Jenny Epper during the 2007 Taurus World Stunt Awards – Backstage and press room at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles, California, United States. , Photo Credit: E. Charbonneau/WireImage

Jenny Epper, a ground-breaking performer who performed stunts for many of the most important women in film and television action of the 1970s and ’80s, including TV star Linda Carter. wonder woman, has died. She was 83 years old.

Family spokeswoman Amanda Micheli said Epper died of natural causes on Sunday at his home in Simi Valley, California. The Associated Press,

Considered one of the greatest in his art – Entertainment Weekly In 2007 she was called “the greatest stuntwoman of all time” – Epper came from a family dynasty of stunt performers that included both her parents, John and Frances Epper. Her 70-year career as a stuntwoman and stunt coordinator began when she was 9 years old.

“That’s really all I know besides being a mother or a grandmother,” Epper said in a 2004 documentary. double DareDirected by Micheli.

His siblings, Tony, Margo, Gary, Andy, and Stephanie, all also worked in stunt work. Steven Spielberg called him “the Flying Wallens of film”. hollywood reporterWho first reported Aper’s death.

His children Urlin, Richard and Kurtis and his grandson Christopher followed him into the stunt business.

She initially found it difficult to get much stunt work as a woman, but the late 1970s saw a huge increase in opportunities as women got more action-oriented roles.

Her breakthrough role – and the one with which she will always be most associated – was on wonder woman, Epper reprized Carter in the series, which ran for three seasons from 1976 to 1979 on ABC and CBS, smashing through windows, kicking doors and deflecting bullets.

In the same era, he doubled Lindsay Wagner. bionic woman and kate jackson on the original Charlie’s Angels,

In the 1980s, Epper staged a famous mud-slide for Kathleen Turner. romancing the stone And fought for Linda Evans by squabbling with Joan Collins on TV Dynasty,

Epper also appeared in more highbrow fare, stunt driving for Shirley MacLaine in the 1984 Best Picture Oscar winner when she threw Jack Nicholson out of a Corvette. terms of Endearment,

And she was a frequent presence in films directed or produced by Spielberg, including 1977 Close Encounters of the Third Kind1982 decade poltergeist and 2002 minority Report,

Spielberg said, “He certainly deserves to be one of the great stunt coordinators.” double Dare,

Recently his work came out The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Kill Bill: Vol. 2 And The Amazing Spider-Man 2. In 2007, she became the first woman to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Taurus World Stunt Awards.

She was the last survivor of her stunt-artist siblings. His son Curtis also died before him.

Her survivors include husband Tim, children Yurleen and Richard, five grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.