Kirsten Lindholm

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Kirsten Lindholm
Born
Kirsten Lindholm Andreassen

(1943-09-01) 1 September 1943 (age 80)
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).

She was born in

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),

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]

Filmography

Television

Film

See also

  • Amritdhari

References

  1. ^
    Internet Movie Database
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  2. ^ a b c 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. ISBN 978-0-8108-2959-6, p. 253
    .
  6. 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. ISBN 978-0-7181-1123-6, p. 128
    .
  11. ^ Meikle and Koetting, p. 254.
  12. ^ Cotter, p. 139.
  13. ^ a b c 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.

External links

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