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OverviewAI-generated
Sean Young, born Mary Sean Young on November 20, 1959, in Louisville, Kentucky, is an American female dancer, model, stage actor, and film actor. She began her professional work period in 1980. Her career includes acting roles, and she has received Golden Raspberry Awards for Worst Actress and Worst Supporting Actress.
Young is also an author who writes in English. Her published works include *Love and Cherish*, *Mcclendon Thanksgiving*, *Dangerous Destiny*, *Soul's Burden*, and *On the Shoulders of Giants*. She maintains an official website at maryseanyoung.com.
Synthesized by Vinony from 35 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 13
Top works
- Love and Cherish
- Mcclendon Thanksgiving
- Dangerous Destiny
- Soul's Burden
- On the Shoulders of Giants
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Sean Young, born Mary Sean Young on November 20, 1959, in Louisville, Kentucky, is an American actress recognized for her roles in 1980s sci-fi and thrillers. A former model and dancer trained at the School of American Ballet, she debuted in Jane Austen in Manhattan (1980) and broke through with Stripes (1981), followed by her iconic portrayal of replicant Rachael in Blade Runner (1982) opposite…
Known for
- Guillotine — Self - Narrator (voice)2025
- Crave — Brigitte2025
- The Dummy Detective — Harriet Hubbard2025
- The Activated Man — Agnes Gabriel2024
- Nick and Nicky — Gloria2024
- Ape X Mecha Ape: New World Order — Lemuria2024
- Heather — Caitlyn2024
- Icons Unearthed: Batman — Self2024
- MY-01 — Dr. Athena Bennett2023
- DC Down — President Powell2023
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Canada
- Active from
- 1945-11-12
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 137
- Total plays
- 602
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Sean+Young">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,538x
- ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge
· 2015 · cited 30,543x
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 24,222x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,894x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,620x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Mary Sean Young , ( 1959-11-20 ) November 20, 1959 (age 66) , Louisville, Kentucky , U.S.
- Occupation
- Actress
- Years active
- 1980–present
- Spouses
- Robert Lujan ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1990 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2002 ) ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2011 )
- Website
- maryseanyoung .com
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Mary Sean Lujan (née Young, born November 20, 1959) is an American actress. She is known for starring in science-fiction and comedy films throughout the 1980s and 1990s, although she has performed in many genres.
Young's first successful film was the comedy Stripes (1981). She rose to prominence for her roles in Blade Runner, Young Doctors in Love (both 1982), Dune (1984), No Way Out, Wall Street (both 1987), Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me (1992) and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994). Since the 2000s, she has predominantly appeared in independent projects, with the exception of The Young and the Restless (2010–2011) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sean Young” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.