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).
Kirsten Lindholm | |
|---|---|
| Born | Kirsten Lindholm Andreassen 1 September 1943 |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1969–1971 |
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]
Filmography edit
Television edit
- Doctor in the House (5 episodes, 1970) as Ingrid
- UFO (1 episode "Timelash", 1971)
- Birds on the Wing (1 episode, 1971) as Ingrid
- The Persuaders! (1 episode "Angie, Angie", 1971) as Marissa Nave
- The Golden Shot (4 episodes, 1971) as Herself, Maid of the Month
Film edit
- Zeta One (1969) as Angvisa Girl
- Julius Caesar (1970) as slavegirl
- Crescendo (1970) as Catherine
- The Vampire Lovers (1970) as 1st Vampire
- Lust for a Vampire (1971) as Peasant Girl
- Twins of Evil (1971) as Young Girl at Stake
See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b c Kirsten Lindholm at the Internet Movie Database.
- ^ a b c Elandra Kirsten Meredith Archived 2003-12-10 at the Wayback Machine at Yoga Technology.(Dead Link)
- ^ John Parker, Who's Who in the Theatre: A Biographical Record of the Contemporary Stage Volume 15, London: Pitman, 1972, p. 179.
- ^ Zeta One (1969) at British Film Institute Film & TV Database.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Bobb Cotter, Ingrid Pitt, Queen of Horror: The Complete Career, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2010, ISBN 978-0-7864-5888-2, p. 128.
- ^ Cotter, p. 135.
- ^ Meikle and Koetting, p. 252.
- ^ Meikle and Koetting, p. 257.
- ^ John Trevelyan, What the Censor Saw, London: Joseph, 1973, ISBN 978-0-7181-1123-6, p. 128.
- ^ Meikle and Koetting, p. 254.
- ^ Cotter, p. 139.
- ^ a b c Pritam Andreassen, "Musically Speaking: Music in the family," The Ebbtide, Shoreline Community College, November 14, 2003.
- ^ Kirsten Lindholm at Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen.
- ^ ANTION (VIKRAM Singh) aka Vic Briggs at unp.me.
- ^ Maryke Penman, Singing to a new tune North Shore Times, April 26, 2012.
External links edit
- Kirsten Lindholm at IMDb
- Elandra Kirsten Meredith résumé at StarNow.com
- Elandra Health Healing