Shannon Tweed

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BIRTHDAY

March 10, 1957

St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada

RECENT CREDITS

Larry King Live (TV) Nov. 19, 2007

Gene Simmons Family Jewels (TV) Aug. 26, 2007

My Guide to Becoming a Rock Star (TV) Apr. 11, 2002

Detroit Rock City (FILM) Aug. 13, 1999

Dead by Dawn (FILM) Jan. 1, 1998

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BIOGRAPHY

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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.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Dec. 17, 2003

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Listen Up!: Gene Simmons: behind the makeup

Posted: Nov. 15, 2001

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