| 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. |