Mehgan Heaney-Grier was born on Mehgan Renee Heaney; August 26,1977 and is an American champion freediver, fashion model, actress, conservationist, and TV personality.
14 Facts About Mehgan Heaney-Grier
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Mehgan Heaney-Grier's parents divorced when she was six years old.
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In 1996 at the age of 18 Mehgan Heaney-Grier established the first constant weight free-diving record in the United States with a dive to 155 feet on a single breath of air.
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In 1998 Mehgan Heaney-Grier captained the first United States Freediving Team to compete in the World Cup Freediving Championships held in Sardinia, Italy.
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In 2000, Mehgan Heaney-Grier was inducted as part of the inaugural roster into the Women Divers Hall of Fame.
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Mehgan Heaney-Grier has been a public relations ambassador for Omega Watches.
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Together with Mehgan Heaney-Grier, they formed a company named Extreme Encounters, and the footage they produced led to the Animal Planet series titled Extreme Contact.
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In 1999 Mehgan Heaney-Grier had a guest-starring role as a free-diver on an episode of Baywatch, and a starring role on a UPN movie of the week, Avalon:Beyond the Abyss, produced by Viacom Productions.
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Mehgan Heaney-Grier has been a featured guest on the Late Show with David Letterman, London's TFI Friday, Primetime Live with Anderson Cooper and Ripley's Believe it or Not.
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Mehgan Heaney-Grier hosted Saturn's Gravity Files, covering the Gravity Games in 2004, and the Mad Fin Shark Series for ESPN in 2008.
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In 2015 Mehgan Heaney-Grier co-starred as a member of a 5-person exploration team on the reality show Treasure Quest: Snake Island, which documents the search for the legendary Treasure of the Trinity on Snake Island, Brazil.
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In 2003, Mehgan Heaney-Grier was sought by the director of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Gore Verbinski, to perform an underwater stunt for Keira Knightley.
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Mehgan Heaney-Grier has performed underwater stunts, including scuba diving, free diving and working with sharks, as a stunt double for Jessica Alba and Ashley Scott in Into the Blue, and for actress Olivia Wilde in Turistas.
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Mehgan Heaney-Grier was featured in the books A Family of Women by Carolyn Jones.