Aimee Mullins (born 1976 in Allentown, Pennsylvania Allentown is a city located in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is Pennsylvania's third most populous city, after Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 106,632, . It is the county seat of Lehigh County) is an American athlete A sportsperson or athlete is a person who participates regularly in a sport. (For the different meaning of "athlete" in British and American English, see Athlete of the Year.), actress An actor or actress is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity. The ancient Greek word for an "actor," ὑποκριτής (hypokrites), means literally "one who interprets"; in this sense, an actor is one who interprets a dramatic character, and fashion model A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed for the purpose of displaying and promoting fashion clothing or other products and for advertising or promotional purposes or who poses for works of art best known for her collegiate-level athletic accomplishments, despite a medical condition that resulted in the amputation of both of her legs.
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Background
Mullins was born with fibular hemimelia (missing fibula The fibula or calf bone is a bone located on the lateral side of the tibia, with which it is connected above and below. It is the smaller of the two bones, and, in proportion to its length, the most slender of all the long bones. Its upper extremity is small, placed toward the back of the head of the tibia, below the level of the knee-joint, and bones) and, as a result, had both of her legs amputated below the knee when she was a year old. She is a graduate of Parkland High School in Allentown and Georgetown University Georgetown University is a Jesuit private university located in Georgetown, Washington, DC. Father John Carroll founded the school in 1789, though its roots extend back to 1634. While the school struggled financially in its early years, Georgetown expanded into a branched university after the American Civil War under the leadership of university in Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790. The City of Washington was originally a separate municipality within the Territory of Columbia until an act of Congress in 1871 effectively merged the City and the
While attending Georgetown University, she competed against able-bodied athletes in NCAA The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a semi- voluntary association of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. Its headquarters are located in Indianapolis, Indiana, and was under the leadership of president Division I track and field Track and field athletics is a collection of sports events that involve running, sprinting, throwing, jumping and walking. Organised athletics are traced back to the Ancient Olympic Games from 776 BC, and most modern events are conducted by the member clubs of the International Association of Athletics Federations. The athletics meeting forms the events. She competed in the Paralympics in 1996 in Atlanta The 1996 Paralympic Games in Atlanta, USA were the first Paralympics to get mass media sponsorship. They were held from 16 August to 25 August, in which she ran the 100-meter dash in 17.01 seconds and jumped 3.14 meters in the long-jump.[1]
Also while at Georgetown, Mullins won a place on the Foreign Affairs internship An intern is someone who works in a temporary position with an emphasis on on-the-job training rather than merely employment , making it similar to an apprenticeship. Interns are usually college or university students, but they can also be high school students or post graduate adults seeking skills for a new career. Student internships provide program, working at The Pentagon The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, located in Arlington, Virginia. As a symbol of the U.S. military, "the Pentagon" is often used metonymically to refer to the Department of Defense rather than the building itself. She also makes appearances as a motivational speaker.
Fashion model
In 1999, she modelled for British fashion designer Alexander McQueen Alexander McQueen CBE is an English fashion designer in his London London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom. It is the UK's largest and most populous metropolitan area and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures.[citation needed] show, on a pair of hand-carved wooden prosthetic legs made from solid ash Fraxinus , common name Ash, is a genus of usually medium to large trees, mostly deciduous though a few subtropical species are evergreen. Genus Fraxinus are the true ashes, and are in Oleaceae, the olive family, along with olives and lilacs. The leaves are opposite (rarely in whorls of three), and mostly pinnately-compound, simple in a few species, with integral boots.[2] She is able to change her height between 5ft 8 in and 6ft 1 in by changing her legs.[2] She has been named one of the fifty most beautiful people in the world by People People is a weekly American magazine of celebrity and human-interest stories, published by Time Inc. As of 2006, it has a circulation of 3.75 million and revenue expected to top $1.5 billion. It was named "Magazine of the Year" by Advertising Age in October 2005, for excellence in editorial, circulation and advertising. People ranked #6.
Actress
In 2002, she appeared in Matthew Barney Matthew Barney is an American artist who works in sculpture, photography, drawing and film. His early works were sculptural installations combined with performance and video. Between 1994 and 2002 he created the Cremaster Cycle, a series of five feature-length films described by Jonathan Jones in The Guardian as "one of the most imaginative's Cremaster 3 as a cheetah woman (the Entered Novitiate and Oonagh MacCumhail). In 2006, she appeared in World Trade Center World Trade Center is a true story 2006 disaster film, directed by Oliver Stone and based on the September 11, 2001 attacks on the same-titled towers of New York City. The film stars Nicolas Cage, Michael Peña, Maria Bello, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Michael Shannon. The movie was shot from 19 October 2005 - 10 February 2006, playing the role of a reporter. She also appeared, in 2003, in the made-for-television A television movie (also known as a television film, TV film, TV movie, TV-movie, feature-length drama, made-for-TV movie, made-for-television, original movie, movie of the week , single drama, telemovie, or telefilm) is a feature film that is produced for and originally distributed by a television network version of Agatha Christie Dame Agatha Christie DBE , was an English crime writer of novels, short stories and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but is best remembered for her 80 detective novels and her successful West End theatre plays. Her works, particularly those featuring detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple, have given her the's Five Little Pigs, as the woman who asks Hercule Poirot Hercule Poirot (pronounced /ɜrˈkjuːl ˌpwɑrˈoʊ/; French pronunciation: [ɛʀkyl pwaʀo]) is a fictional Belgian detective created by Agatha Christie. Along with Miss Marple, Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-lived characters, appearing in 33 novels and 51 short stories that were published between 1920 and 1975 and set in the to clear her dead mother of murder.
Films and television
The artificially-legged Aimee Mullins watches the also artificially-legged Hugh Herr climb the wall at the MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological research. MIT is one of two private land-grant universities[b] and is also a sea-grant and space- Media Lab's h2.0 symposium on 9 May, 2007- 2002 - Cremaster 3 (Cremaster Cycle), film directed by Matthew Barney Matthew Barney is an American artist who works in sculpture, photography, drawing and film. His early works were sculptural installations combined with performance and video. Between 1994 and 2002 he created the Cremaster Cycle, a series of five feature-length films described by Jonathan Jones in The Guardian as "one of the most imaginative.
- 2003 - Five Little Pigs
- 2006 - Marvelous
- 2006 - World Trade Center World Trade Center is a true story 2006 disaster film, directed by Oliver Stone and based on the September 11, 2001 attacks on the same-titled towers of New York City. The film stars Nicolas Cage, Michael Peña, Maria Bello, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Michael Shannon. The movie was shot from 19 October 2005 - 10 February 2006 as a reporter
- 2008 - Quid Pro Quo Quid pro quo indicates a more-or-less equal exchange or substitution of goods or services. English speakers often use the term to mean "a favor for a favor" and the phrases with almost identical meaning include: "what for what," "give and take," "tit for tat", "this for that", and "you scratch
Books
Mullins has been featured in the following books:
- Athlete (2002) ISBN 0-06-019553-3
- Laws of the Bandit Queens (2002) ISBN 0-609-80807-9
- The Prosthetic Impulse - Smith & Morra (eds.) (2006) ISBN 0-262-19530-5
References
- ^ Paralympic.org official records site results
- ^ a b Aimee Mullins: How my legs give me super-powers TED conference - Feb 2009
External links
| Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Aimee Mullins |
- Aimee Mullins's Official Site at AimeeMullins.com
- Aimee Mullins at the Internet Movie Database The Internet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, actors, television shows, production crew personnel, video games, and most recently, fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. IMDb launched on October 17, 1990, and in 1998 was acquired by Amazon.com
- Aimee Mullins at AllAmericanSpeakers.com
- TED Talks: Aimee Mullins: Running on high-tech legs, Filmed 1998
- TED Talks: Aimee Mullins: How my legs give me super-powers, Filmed 2009
- TED Talks: Aimee Mullins: The opportunity of adversity, Filmed Oct 2009
- Role Models interview from CaptainU
- Official paralympic.org records page
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:40:00 GM
If you haven't yet met . Aimee Mullins. , you must watch her presentations at TED. She's an inspirational speaker with many life lessons to share. Here's her latest: . Aimee Mullins. : The opportunity of adversity | Video on TED.com.
