Jeannie Epper, Iconic Stuntwoman Who Doubled for Lynda Carter on “Wonder Woman”, Dead at 83

Jeannie Epper boasted more than 160 stunt credits throughout her 70 year career

Jeannie Epper, one of the world’s best-known stuntwomen, has died.

Epper’s family confirmed the death to The Hollywood Reporter, sharing that she died of natural causes at her home in Simi Valley, California on May 5. She was 83.

Epper is perhaps most known for her time working with Lynda Carter on Wonder Woman throughout the 1970s. She served as Carter’s main stunt double on the ABC and CBS series, which aired from 1975-1979, per THR.

Among her other notable work includes 1984's Romancing the Stone, which saw her star in one of her most iconic film scenes. She stood in for Kathleen Turner during a rainforest mudslide scene in the film, and she swung across a 350-foot gorge to do it, she told Entertainment Weekly in 2007.

Speaking about her line of work — at the time, she was 66 — she told the outlet, "Some guys don't like to put me in a really dangerous position anymore. It hurts your pride to acknowledge that you're getting older. I've had to go through that the past few years. But I'm not emotionally ready to stop yet. My neighbors think I'm nuts."

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Epper came from a family of stunt performers. Her father, John Epper, starred as stand-ins for Ronald Reagan and Errol Flynn and boasted over 200 film credits. Like Jeannie, her siblings all went into the stunt business, and all three of her children — Eurlyne, Richard and Kurtis — followed in her footsteps, too.

She did her first professional stunt when she was 9, per EW, riding a horse bareback down a cliff, and was once trapped in a burning cabin for a 1960s Western TV show called Lancer, resulting in all her hair being "burned off."

In 2007, she became the first woman to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Taurus World Stunt Awards, the field's most prestigious award, and her final stunt credit came in 2021 at the age of 80.

Along with her 161 stunt credits, she was a member of the group of stunt performers who Steven Spielberg nicknamed the "Flying Wallendas of Film," and in the 2004 documentary Double Dare, which told her story as a stunt woman, along with others in the industry, Spielberg recalled working with her in the '70s on 1941.

"In the bar fight in 1941, there were Eppers flying all over the place," he said in the documentary, per THR. "There were Eppers coming in from screen left, Eppers coming in from screen right, they were everywhere."

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She is survived by her husband, Tim, her kids Eurlyne and Richard, five grandkids and seven great-greatkids.

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