Born: 14-08-1973
Birthplace: Chicago (Illinois)
Country: USA
Occupation: Actress and Martial Artist
Height: 5' 2" (1,57 m)
American actress Katalin grew up in Chicago with her two brothers Alexander and Chris. She's an well known martial artist who took forensic science classes at the University of Illinois, where she gained a degree in anthropology.
She got interested in martial arts by her father Thomas Zamiar who was Golden Gloves champion. She was also inspired in martial arts by Kelly from 'Charlie's Angels' who was a karate expert and Bruce Lee who was her childhood hero.
She is an accomplished member of the martial arts community with more then 25 years experience in martial arts and longer then 18 years in boxing. She is longer then 11 years active in the fitness industry. She is trained in wushu, jiu jitsu, kung fu, taekwondo, karate, kickboxing and boxing since 1982. She has an black belt in kung fu, taekwondo, goju karate, shorin ryu karate and is an certified ACE, AAFA and ISMA trainer who uses the title ''Sifu''. She was training at the Cuba's Pan American Village in Havana in the time she was professional boxer.
She is national and international fitness/martial arts presenter who teaches lessons at various conferences from Taipei to Aruba. Her presenting career has taken her to over 100 cities in America and across the world.
She's since 2001 the owner of POW! Mixed Martial Arts and Chicago Krav Maga training centers in downtown Chicago. She is also spoke person of the MMA gear company Revgear Sports and is their education director. She creates an new program called ''Martial Athletic'', which is made for martial arts school owners.
Her skills, training methods and programs have been featured in over 20 news stories on mediums as Univision, WGN, 190 North, NBC News, ABC News, CLTV, CBS News.
She also appears in magazines as Allure, Black belt, Women's Sports And Fitness, Golf Digest, Combat Sports, Today's Chicago Woman, Chicago Magazine, Home Gym & Fitness, Self Magazine and many more. She has been featured in Shape Magazine as one of the country's best trainers.
She also writes for the professional fitness and martial arts industry. She has authored five industry educational manuals, over 100 published articles and starred in 17 videos/DVDs. She gives lectured on martial arts, boxing, biomechanics and fitness and traveled across the country with her exercise video series. She does often Ultimate Fighting Championship covershoots and interviews for Grappling magazine. She performs in more than a dozen of workout fitness/martial arts videos and wrote also conditioning materials and manuals. She makes the exercise videotapes together with former "Mortal Kombat" video game star Ho Sung Pak.
She is well known for her characterizations of the three female ninja characters Kitana, Mileena and Jade in the fight video game ''Mortal Kombat II'' (1993). She reunites herself with the rest of Mortal Kombat II cast, during the 20th anniversary event at the Galloping Ghost Arcade in 2014. She played the character of ninja woman Chae Lee, in the female fighting game ''Catfight'' for the PC in 1996.
She and Mortal Kombat actors Ho-Sung Pak (Liu Kang in the games and her boyfriend in that time), Daniel Pesina and Phillip Ahn appear in a never-released fighting game named ''Thea Realm Fighters'' which they produced exclusively for the Atari Jaguar.
She plays an female ninja in this story about Asian cop Lucky Lang (played by Ho-Sung Pak) who returns to Chicago in order to avenge his brother's death in ''Book of Swords'' (2007).
Action Movie Filmography
- Book Of Swords (2007)
- Mortal Kombat II (1993) ''video game''
