Martha Swatek Bradshaw was an actress who played Marge in Jaws 2. Jaws 2 was Martha Swatek's final film role.
Life
Swatek was born in Illinois, in 1959.
When she was 19, she was cast as the teenager named Marge.
As a young adult, she taught home economics and married once. Martha Swatek married Anthony Himbs, an actor.
They were married for 16 years, from 1984-2000, and had a son, Marco, born in 1985. She divorced Himbs, too.
Martha became a Kodak model, and finally changed her last name to Bradshaw.
Physical features
Martha has short dirty blonde hair, and blue eyes with long eyelashes.
While portraying Marge, Swatek wore a navy blue shirt with a white v-shaped collar, and blue pants to look like a sailor, and sandals on her feet and olive green sailing gloves on her hands. She also wore a hat of the same color blue earlier in the film.
Trivia
Swatek was good friends with Mark Gilpin and Donna Wilkes. She acted in only one film, Jaws 2, and never appeared in any other productions.
Portrayal in Jaws 2
Martha Swatek starred as Marge, the teenager who sails with Sean Brody in her Lightening. She first sneaks up on Sean, picking him up after he knocked over a bucket. The dialouge went like this:
- Marge: This guy giving you trouble?
- Sean: Put me down!
- Andy Nicholas: Put him down in the water.
- Marge: (to Sean) Do you want to ride in my boat?
- Sean: Yes.
Martha Swatek's character dies
- Marge sailed and watched a race the teens were having, until Doug Fetterman's boat got attacked by the shark. Marge held onto Sean as tight as she could, and both of them jumped off the boat before it capsized. When it was flipped over, Marge got onto the boat, and pulled Sean out of the water.
- The shark nearly eats Michael Brody, but narrowly misses, were it not for Polo and Timmy. The shark then bumps Marge's boat violently.
- The shark, after destroying a helicopter, then bumps the tangled mess of boats, sending both Bob, Andy's friend (who wore a hat the entire time), and Sean into the water. Marge spots Sean in the water, floating in peril. Marge then jumps into the water feet first, and swims after Sean.
- When she hoists Sean onto the boat, she tries to get onto the boat, but slips. The shark shockingly appears and bites down onto Marge, crushing her. She was swallowed whole offscreen.
Quotes
- This guy giving you trouble?
- Want to ride in my boat?
- How 'bout a skyhook?
- It's okay.
- Sean!
- Will you pull me? I can't get up! (character's final words)
Behind the scenes
The character jumped into water for the final time, without a life jacket, estimating Marge's age is about 19.
Swatek is a talented swimmer and diver.
Swatek had no idea the mechanical shark was coming behind her, and in fear, while it looks like the shark devoured her in the film, what Swatek actually did was dive underneath the boat to make it look like she had died.