Jeannie Epper is an American stuntwoman

Stunt performer

A stuntman, or daredevil is someone who performs dangerous stunts, often as a career.These stunts are sometimes rigged so that they look dangerous while still having safety mechanisms, but often they are as dangerous as they appear to be...

 and actress. She has performed stunts in over 100 feature films and television series and is perhaps best known as Lynda Carter

Lynda Carter

Lynda Jean Carter is an American actress and singer, best known for being Miss World USA and as the star of the 1970s television series The New Original Wonder Woman and The New Adventures of Wonder Woman ....

's double on the Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman (TV series)

Wonder Woman is an American television series based on the DC Comics comic book superhero of the same name. Starring Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman/Diana Prince and Lyle Waggoner as Steve Trevor, the show originally aired from 1975 to 1979....

series. She was featured in Amanda Micheli's 2004 documentary Double Dare

Double Dare (documentary)

Double Dare is a 2004 documentary film about stuntwomen, specifically Jeannie Epper and Zoë Bell, directed by Amanda Micheli. The documentary follows Epper and Bell over several years, Epper from 1997 and Bell from the end of Xena: Warrior Princess in 2001, to 2003.-Overview:The film begins with...

, along with New Zealand stuntwoman and actress Zoë Bell

Zoë Bell

Zoë E. Bell is a stuntwoman and actress from New Zealand. Some of her most notable stunt work includes doubling for Lucy Lawless on Xena: Warrior Princess and for Uma Thurman in Kill Bill. As an actress, she has appeared both on television and in feature films and also starred in the web series...

. Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly

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noted that many consider her "the greatest stuntwoman who's ever lived."

Family

Her family traces its lineage back to "a colonel in Napoleon's army" and his great-grandson, a multi-lingual Swiss who eventually lived in California where he began the family tradition in stunt work.

Part of a major stunt family in Hollywood, she is the daughter of John Epper, and the sister of Gary Epper

Gary Epper

Gary Epper was an American stunt performer and coordinator and occasional actor. Part of a major stunt family dynasty in Hollywood, he was the son of John Epper, the brother of fellow Star Trek stuntmen Tony Epper and Andy Epper and stuntwoman Jeannie Epper...

, Tony Epper and Andy Epper.

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