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Kitty Linn O'Neil ( March 24, 1946 – November 2, 2018) was an American stuntwoman and auto-racer, [1] [2] [3] [4] often called "the fastest woman in the world" for her various speed records. [5] [6] [7] [8] Her women's absolute land speed record stood until 2019.
Nov 6, 2018 · Kitty O’Neil leaping from a hotel balcony in a stunt for the “Wonder Woman” television series. After deciding that diving “wasn’t scary enough for me,” she found her métier astride motorcycles...
Kitty O'Neil. Stunts: The Blues Brothers. Her mother, Patsy Linn Compton, was a Cherokee Native American and her father, John R. O'Neil, an oil wildcatter, was Irish. They were married on October 20, 1940 in Wharton, Texas, USA. Kitty was born on March 24, 1946 in Nueces, Texas, USA.
Dec 27, 2018 · Kitty O’Neil. She overcame tragedy by daring anything and outrunning everything. B. 1946. BY MICHAEL PATERNITI. The very first stunt performed by Kitty O’Neil — or at least the first one she...
Nov 5, 2018 · Kitty O’Neil, a deaf Hollywood stuntwoman, daredevil and protege of Hal Needham who doubled for Lynda Carter on Wonder Woman and set a land-speed record as the fastest woman driver ever, has...
Nov 7, 2018 · Kitty O'Neil, a stuntwoman who was Lynda Carter's stunt double on 1970s TV series Wonder Woman, has died in South Dakota at the age of 72.
Stunts Unlimited, an organization of Hollywood's top stunt performers, accepted Kitty O'Neil into membership in 1976. She was the first woman to be so honored. In December 1976 Kitty shattered the world land speed record for women.
