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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Fashion model
In 1999, she modelled for British fashion designer Alexander McQueen in his London show.
Actress
In 2002, she appeared in Matthew Barney's Cremaster 3 as a cheetah woman (the Entered Novitiate and Oonagh MacCumhail). In 2006, she appeared in World Trade Center, playing the role of a reporter. She also appeared, in 2003, in the made-for-television version of Agatha Christie's Five Little Pigs, as the woman who asks Hercule Poirot to clear her dead mother of murder.
Films and television
- 2002 - Cremaster 3 (Cremaster Cycle), film directed by Matthew Barney.
- 2003 - Five Little Pigs
- 2006 - Marvelous
- 2006 - World Trade Center as a reporter
- 2008 - Quid Pro Quo (post production)
Books
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 & Morra (eds.) (2006) ISBN 0-262-19530-5
External links
- Aimee Mullins at the Internet Movie Database
- Aimee Mullins at allamericanspeakers.com
