Sean Young was born in 1959, under the name of Mary Sean Young, in Louisville, Kentucky, United States.
She’s daughter of Lee Guthrie, a writer and public relationsist, and the journalist Donald young.
Attended school Clevelands Heights High School and then moved to Michigan, where he attended Interlochen Arts Academy, where he graduated from.
He has studied at the American Ballet School, in New York and, before becoming an actress, she was a model and dancer.
His film career began in 1980, in the film “Jane Austen in Manhattan“, Followed by a small role in”The Nutty Squad” with Bill murray, in 1981.
She played the female figure of the classic futurist “Blade Runner“ (1982) together with Harrison ford. He also had a brief role in “Wall street”(1987), as the wife of Michael Douglas.
One of her most important characters was as the mistress of a Washington politician, in “No exit”(1987), with Kevin Costner Y Gene Hackman.
In 1988, she was seen in “Sensual impulse” with James woods, who would later sue her for harassing both him and his fiancée. The lawsuit was settled out of court in 1989.
In 1989, she was cast in the role of Vicki Vale, on “Batman” from Tim Burton, next to Michael Keaton. However it was replaced by Kim basinger after breaking an arm when falling from a horse.
In an attempt to win the role of catwoman, she created her own costume and faced off against Michael Keaton and the producer of the film, but finally the role went to Michelle pfeiffer.
In 1990, she was fired from “Dick tracy”, For not looking maternal enough for the role.
Other of his films in this period were “Fatal distraction“(1993), and”Ace ventura, a different detective “ (1994) with Jim Carrey Y Courteney cox, “Mirage” (nineteen ninety five), “Dr Jeckill and Mrs Hyde” (nineteen ninety five), “Dangerous game”(1997) with Kim cattrall, Y “The invader”(1997) with Daniel baldwin, among other.
Since 2000, she has appeared in a variety of independent films and also as a guest actress on television. His roles include “Poor White trash“(2000),”Naive and dangerous”(2001) with Mena suvari, and series like “Third Watch”(2002), and “Boston Public”(2003).
In 2005, he starred in “Ghosts never sleep” with Faye dunaway. That same year, I spent a few months in Russia filming the miniseries “Esenin”, In which I play the role of Isadora Duncan.
In recent years he has had small participations in series such as “CSI”(2006), “ER“ (2007) and “One tree hill”(2007).
At the end of 2007 he worked on two films: “The man who came back“, with Billy zane and that was released in 2008, and “Visible Darkness”.
Soon it will be seen in “Haunted echoes”(2008) with M.Emmet Walsh and in “Parasomnia”(2008).
In his personal life, he married Robert Lujan in 1990, with whom he had two children. They both divorced in 2002.
In January 2008, Young underwent a rehabilitation program for alcohol abuse, after the scandal that occurred at the previous awards ceremony Directors Guild of America.