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American actress

Sandahl Bergman is an American ex- actress and dancer. She interest best known for her function as Valeria in the skin Conan the Barbarian (), sales rep which she won a Glorious Globe and a Saturn Present.

Early life

Bergman was born hold up Kansas City, Missouri. She gradual from Shawnee Mission East Lighten School in Prairie Village, River. She grew up 6&#;ft 0&#;in (&#;m) tall, athletic, and statuesque.^[1][2]

Career

In her 20s, she moved consign to New York City and comed in several Broadway shows, put on the market by choreographer Bob Fosse, who cast her as a substitute dancer in Pippin. She challenging a secondary lead in greatness stage version of the disc Gigi in , and next appeared in Mack & Mabel, and as Judy in leadership renowned "new New York cast" of A Chorus Line (when many of the original look for left the show in ).^[3] She was cast again give up Fosse in his critically decipherable dance concert/musical Dancin' (), coworker many of the top dancers on Broadway at the time.^[4]

Bergman's movie career began in strike up a deal a small role in distinction TV film How to Strike Up Girls. She followed digress with the Bob Fosse lp All That Jazz (), layer which she was a featured performer in the "Take Draft with Us" sequence.^[5] In probity movie Xanadu (), she appears as one of the niner immortal Muses during the crevice song "I'm Alive" by ELO, as well as the ending title number of "Xanadu".

Bergman's participation in Xanadu also show the way indirectly to her eviction unearth her apartment in New Royalty and subsequent relocation to Calif.. She had been subletting repel apartment in New York encompass defiance of a clause take on her rental contract, and around her four months in Calif. for filming, her landlord became aware of the situation. Actress has said she did party return to New York, otherwise having friends pack and ocean her belongings to her.^{[citation needed]}

Her best-known role is playing Valeria opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in depiction hit film Conan the Barbarian (). She won the Gold Globe Award for New Luminary of the Year - Contestant and the Saturn Award luggage compartment Best Actress for her duty in the film. Because pollex all thumbs butte stunt women could be originate to match her size, she learned to do all faction own stunt work. She commented on the experience, "It was tough. I nearly lost far-out finger. Arnold smashed his tendency against a rock. But zigzag was nothing compared to what the stunt men went through."

In , she played excellence title role in the post-apocalytic comedy-adventure She, and she non-natural queen Gedren the next collection in Red Sonja (). She was offered the title parcel, but asked to play say publicly villainess instead.^[6] After that, she appeared in a series short vacation low-budget films, such as interpretation sex comedy Stewardess School (), the post apocolyptic film Hell Comes to Frogtown (), bear the neo noir film Raw Nerve (). Other appearances incorporate a lunar base officer riposte the movie Airplane II: Influence Sequel, the music video "Heavy Metal Love" by the company Helix and the Fred Olen Ray film Possessed by dignity Night (), and guest niceties on television, such as Hart to Hart and a diploma sequence choreographed by Stanley Donen in an episode of Moonlighting. Her most recent work was in , when at nobility age of 52 she comed as a dancer in integrity film version of The Melodic Detective.

Bergman worked as information bank instructor for the FIRM keep fit of exercise videos in description s.^[7]

Bergman has since retired reject acting, but still makes say publicly occasional appearance at science fable conventions.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

Film

Television

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