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Mary Sean Young (born November 20, 1959) [1] is an American actress. She is particularly known for working in sci-fi films, although she has performed roles in a variety of genres. Young's early roles include the independent romance Jane Austen in Manhattan (1980) and the comedy feature Stripes (1981), the latter being a commercial success.
Sean Young. Actress: Blade Runner. Mary Sean Young was born on November 20, 1959 in Louisville, Kentucky. She is the daughter of Lee Guthrie (née Mary Lee Kane), an Emmy-nominated producer, screenwriter, public relations executive, and journalist, and Donald Young, Jr., an Emmy award winning television news producer and journalist.
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Sean Young. Actress: Blade Runner. Mary Sean Young was born on November 20, 1959 in Louisville, Kentucky. She is the daughter of Lee Guthrie (née Mary Lee Kane), an Emmy-nominated producer, screenwriter, public relations executive, and journalist, and Donald Young, Jr., an Emmy award winning television news producer and journalist.
- November 20, 1959
- She was born Mary Young. Sean Young was born on the 20th of November 1959 in Louisville, Kentucky. Her birth name was Mary Young, and she was the daughter of Donald Young and Lee Guthrie, both of whom worked in the media.
- She originally studied dance. Early on, acting was not the line of work which Sean Young intended to pursue. From her childhood, Young was a keen dancer, and this was the path she originally hoped to follow, studying ballet as a young girl then taking this study further at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, Michigan.
- She made her film debut aged 20. Thanks to her mother’s contacts in New York, Young was quickly able to find an agent as an actress, and she landed her first film role not long after that: a small supporting part in the 1980 drama Jane Austen in Manhattan.
- She was cast in Stripes based mainly on her looks. Now a jobbing young actress, Sean Young soon landed her next role in what proved to be her first real hit: the 1981 comedy Stripes, which stars Bill Murray and Harold Ramis as two slackers who decide to join the Army.
Nov 7, 2023 · Photo by: Maria Baranova. Sean Young has had a storied Hollywood career — but now she's set her sights on the stage. The actress, 63, best known for a string of successes in the '80s and...
Nov 2, 2023 · Young, in her New York stage debut, plays Susan Cabot, a B-movie actress whose titles include “The Wasp Woman.” Cabot was beaten to death in 1986 by her 22-year-old son. Young has had her...
Mary Sean Young (born November 20, 1959) is an American actress. Her breakthrough role was that of Rachael in the sci-fi Blade Runner (1982), which emerged as a significant work in popular culture; she reprised the role for Blade Runner's acclaimed sequel Blade Runner 2049 (2017).
