Eunice Huthart
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| Gladiator name: | Blaze |
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| Height: | 1.7 m |
| Weight: | 64 kg |
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Eunice Huthart (born 2 November 1966) is best known for winning Gladiators and then being invited to return to the show as a Gladiator herself, "Blaze". She remains the only UK contender to ever become a Gladiator.
She later went on to present late night TV shows, and also became a stunt double for such stars as Famke Janssen
Famke Janssen
Famke Beumer Janssen is a Dutch actress and former fashion model. She is known for playing the villainous Bond girl Xenia Onatopp in GoldenEye and Jean Grey/Phoenix in the X-Men film series .- Early life and education :...
, Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie is an American actress. She has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards, and was named Hollywood's highest-paid actress by Forbes in 2009 and 2011. Jolie is noted for promoting humanitarian causes as a Goodwill Ambassador for the...
, Milla Jovovich
Milla Jovovich
Milla Jovovich December 17, 1975)is an American model, actress, musician, and fashion designer. Over her career, she has appeared in a number of science fiction and action-themed films, for which music channel VH1 has referred to her as the "reigning queen of kick-butt".Milla Jovovich began...
, and Uma Thurman
Uma Thurman
Uma Karuna Thurman is an American actress and model. She has performed in leading roles in a variety of films, ranging from romantic comedies and dramas to science fiction and action movies. Among her best-known roles are those in the Quentin Tarantino films Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill...
. Eunice currently lives in Liverpool, and her husband's family reside in South Shields
South Shields
South Shields is a coastal town in Tyne and Wear, England, located at the mouth of the River Tyne to Tyne Dock, and about downstream from Newcastle upon Tyne...
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Gladiators
Eunice Huthart made her first appearance on Gladiators in 1994, and went on to become the female series champion that year. In the Grand Final, she and Kerryn Sampey had an exciting Eliminator where Eunice fell down the Travelator twice, and Kerryn was able to pass her, but she fell down it too. Eunice was able to reach to top of the Travelator and swing to victory.Following her triumph in the domestic series, Eunice advanced forward to the international series. While running the Gauntlet in the international series final, Eunice got into a spot of bother with American Gladiator, Ice, who was the first Gladiator she had to get past. As Eunice ran towards her, Ice raised her Ramrod and struck Eunice in the face. Eunice got to the end in just over 20 seconds which earned her five points. However, Eunice lost her cool and went back after Ice which earned her a telling off from referee, John Anderson. Eunice went on the win the international series.
After doing International Gladiators, Eunice was invited back to the show to become a Gladiator for the 1995 Sheffield Live Shows, and was given the name "Blaze". Eunice's time as a Gladiator was brief, however, as she wanted to represent her country in the Ashes series in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
where she lost to her opponent from the domestic series final, Kerryn Sampey in the final. However, Eunice returned to win the 1995 Battle of the Champions, beating Australia's Bernie Withers in an exciting Eliminator which was almost a repeat of the domestic series final against Kerryn Sampey; Eunice fell down the Travelator the first time she ran up it, allowing Bernie to pass her, but she slipped down it as well, and Eunice was able to reach the top and earn the victory. Afterwards, Eunice decided to retire from competing in Gladiators, realising she was at the top of her game, and the time was right for her to bow out.
Post-Gladiators
Following International GladiatorsInternational Gladiators 1
International Gladiators 1 was the first full scale international competition using the Gladiators format. Champions and other contenders from Gladiators series in the United States , United Kingdom , and Finland competed against an international team of Gladiators...
, Eunice worked on the James Bond film GoldenEye
GoldenEye
GoldenEye is the seventeenth spy film in the James Bond series, and the first to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film was directed by Martin Campbell and is the first film in the series not to take story elements from the works of novelist Ian Fleming...
, where she acted as a stunt double for Famke Janssen
Famke Janssen
Famke Beumer Janssen is a Dutch actress and former fashion model. She is known for playing the villainous Bond girl Xenia Onatopp in GoldenEye and Jean Grey/Phoenix in the X-Men film series .- Early life and education :...
. She has since carved out a successful career doing stunts in such films as Salt, The Fifth Element
The Fifth Element
The Fifth Element is a 1997 French science fiction film directed, co-written, and based on a story by Luc Besson, starring Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, and Milla Jovovich...
, Titanic
Titanic (1997 film)
Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance and disaster film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. A fictionalized account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, it stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson, Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater and Billy Zane as Rose's fiancé, Cal...
, The Avengers, The Wolfman and the Tomb Raider
Tomb Raider
Tomb Raider is an action-adventure video game developed by Core Design and published by Eidos Interactive. It was originally released in 1996 for the Sega Saturn, with MS-DOS and PlayStation versions following shortly thereafter...
series. She frequently doubles for Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie is an American actress. She has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards, and was named Hollywood's highest-paid actress by Forbes in 2009 and 2011. Jolie is noted for promoting humanitarian causes as a Goodwill Ambassador for the...
, most recently in Salt. She has also been a stunt co-ordinator for the film V for Vendetta
V for Vendetta (film)
V for Vendetta is a 2005 dystopian thriller film directed by James McTeigue and produced by Joel Silver and the Wachowski brothers, who also wrote the screenplay. It is an adaptation of the V for Vendetta comic book by Alan Moore and David Lloyd...
and more recently for the new film Alice in Wonderland. She is credited as Stunt Coordinator on episodes of BBC's Paradox
Paradox (TV series)
Paradox is a 2009 British science fiction police drama, starring Tamzin Outhwaite as Detective Inspector Rebecca Flint. Written by Lizzie Mickery and produced by Clerkenwell Films for the BBC, it was filmed and set in Manchester, England....
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