Jeannie Epper

Jeannie Epper was an American stuntwoman and actress who trained with her stunt performer father from age nine and numbered among the earliest professional child stunt doubles. At first she found little work because men usually doubled for actresses, but in the 1970s she gained regular stunt double assignments for Lynda Carter on Wonder Woman, Lindsay Wagner on The Bionic Woman, and Kate Jackson on Charlie's Angels. Her stunt work extended to more than 100 film and television productions, including Romancing the Stone, which brought her a 1985 Annual Stuntman Award for Most Spectacular Stunt, and later Catch Me If You Can, Minority Report, and Kill Bill: Vol. 2. She also took acting roles in films such as The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972) and Quarantine (2008). Epper helped establish the Stuntwomen's Association of Motion Pictures in 1968 and in 2007 became the first woman to receive a Taurus World Stunt Awards lifetime achievement prize.