Adrienne Barbeau

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BIRTHDAY

June 11, 1945

Sacramento, CA

RECENT CREDITS

Fly Me to the Moon 3-D (FILM) Aug. 15, 2008

Halloween (FILM) Aug. 31, 2007

A Wake In Providence (FILM) Apr. 15, 2005

The Convent (FILM) Jan. 20, 2000

Back to School (FILM) Jan. 1, 2000

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BIOGRAPHY

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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).

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Sundance 2000: Calm Before the Storm

Jan. 21, 2000

PARK CITY, Utah, Jan. 19, 2000 -- And so this is Sundance. Sort of. There's no snow. No crowds. No film crews. The locals promise that a storm will hit Friday, and while it'd be clever to argue they're a day off -- that the real storm arrives Thursday in the form of Robert Redford's film festival cum schmoozefest (running through Jan. 30) -- they're not. There's nobody stinkin'...

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