Adrienne Barbeau


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06/10/1945
Sacramento, CA
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Released a folk album in 1998.
First major role came in 1968, when she played Hodel in the original Broadway cast of Fiddler on the Roof; has since starred in more than 25 plays and musicals.
Made her big-screen debut in 1980, when she starred in then-husband John Carpenter's ghost movie The Fog; re-teamed with Carpenter a year later for the director's 
Penned a 2006 autobiography, There Are Worse Things I Could Do; it was followed in 2008 by Barbeau's first novel, Vampyres of Hollywood, co-authored by Michael Scott.
Met her second husband, actor, playwright and producer Billy Van Zandt, in 1991, when she was cast in the West Coast premiere of his play Drop Dead!
Gave birth to identical twin boys at the age of 51. 
Became known to TV audiences in the early '70s as Carol Traynor, the divorced daughter of Bea Arthur's character on pioneering sitcom Maude.