Mary Sean Lujan (née Young, born November 20, 1959)[1] is an American actress. She is known for starring in science-fiction and comedy films throughout the 1980s and 1990s, although she has performed in many genres.
Young was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the daughter of Donald Young Jr., a television producer and journalist, and Lee Guthrie (Mary Lee Kane), a screenwriter, public-relations executive, and journalist.[2][3]
During most of the 1990s, Young resided in Sedona, Arizona, and her career cooled.[6] She reprised her role as Rachael in the Blade Runner video game released in 1997. Young has appeared in independent films, including roles in Poor White Trash (2000), Mockingbird Don't Sing (2001), and Sugar & Spice (also 2001). She spent four months in Russia filming the miniseries Yesenin (2005), in which she portrayed dancer Isadora Duncan.
In 2008, Young competed in the television program Gone Country 2, which included a competition in a celebrity demolition derby at the Henry County Fairgrounds in Paris, Tennessee. Young went on to win the celebrity derby heat and then went on to compete against 21 professional demolition derby drivers. Young finished in fourth place. In 2010, she was cast on the first season of the ABC series Skating with the Stars as a celebrity contestant, who skated with professional skater Denis Petukhov,[12][13] but she was the first celebrity to be eliminated.
Young in 2009
Young appeared on The Young and the Restless in June 2010 as Canadian barmaid Meggie McClain, alongside good friend Eric Braeden.[14][15] She returned to the show on July 14 in a recurring role, which lasted through February 2011.[16]
In October 2011, Young appeared on Late Show with David Letterman.[17] During the interview, she described how she was now looking for movie work after raising her two sons, and produced a short video clip promoting her job search, which Letterman played. She was subsequently cast in a film about Nikola Tesla, titled Fragments From Olympus: The Vision of Nikola Tesla (still in development as of August, 2023).
In October 2013, Young played the role of Dr. Lucien in Star Trek: Renegades, a fan project to create a pilot for a new Star Trek series (released in August 2015) where several former Star Trek actors appeared, including Tim Russ (who also directed the pilot) and Walter Koenig.[18] In June 2013, Young performed in a benefit skating event at the Ice Theater of New York,[19] competing in a Celebrity Skating competition against YouTube personality Michael Buckley, and US Olympic Fencing silver medalist Tim Morehouse.[19]
Young reprised her 1982 role of Rachael for Blade Runner 2049 (2017), portraying both the original (using archival footage from the first film) and a brand new cloned version of the character. This was achieved through the use of another actress as a body double. Sean Young was also credited in the new film as acting coach to Loren Peta, the actress portraying her character.[20]
Personal life
In 1990, Young married Robert Lujan, an actor and composer, with whom she has two sons.[21] The couple divorced in 2002, but remarried in 2011.[6]
In October 2017, Young joined the growing number of women to have alleged that producer Harvey Weinstein sexually harassed, sexually intimidated, or sexually assaulted them.[25]
In 1989, actor James Woods sued Young for allegedly harassing him and his fiancée. Young denied the allegations, and claimed Woods filed the lawsuit out of spite after she declined his romantic advances. The suit was settled out of court in 1989,[6] and Young was awarded $227,000 (equivalent to $590,000 today[26]) to cover her legal costs.[27]
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