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Jeannie Epper, Legendary ‘Wonder Woman’ and ‘Romancing the Stone’ Stuntwoman, Dies at 83
She also doubled for Linda Evans on ‘The Big Valley’ and ‘Dynasty,’ got caught in a fire on ‘Lancer’ and was smashed in the head by Pam Grier in ‘Foxy Brown.’
Jeannie Epper, the peerless, fearless stunt performer who doubled for Lynda Carter on Wonder Woman and swung on a vine across a 350-foot gorge and propelled down an epic mudslide as Kathleen Turner in Romancing the Stone, has died. Her big-screen body of work also included Our Man Flint(1966), Coffy(1973), Earthquake(1974), The Towering Inferno(1974), Smokey and the Bandit II(1980), The Cannonball Run(1981), Blade Runner(1982), Extremities(1986), Outrageous Fortune(1987), Road House(1989), Total Recall(1990), The Fugitive(1993), Die Hard With a Vengeance(1995), Con Air(1997), Rush Hour 2(2001), The Italian Job(2003), Kill Bill: Vol 2(2004), The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift(2006) and The Amazing Spider-Man(2012). In Scott McGee’s 2022 book Danger on the Silver Screen, Epper is quoted as saying that stunt work “empowers me, it gives me a sense of great accomplishment and control … as a woman, when you pull off something that only men do, it raises respect for all women.
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