Sandahl Bergman (born November 14, 1951) is an American dancer, stuntwoman, and actress who is known for her performances in B-movies in the 1980s and 1990s.
Bergman was born in Kansas City, Missouri. She is 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) tall. Bergman's movie career began in 1978 with a small role in the TV film How to Pick Up Girls. She followed this in 1979 with a noted appearance as a dancer in the Bob Fosse film All That Jazz. In the 1980 movie Xanadu, she appears as a muse during the song "I'm Alive" by ELO. She is the fourth muse, although she is listed as Muse #1 in the movie credits.
Bergman's participation in Xanadu also led indirectly to her eviction from her apartment in New York and her subsequent relocation to California. She had been subletting her apartment in New York in defiance of a clause in her agreement with her landlord, and during her four months in California for filming, he became aware of the situation. Bergman says that she never returned to New York, instead having friends pack and ship her clothes to her.
Her best-known role was playing Valeria opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1982 film Conan the Barbarian. She won the Golden Globe Award for New Star Of The Year - Actress, the last ever awarded, for her role in the film. She played a different character, Queen Gedren, in another Robert E. Howard film, Red Sonja, in 1985. After that, she appeared in many undistinguished films, such as 1987's Hell Comes to Frogtown. Her most recent work was in 2003, when at the age of 52 she appeared as a dancer in the film version of The Singing Detective.
She also appears briefly as a lunar base officer in the movie Airplane II: The Sequel.
In total she has appeared in 40 different films and television programs, and has also been active on the stage, appearing in productions of A Chorus Line, among others.
References
^ Maiocco, Diana. "Big Woman on Mulberry Street", Moonlighting Strangers, February/March 2003 (Vol. 1, Issue 5), p. 24.
External links
Sandahl Bergman at the Internet Movie Database
Sandahl Bergman at Allmovie
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