Cory Everson
| Corinna Everson | |
|---|---|
| — Bodybuilder — | |
| Personal info | |
| Nickname | Cory |
| Born |
January 4, 1958 Racine, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) |
| Weight | (In Season): 155-160 lb. (Off-Season):160-165 lb. |
| Professional career | |
| Pro-debut | IFBB North American, 1982 |
| Best win | Undefeated in professional competition Ms. Olympia six consecutive times, 1984-1989 |
| Predecessor | Carla Dunlap |
| Successor | Lenda Murray |
| Active | Retired 1989 |
Corinna "Cory" Everson (née Kneuer) (born January 4, 1958) is an American female bodybuilding champion and actress. Cory won the Ms. Olympia contest six years in a row from 1984 to 1989.
Corinna Kneuer was born in Racine, Wisconsin and attended high school in Deerfield, Illinois. Cory attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she was a multi-sport standout (gymnastics, track & field and badminton).
While attending the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Cory met Jeff Everson, a competitive bodybuilder who worked there as a strength coach. They married in 1982. While they were married, the Eversons built a successful mail-order clothing business called Sampson and Delilah.
Everson, who adopted a Russian child, is active with Nightlight Christian Adoptions, an adoption agency that brings orphans from Russia and Belarus to the US to stay with families looking to adopt a child.
Corinna Everson began to train seriously as a bodybuilder after her graduation, and made rapid progress. In the early years, she and Jeff trained at Ernie's Gym on Sherman Avenue in Madison.
Everson is unique in having never lost a Ms. Olympia contest.
In January 1999, Everson was inducted into the IFBB Hall of Fame, as part of the inaugural group. She was inducted into the Muscle Beach Venice Body Building Hall of Fame on September 5, 2005.
At the 2007 Arnold Classic she became the first woman to be presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2008, Everson was inducted into the National Fitness Hall of Fame.
After retiring from competition, Everson began acting. Her first major movie appearance was in Double Impact (1991) alongside Jean-Claude Van Damme. In it she plays Kara, a bone-crushing assassin working for the main villain whose attempts at lesbian seduction are rebuffed by Alonna Shaw and which ultimately leads to her downfall. This film involves a number of brutal fight scenes. Later in the movie her character is killed by the hero towards the end of the film. She took a minor role in Natural Born Killers (1994). Then in Ballistic (1995), (known in some countries as Fist of Justice) she reprised the evil musclewoman role with bravado. However she lost the final epic fight to Marjean Holden playing an undercover cop.
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