Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and raised in Vail, Colorado,[1][2] Holden attended Battle Mountain High School, where she was a hitter on the volleyball team.
[5] She has guest-starred in JAG,[6] Tales from the Crypt, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, La Femme Nikita, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Suddenly Susan, and The Steve Harvey Show.
She was featured in Steven Spielberg's The Lost World and Jan de Bont's Speed 2: Cruise Control, as well as other films including Philadelphia Experiment II[7] as Jess after Courteney Cox bowed out of the role.
[9] In the short-lived Babylon 5 spin-off television series Crusade she served as Chief Medical Officer Dr. Sarah Chambers on the same ship.
[5] She appeared as Sheeva in the film Mortal Kombat Annihilation,[10] and starred as Jesse Gavin, an undercover cop specializing in martial arts alongside Cory Everson in Ballistic (1995).