| BIOGRAPHY
American actress Adrienne Barbeau was encouraged by her mother
to take dancing and singing lessons.
Adrienne was active in theatre both in high school and at Foothills
Junior College; by age 19 she was touring Pacific military bases
as a member of the San Jose Light Opera.
After an unprepossessing job with a termite-control company,
Adrienne set out for New York, paying the bills with a variety
of jobs including go-go dancing in New Jersey nightclubs.
In 1968 she was cast as Hodel in the long-running Broadway production
Fiddler on the Roof, and three years later was featured in Grease,
winning a Tony nomination through her rendition of "Look
at Me, I'm Sandra Dee."
From here, Adrienne was hired by Norman Lear to replace first-choice
actress Marcia Rodd in the role of the divorced daughter on the
controversial TV sitcom Maude. She played the role from 1972 through
the series' cancellation in 1978, after which she began a whole
new career as a successful horror-film star and sexy pin-up model.
Adrienne married film director John Carpenter in 1979; most of
her subsequent screen appearances were in such Carpenter-directed
terrors as The Fog (1980), Escape from New York (1981) and Creepshow
(1982).
Perhaps Adrienne Barbeau's most enjoyable performance was as
the Marlon Brando counterpart in an uproarious distaff parody
of Apocalypse Now, sublimely titled Cannibal Women in the Avocado
Jungle of Death (1989). |
FILMOGRAPHY
• The Time Traveller (2002)
• The Convent (2001)
• Across the Line (2000)
• The Convent (2000)
• Bimbo Movie Bash (1997)
• Burial of the Rats (1994)
• Silk Degrees (1994)
• The Burden of Proof (1992)
• Doublecrossed (1991)
• Monsters - My Zombie Lover/All in a Day's Work (1991)
• Two Evil Eyes (1990)
• Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death (1988)
• Open House (1987)
• Seduced (1985)
• Terror at London Bridge (1985)
• Creepshow (1982)
• The Next One (1982)
• Cannonball Run (1981)
• Escape from New York (1981)
• Swamp Thing (1981)
• Magic on Love Island (1980)
• The Fog (1979)
• Charlie and the Great Balloon Chase (1978)
• The Crash of Flight 401 (1978)
• Return to Fantasy Island (1977) |
