Adrienne Barbeau
Adrienne Barbeau ( born June 11, 1945 in Sacramento, California) is an American actress and writer of Armenian origin.
Biography
During her high school and college time Barbeau took singing and dancing lessons. Mid-1960s, she toured as a member of the San Jose Light Opera ensembles over the Pacific bases of the U.S. military and worked towards the end of the decade in various jobs in New York City, including as a go-go dancer and ticket lady in night clubs. In 1968, she played the role of Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof and in 1972 the role of Betty Rizzo in the musical Grease. For her performance in Grease Barbeau was in 1972 nominated for a Tony Award as Best Supporting Actress in a Musical. Through her success on Broadway Norman Lear became aware of Adrienne Barbeau and offered her the role of Carol Traynor in the television series Maude, which they then played from 1972 until the cessation of the sitcom in 1978.
The actress married in 1979 director John Carpenter, who in some of his films, such as The Fog - The Fog occupied in 1980 and The Rattlesnake 1981. In director George A. Romero's film The Creepshow in 1981, they played as well as in Wes Craven's The Swamp Thing, 1982. 's Television Barbeau was between 2003 and 2005 in the series Carnivàle in 21 episodes on camera. After Barbeau and Carpenter divorced in 1984, married the actress in 1992, Billy Van Zandt, with whom she has two sons.
Filmography (selection)
Bibliography
Barbeaus autobiography There Are Worse Things I Could Do ( " There are worse things I could do " ) was published in 2006. In July 2008, she published her first novel, Vampyres of Hollywood, which she co-wrote with Michael Scott. The sequel to Love Bites (this time without Scott) appeared in 2010.
- Adrienne Barbeau: There Are Worse Things I Could Thu Carroll & Graf, New York 2006, ISBN 9,780,786,716,371th