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Kirsten Lindholm (born Kirsten Lindholm Andreassen; 1 September 1943) is a former model and a film actress known for her roles in Hammer horror movies, in which she first appeared as Kirsten Betts. She is now a yoga instructor and performer currently living in New Zealand and is now known as Elandra Kirsten Meredith and by the Sikh religious name Vikram Kaur Khalsa ().

She was born in Odense, Denmark,Kirsten Lindholm at the Internet Movie Database. and was raised in New Zealand, where she won prizes for ballroom dancing. While majoring in languages at Auckland University, she acted in several plays.Elandra Kirsten Meredith at Yoga Technology.(Dead Link)

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, as Kirsten Betts and then Kirsten Lindholm, she was an actress and model. She appeared in a London play called Pyjama Tops (1969),John Parker, Who's Who in the Theatre: A Biographical Record of the Contemporary Stage Volume 15, London: Pitman, 1972, p. 179. in the movie Zeta One (1969),Zeta One (1969) at British Film Institute Film & TV Database. and then in four Hammer horror movies: The Vampire Lovers (1970),Denis Meikle and Christopher T. Koetting, A History of Horrors: The Rise and Fall of the House of Hammer, Filmmakers Series 51, Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow, 1996, , p. 253.Bobb Cotter, Ingrid Pitt, Queen of Horror: The Complete Career, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2010, , p. 128. in which her character is beheaded before the opening titles and during filming for which she appeared as one of a "[v]ampire quintet" on the cover of ABC Film Review,Cotter, p. 135. Crescendo (1970),Meikle and Koetting, p. 252. Twins of Evil (1971),Meikle and Koetting, p. 257. where her role has been cited as an example of psychological violence,John Trevelyan, What the Censor Saw, London: Joseph, 1973, , p. 128. and Lust for a Vampire (1971).Meikle and Koetting, p. 254.Cotter, p. 139.

At a yoga class in England, she met Vic Briggs, who had converted to Sikhism and taken the name Vikram Singh; they fell in love and married after moving to California, and she took the Sikh religious name Vikram Kaur Khalsa.Pritam Andreassen, "Musically Speaking: Music in the family," The Ebbtide, Shoreline Community College, November 14, 2003.Kirsten Lindholm at Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen.ANTION (VIKRAM Singh) aka Vic Briggs at unp.me. They ran a Sikh ashram in San Diego. After living in Hawaii, where she worked as a healing practitioner and founded Ho'omana Ke Laka Healing workshops, she and her husband moved in 2008 to the Hibiscus Coast, New Zealand, where they both taught yoga.Maryke Penman, Singing to a new tune North Shore Times, April 26, 2012. She also sang backup for her husband on his One in the Goddess album. Briggs died in 2021.

Filmography Television Doctor in the House (5 episodes, 1970) as Ingrid UFO (1 episode "Timelash", 1971) Birds on the Wing (1 episode, 1971) as Ingrid The Persuaders! (1 episode "Angie, Angie", 1971) as Marissa Nave The Golden Shot (4 episodes, 1971) as Herself, Maid of the Month

Film Zeta One (1969) as Angvisa Girl Julius Caesar (1970) as slavegirl Crescendo (1970) as Catherine The Vampire Lovers (1970) as 1st Vampire Lust for a Vampire (1971) as Peasant Girl Twins of Evil (1971) as Young Girl at Stake

See also Amritdhari

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External links

Elandra Kirsten Meredith résumé at StarNow.com Elandra Health Healing