Sean Young
Sean Young is an award-winning star of stage, screen, and television. Young stars in over 40 feature films. Many of these motion pictures are embedded in motion picture history, including box office hits like BLADE RUNNER, No Way Out, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Cousins, and Dune.
Young worked with several of the most accomplished directors in the entertainment industry, including Robert Altman, Harold Becker, Roger Donaldson, James Ivory, David Lynch, Gary Marshall, Ismail Merchant, Carl Reiner, Ivan Reitman, Ridley Scott, Tom Shadyac, Joel Schumacher, Oliver Stone, and Gus Van Sant.
Young’s acting debut is in James Ivory’s Jane Austen in Manhattan as Ariadne, and she portrays Louise in Stripes under the direction of Ivan Reitman, with Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates, John Candy, John Larroquette, and Judge Reinhold.
Young’s body of work establishes her versatility and exhibits her chameleon capability in leading roles: from an other-worldly replicant in BLADE RUNNER opposite Harrison Ford, to the lusty mistress in No Way Out with Kevin Costner and Gene Hackman, to Michael Douglas’ trophy wife in Wall Street, to the gracious wronged-woman in Cousins with Ted Danson, to the ass-kicking, military helicopter pilot trading barbs with Nicolas Cage and Tommy Lee Jones in Fire Birds, to playing twin sisters in A Kiss Before Dying with Matt Dillon.
Young’s comedic skills are highlighted in Fatal Instinct, under the direction of Carl Reiner with Armand Assante; in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective playing Lt. Lois Einhorn; as well as in The Proprietor, in which she stars with Jeanne Moreau. Young plays a woman seeking a husband in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Under the Biltmore Clock for American Playhouse, and the teenage movie star in Tender is the Night with Mary Steenburgen and Peter Strauss.
No stranger to television, Young stars in highly rated and significantly acclaimed Movies of the Week: the award-winning legal drama, Witness to the Execution, Blue Ice with Michael Caine, and the mini-series Blood and Orchids with Kris Kristofferson. She also stars on CBS in Everything to Gain, one of its highest-rated Movies of the Week to this day.
Young has an intensive dance background and graduated from Interlochen Arts Academy, which served her during her critically acclaimed performance in Stardust with Toni Tenille and Hinton Battle, a musical review of songwriter Mitchell Parish. Young performed with Gregory Hines at a special music benefit for the American Tap Dance Orchestra, where she sits on the Board at their New York City headquarters.
Young stars in two movies for the Lifetime Channel, Home for The Holidays and The Protégé, and has a starring role in the My Network series The Art of Betrayal, a 65-episode story arc of hour-long episodes.
Back to the big screen Young appears in The Drop, The Garden, Living the Dream, Before I Say Goodbye, The Man Who Came Back, Haunted Echoes, Sea Change, Parasomnia, and Signal Lost, to name a few.
Young made her off-Broadway stage debut in Ode to the Wasp Woman, generating rave reviews. Young rises as the victor. In her own words: “I always felt like I had the right to be me.”
Born in Louisville, Kentucky on November 20, her birth name is Mary Young, the daughter of Lee Guthrie, a screenwriter, public relations executive, and journalist, and Donald Young, a television news producer and journalist. Young attended Cleveland Heights High School in Cleveland Heights, Ohio and then transferred to and graduated from Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, Michigan. In 1990, Young married Robert Lujan, with whom she has two children, Rio Kelly and Quinn Lee. The couple divorced in 2002 and later remarried. Today, they reside in Atlanta, Georgia.