Faith Minton

Faith Minton (born March 14, 1957) is an American television and film actress and stuntwoman.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Minton has a stunt and wrestling background and is probably best known for her role as "Hurricane" Rosy Spelman in the 1979 action comedy film Temporale Rosy in 1980 opposite Gerard Depardieu, and as "Big Mama", a wrestler in the 1981 film ...All The Marbles, with Peter Falk, Laurene Landon and Vicki Frederick. In 1983, she appeared as the villain's henchwoman in the Italian action comedy Go for It, with David Huddleston and in a supporting role in Smokey and the Bandit Part 3, alongsides Paul Williams, Colleen Camp and Jerry Reed, and opposite Jackie Gleason and Mike Henry. She later guest starred in series such as Fantasy Island, Night Court, Simon & Simon, Knight Rider, V.I.P. and Murder, She Wrote (with William Windom).

Selected filmography

1978 Fantasy Island
1979 The Wanderers
1979 Temporale Rosy
1980 Cheech & Chong's Next Movie
1981 Simon & Simon
1981 ...All The Marbles
1981 Hill Street Blues
1983 Go for It
1983 Smokey and the Bandit Part 3
1984 Night Court
1984 Mike Hammer
1984 Murder, She Wrote
1985 Misfits of Science
1987 Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987 Who’s That Girl?
1987 Hooperman
1988 Roseanne
1989 Santa Barbara, as Ilsa: she tried to frame Mack for stealing jewels from people at the fitness center
1989 Alien Nation
1991 Switch
1992 Stay Tuned
1992 Swordsman II, as the American dub version of Invisible Asia
1995 Sudden Death as Carla, one of the terrorists who took Civic Arena during a Stanley Cup Finals game.
1995 Unhappily Ever After
1998 V.I.P.
2001 Bubble Boy
2002 She Spies
2005 Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
2006 Sons & Daughters
2007 Days of Our Lives

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