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Aimee Mullins
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Aimee Mullins (born 1976 in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is an American athlete, actress, and fashion model best known for her extraordinary collegiate-level athletic accomplishments, despite a disability that resulted in the amputation of both of her legs.
Mullins was born with fibular hemimelia (missing fibula bones) and had both of her legs amputated below the knee when she was just a year old. She is a graduate of Parkland High School in Allentown and Georgetown University in Washington, D.C..
While attending Georgetown University she competed against able-bodied athletes in NCAA Division I track and field events and set Paralympic records in 1996 in Atlanta in the 100-meter dash and the long jump. Her personal bests are: 15.77 seconds for the 100-meter dash, 34.60 seconds for the 200 meter, and 3.5 meters for the long-jump.
Also while at Georgetown, Mullins won a place on the Foreign Affairs internship program, working at The Pentagon. She also makes appearances as a motivational speaker.
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In 1999, she modelled for British fashion designer Alexander McQueen in his London show.
In 2002, she appeared in Matthew Barney's Cremaster 3 (the final film of The Cremaster Cycle series) as a cheetah woman (the Entered Novitiate and Oonagh MacCumhail). In 2006, she appeared in World Trade Center, playing the role of a reporter.
- 2002 - Cremaster 3 (Cremaster Cycle), film directed by Matthew Barney.
- 2003 - Poirot
- 2006 - Marvelous
- 2006 - World Trade Center as a reporter
- 2006 - Quid Pro Quo (post production)
Mullins 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 & Mora (eds.) (2006) ISBN 0-262-19530-5
- Aimee Mullins at the Internet Movie Database
- Aimee Mullins at allamericanspeakers.com