| BIOGRAPHY
The Standard Operating Procedure of those anonymous young lovelies
chosen as Playboy's Playmate of the Month is to make an extremely
brief flurry of au naturel movie appearances before rapidly fading
into the sunset. Such was not the case of very blonde, very buxom
Shannon Tweed.
After being anointed Playmate of the Month and Playmate of the
Year, the Canadian-born Tweed was able to sustain her film career
for nearly two decades. Her come-hither looks, cascading blonde
hair, and divine figure admittedly contributed to her durability,
but her strongest suit was her genuine acting ability and willingness
to poke fun at her image. The actress offered a comedy performance
worthy of a Colbert or Lombard as the fetchingly undraped star
of the Apocalypse Now spoof Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle
of Death (1990), while she was consistently superior to her material
(and most of her co-stars, female and male) in the Night Eyes
and Indecent Behavior films of the 1980s and 1990s.
Somewhat more modestly garbed in her television appearances,
Tweed has been a regular on the daytime soaper Days of Our Lives,
the nighttime serial Falcon Crest (1981-1982 season only, as Diana
Hunter), and the raunchy cable-TV sitcom First and Ten. In 1991,
she starred as air-service proprietor Sally "Slick"
Monroe on the diverting Canadian TV adventure weekly Fly By Night,
which ran in rerun form on CBS until 1993. The sister of actress
Tracy Tweed, Shannon Tweed has two children with Kiss musician
Gene Simmons. |
FILMOGRAPHY
• Dead Sexy (2001)
• Power Play (1999)
• The Rowdy Girls (1999)
• Dead by Dawn (1998)
• Naked Lies (1998)
• Shadow Warriors II: Hunt for the Death Merchant (1998)
• Bimbo Movie Bash (1997)
• Face the Evil (1997)
• Human Desires (1997)
• Stormy Nights (1997)
• Shadow Warriors: Assault on Devil's Island (1996)
• White Cargo (1996)
• Body Chemistry 4 - Full Exposure (1995)
• The Dark Dancer (1995)
• Electra (1995)
• Indecent Behavior 3 (1995)
• No Contest (1995)
• Hard Vice (1994)
• Illicit Dreams (1994)
• Indecent Behavior II (1994)
• Model by Day (1994)
• Night Fire (1994)
• Possessed by the Night (1994)
• Scorned (1994)
• Victim of Desire (1994)
• Cold Sweat (1993)
• Indecent Behavior (1993)
• Night Eyes 3 (1993)
• Liar's Edge (1992)
• The Naked Truth (1992)
• Sexual Response (1992)
• The Firing Line (1991)
• The Last Hour (1991)
• Night Eyes 2 (1991)
• Last Call (1990)
• Twisted Justice (1990)
• In the Cold of the Night (1989)
• The Last Fling (1989)
• The Night Visitor (1989)
• Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death (1988)
• Lethal Woman (1988)
• Codename: Vengeance (1987)
• Meatballs 3 (1987)
• Hot Dog - The Movie (1984)
• The Surrogate (1984)
• Of Unknown Origin (1983)
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