 2267, ultime croisade (1999) and BeastMaster, le dernier des survivants (1999) TV series. She played a supporting role besides Bruce Willis in Otage (2005). She recently completed working on "Bring me the Head of Lance Henriksen" with Michael Worth.