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
Bulletproof (1996),
Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997)
and Blade (1998).
After few films, she made her first professional debut in
Bill & Teds verrückte Reise durch die Zeit (1989)
and made appearances in such films as
Stop! Oder meine Mami schießt! (1992)
and SF film Nemesis (1992).
Her memorable roles were in
Fist of Justice (1995), in which all martial
arts movie goers knows that she had a match against body builder lady
Corinna Everson. Next is
Vergessene Welt: Jurassic Park (1997),
Mortal Kombat 2 - Annihilation (1997),
where she portrayed Sheeva and
John Carpenter's horror
John Carpenters Vampire (1998) as one of the vampire
masters. As for her TV appearances, she was in
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)
and
Spacecenter Babylon 5 - Waffenbrüder (1999),
but she became famous for her roles in
Crusade (1999) and
BeastMaster - Herr der Wildnis (1999) TV series. She
played a supporting role besides
Bruce Willis in
Hostage - Entführt (2005). She recently completed
working on "Bring me the Head of Lance Henriksen" with
Michael Worth.
