Kirsten Lindholm

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Kirsten Lindholm
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Kirsten Lindholm Andreassen

(1943-09-01) 1 September 1943 (age 80)
Odense, Denmark
Occupation Actress
Years active1969–1971

Kirsten Lindholm (born Kirsten Lindholm Andreassen; 1 September 1943) is a former model and a film actress known for her roles in Hammer horror movies, in which she first appeared as Kirsten Betts. She is now a yoga instructor and performer currently living in New Zealand and is now known as Elandra Kirsten Meredith and by the Sikh religious name Vikram Kaur Khalsa (Punjabi : ਵਿਕਰਮ ਕੌਰ ਖਾਲਸਾ).

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She was born in Odense, Denmark, [1] and was raised in New Zealand, where she won prizes for ballroom dancing. While majoring in languages at Auckland University, she acted in several plays. [2]

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, as Kirsten Betts and then Kirsten Lindholm, she was an actress and model. She appeared in a London play called Pyjama Tops (1969), [3] in the movie Zeta One (1969), [4] and then in four Hammer horror movies: The Vampire Lovers (1970), [5] [6] in which her character is beheaded before the opening titles and during filming for which she appeared as one of a "[v]ampire quintet" on the cover of ABC Film Review, [7] Crescendo (1970), [8] Twins of Evil (1971), [9] where her role has been cited as an example of psychological violence, [10] and Lust for a Vampire (1971). [1] [11] [12]

At a yoga class in England, she met Vic Briggs, who had converted to Sikhism and taken the name Vikram Singh; they fell in love and married after moving to California, and she took the Sikh religious name Vikram Kaur Khalsa. [13] [14] [15] They ran a Sikh ashram in San Diego. [13] After living in Hawaii, where she worked as a healing practitioner [13] and founded Ho'omana Ke Laka Healing workshops, [1] [2] she and her husband moved in 2008 to the Hibiscus Coast, New Zealand, where they both teach yoga. [16] She also sang backup for her husband on his One in the Goddess album. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Kirsten Lindholm at the Internet Movie Database.
  2. 1 2 3 Elandra Kirsten Meredith Archived 2003-12-10 at the Wayback Machine at Yoga Technology.(Dead Link)
  3. ↑ John Parker, Who's Who in the Theatre: A Biographical Record of the Contemporary Stage Volume 15, London: Pitman, 1972, p. 179.
  4. ↑ Zeta One (1969) at British Film Institute Film & TV Database.
  5. ↑ Denis Meikle and Christopher T. Koetting, A History of Horrors: The Rise and Fall of the House of Hammer, Filmmakers Series 51, Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow, 1996, ISBN   978-0-8108-2959-6, p. 253.
  6. ↑ Bobb Cotter, Ingrid Pitt, Queen of Horror: The Complete Career, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2010, ISBN   978-0-7864-5888-2, p. 128.
  7. ↑ Cotter, p. 135.
  8. ↑ Meikle and Koetting, p. 252.
  9. ↑ Meikle and Koetting, p. 257.
  10. ↑ John Trevelyan, What the Censor Saw, London: Joseph, 1973, ISBN   978-0-7181-1123-6, p. 128.
  11. ↑ Meikle and Koetting, p. 254.
  12. ↑ Cotter, p. 139.
  13. 1 2 3 Pritam Andreassen, "Musically Speaking: Music in the family," The Ebbtide, Shoreline Community College, November 14, 2003.
  14. ↑ Kirsten Lindholm at Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen.
  15. ↑ ANTION (VIKRAM Singh) aka Vic Briggs at unp.me.
  16. ↑ Maryke Penman, Singing to a new tune North Shore Times, April 26, 2012.
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