Barbeau was born in Sacramento, California, in 1945, the daughter of Armene (née Nalbandian) and Joseph Barbeau, who was a public relations executive for Mobil Oil. Her mother was of Armenian descent and her father's ancestry was French Canadian, Irish, and German. She has a sister, Jocelyn, and a half brother on her father's side, Robert Barbeau, who still resides in the Sacramento area. She attended Del Mar High School in San Jose, California. In her autobiography, Barbeau says that she first caught the show business bug while entertaining troops at army bases throughout Southeast Asia, touring with the San Jose Civic Light Opera.
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Adrienne Barbeau | Early life
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He met his future wife, actress Adrienne Barbeau, on the set of his 1978 television film "Someone's Watching Me!". Carpenter was married to Barbeau from January 1, 1979, to 1984. During their marriage, Barbeau starred in "The Fog", and also appeared in "Escape from New York". The couple had one son, John Howard Jr. (born May 7, 1984), nicknamed "Cody" to avoid confusion with his father.
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Barbeau was married to director John Carpenter from January 1, 1979 to 1984. The two met on the set of his television movie, "Someone's Watching Me!" (1978). The couple had a son, John Howard "Cody" Carpenter Junior (born May 7, 1984), shortly before they separated. During their marriage, the couple lived in Hollywood Hills but according to Barbeau remained "totally outside Hollywood's social circles." Barbeau married actor/playwright/producer Billy Van Zandt, twelve years her junior, on December 31, 1992. The two met in 1991 when Barbeau was cast in the West Coast premiere of his play, "Drop Dead!" Billy is the half-brother of musician/actor Steven Van Zandt.
Adrienne Barbeau | Personal life
Barbeau was born in Sacramento, California, in 1945, the daughter of Armene (née Nalbandian) and Joseph Barbeau, who was a public relations executive for Mobil Oil. Her mother was of Armenian descent and her father's ancestry was French Canadian, Irish, and German. She has a sister, Jocelyn, and a half brother on her father's side, Robert Barbeau, who still resides in the Sacramento area. She attended Del Mar High School in San Jose, California. In her autobiography, Barbeau says that she first caught the show business bug while entertaining troops at army bases throughout Southeast Asia, touring with the San Jose Civic Light Opera.
Adrienne Barbeau | Early life
Adrienne Jo Barbeau (born June 11, 1945) is an American actress, singer and the author of three books. Barbeau came to prominence in the 1970s as Broadway's original Rizzo in the musical "Grease", and as Carol Traynor, the divorced daughter of Maude Findlay (played by Beatrice Arthur) on the sitcom "Maude" (1972–1978). In 1980 she began appearing in horror and science fiction films, including "The Fog" (1980), "Escape from New York" (1981), "Creepshow" (1982), and "Swamp Thing" (1982). Other films included: "Back to School" (1986) and "Argo" (2012). During the 1990s, she became known for providing the voice of Catwoman on "" (1992–1995), and subsequent Batman cartoon series.
Adrienne Barbeau | Introduction
Carpenter met his future wife, actress Adrienne Barbeau, on the set of his 1978 television film "Someone's Watching Me!". Carpenter was married to Barbeau from January 1, 1979, to 1984. During their marriage, Barbeau starred in "The Fog", and also appeared in "Escape from New York". The couple had one son, John Howard Jr. (born May 7, 1984), nicknamed "Cody" to avoid confusion with his father. Carpenter has been married to producer Sandy King since 1990. King produced Carpenter's later films "In the Mouth of Madness", "Village of the Damned", "Vampires", and "Ghosts of Mars". She earlier had been the script supervisor for his films "Starman", "Big Trouble in Little China", "Prince of Darkness", and "They Live".
John Carpenter | Personal life
In the 1990s, Barbeau mostly appeared in made-for-television films such as Scott Turow's "The Burden of Proof" (1992), as well as playing Oswald's mother on "The Drew Carey Show" and gaining new fame among animation fans as Catwoman on "" and "Gotham Girls". She also appeared on the ABC show "Revenge" as Victoria's mother. She also worked as a television talk show host and a weekly book reviewer for KABC talk radio in Los Angeles. In 1999, she guest starred in the "" episode "" as Romulan Senator Kimara Cretak. In 1994, she also appeared in the "Babylon 5" episode "Spider in the Web" as Amanda Carter.
Adrienne Barbeau | 1990s–present
Barbeau was born in Montreal, Quebec, on May 8, 1949. Her father is painter and sculptor Marcel Barbeau and her mother, Suzanne Meloche, is a poet and painter. She and her partner, cinematographer Philippe Lavalette, have a daughter, Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, who is an actor and film director. While doing research in the archives of the Université de Montréal for her documentary, "Les Enfants de Refus global", Barbeau found correspondence detailing her mother’s love affair with Paul-Émile Borduas, the dissolution of her parents’ romantic relationship, as well as evidence that they had abandoned her at the age of three.
Manon Barbeau | Personal life
The film was shot in eighteen days. "I had some control over it," said Carpenter. "I was able to shoot only what I wanted, I wouldn't cover it... I just gave them what I wanted and it got okayed." Carpenter worked with Adrienne Barbeau, whom he married in 1979, for the first time when making "Someones Watching Me!". Barbeau later starred in "The Fog" (1980) and had a supporting role in "Escape from New York" (1981). The television station Leigh Michaels gets a job at is named KJHC. The last three letters are a secret wink to the writer and director's full name: John Howard Carpenter.
Someone's Watching Me! | Shooting
She was not Maude when she wasn't saying those lines. I don't know if I'd say she was quiet. She was a homebody. She had her sons, her dog and her cooking and she wasn't into the celebrity scene and she was a great lady. I loved her dearly and we had a great cast and they were my family for six years. I loved each of them and all of them and it was the best experience anyone could've had, being introduced to television like that!" Barbeau was cast in numerous television films and series such as "The Love Boat", "Fantasy Island", "Valentine Magic on Love Island" and "Battle of the Network Stars".
Adrienne Barbeau | 1960s–1989
In her autobiography, she claimed: "I actually thought CBS asked me to be on "Battle of the Network Stars" because they thought I was athletic. My husband clued me in: who cared if I won the race, as long as I bounced when I ran?"
Adrienne Barbeau | 1960s–1989
She gave birth to twin boys, Walker Steven and William Dalton Van Zandt, on March 17, 1997, at age 51, claiming she was the only one on the maternity ward who was also a member of AARP. The couple filed for divorce in 2018.
Adrienne Barbeau | Personal life
Cast as the female lead was Adrienne Barbeau, Carpenter's wife, who had appeared in Carpenter's TV movie "Someone's Watching Me!" in 1978. This was her first feature film. Barbeau also appeared in Carpenter's next film, "Escape from New York" (1981). Tom Atkins, a friend of Barbeau's, was cast as Nick Castle. "The Fog" was Atkins' first appearance in a Carpenter film, and he also appeared in Carpenter's next film, "Escape from New York" (1981) as well as "" (1982), which was produced and scored by Carpenter. Jamie Lee Curtis, who was the main star of Carpenter's 1978 hit "Halloween", appeared as Elizabeth.
The Fog | Casting
In the late 1960s, Barbeau moved to New York City and worked "for the mob" as a go-go dancer. She made her Broadway debut in the chorus of "Fiddler on the Roof", and later took the role of Hodel, Tevye's daughter; Bette Midler played her character's sister Tzeitel. She left "Fiddler" in 1971 to play the leading role of Cookie Kovac in the off-Broadway nudie musical "Stag Movie". Barbeau, as Cookie Kovac, and Brad Sullivan, as Rip Cord, were "quite jolly and deserve to be congratulated on the lack of embarrassment they show when, on occasion, they have to wander around stark naked.
Adrienne Barbeau | 1960s–1989
They may not be sexy but they certainly keep cheerful," wrote "The New York Times" theater critic Clive Barnes in an otherwise negative review. Barbeau went on to star in more than 25 musicals and plays, including "Women Behind Bars", "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas", and "Grease". She received a Theater World Award and a 1972 Tony Award nomination for her portrayal of tough-girl Rizzo in "Grease". During the 1970s, Barbeau starred as Carol Traynor, the daughter of Bea Arthur's title character, on the comedy series "Maude", which ran from 1972 to 1978 (actress Marcia Rodd had originated the role of Carol in a 1972 episode of "All in the Family", also titled "Maude," alongside Arthur).
Adrienne Barbeau | 1960s–1989
Adrienne Marden (born Mabel Baruch, September 2, 1909 – November 9, 1978) was an American film and television actress.
Adrienne Marden | Introduction
In her autobiography, "There Are Worse Things I Could Do", Barbeau remarked: "What I didn't know is that when I said [my lines] I was usually walking down a flight of stairs and no one was even listening to me. They were just watching my breasts precede me." During the last season of "Maude", Barbeau did not appear in the majority of the episodes. In a 2009 "Entertainment Tonight" TV interview, Barbeau mentioned that she had good on- and off-camera chemistry with Arthur; she said that the two stayed close until Arthur's death on April 25, 2009. Barbeau and Arthur reunited on camera during a 2007 taping of "The View", reminiscing about their long-running friendship and their years as co-stars on "Maude".
Adrienne Barbeau | 1960s–1989
Fazan was born in Germany, to John Fazan and Magdalena Fremdling. She became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1923, and by 1930 was living in Los Angeles and working as a film editor at a studio.
Adrienne Fazan | Biography
Arquette was born in New York City, the daughter of Brenda Olivia "Mardi" ("née" Nowak; 1939–1997), an actress, poet, theater operator, activist, acting teacher, and therapist, and Lewis Arquette, a film actor, screenwriter, and producer. Her paternal grandfather was comedian Cliff Arquette. Her mother was Jewish, from a family that emigrated from Poland and Russia. Her father, whose family's surname was originally "Arcouet", was of part-French Canadian descent. Her father was a convert from Catholicism to Islam; through him, Arquette is distantly related to explorer Meriwether Lewis. Her siblings, Richmond, Patricia, Alexis, and David, all became actors as well.
Rosanna Arquette | Early life
"Quanza", stopped in Mexico, they were stranded, along with around 200 other passengers, when the Chilean visas they had purchased turned out to be forgeries. Eventually, they were able to get temporary Canadian passports and entered the United States. Lebeau made her Hollywood debut in "Hold Back the Dawn" (1941), which featured Charles Boyer and Olivia de Havilland in the leading roles. The following year, she appeared in the Errol Flynn movie "Gentleman Jim", a biography of Irish-American boxer James J. Corbett. Lebeau learned English during a seven-week stay with Dalio on a Portuguese freighter that was seeking a port for landing.
Madeleine Lebeau | Early life
Arquette was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1968 to Lewis Arquette, an actor, and Brenda Olivia "Mardi" (née Nowak), who was involved in the arts and worked as a therapist. Through her father, Patricia is distantly related to explorer Meriwether Lewis. Arquette's father had converted from Catholicism to Islam. Arquette's mother was Jewish, and her ancestors emigrated from Poland and Russia. Her father's family's surname was originally "Arcouet", and his paternal line was of French-Canadian descent. Her paternal grandfather was comedian Cliff Arquette. Patricia's siblings also became actors: Rosanna, Richmond, Alexis, and David. When she was a child, her parents offered to get her braces for her teeth; but she refused, telling them she wanted to have flaws because it would help her with character acting.
Patricia Arquette | Early life and family
Adrienne D'Ambricourt (born Adrienne DuNontier; 2 June 1878 – 6 December 1957) was an American actress of the silent and sound film eras. She was born in Paris, and emigrated to the United States after the end of World War I. She began acting in the 1922 Gershwin Broadway musical comedy, "The French Doll", in which she had one of the main roles, "Baroness Mazulier". She made her film debut in the 1924 silent film, "The Humming Bird", where she was one of Gloria Swanson's gang of thieves who turned into resistance fighters in World War I. With the advent of talking pictures, and before dubbing came into general use, D'Ambricourt was used in several films which were the French version of English language ones, such as "Quand on est belle" ("The Easiest Way" — 1931), "L'énigmatique Mr.
Adrienne D'Ambricourt | Introduction
In the 2000s, she appeared on the HBO series "Carnivàle" as Ruthie the snake dancer.
Adrienne Barbeau | Introduction
Davis was born on September 26, 1973 in Los Angeles. When she was seventeen, she left home to pursue a career in classical ballet in New York but after finding she was too tall to audition for corps de ballet she decided to become a fashion model instead. She is half Yankton Sioux.
Julienne Davis | Early life
Adrienne Kroell (December 13, 1892- October 2, 1949), was an American actress. She appeared in over 75 to 90 films between 1909 and 1914. She was born in Chicago, Illinois. She later moved to St. Louis, Missouri, and attended Yeatman High School. Kroell began acting on stage in St. Louis in 1906 after she won a beauty contest there. She first appeared in film in 1909 and appeared in films mostly made by the Selig Polyscope Company until 1914. "The Cowboy Millionaire" was her first film appearance which also starred Tom Mix. She retired from acting in 1917 after she developed arthritis.
Adrienne Kroell | Introduction
Constance Bennett was born in New York City, the eldest of three daughters of actress Adrienne Morrison and actor Richard Bennett. Her younger sisters were actresses Joan Bennett and Barbara Bennett. All three girls attended the Chapin School in New York.
Constance Bennett | Early life
Adrienne Dore was born Elizabeth Himmelsbach on the army base of Fort Sherman in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho before moving to Yakima and then Seattle, Washington where she attended school at a convent. She performed in her first musical there at age three. Her education at Forrest Ridge Convent was in general studies but she focused on dancing and the theater.
Adrienne Dore | Early life
Crain was born in Barstow, California, to George A. Crain, a schoolteacher, and Loretta Carr, Irish Catholic parents. By 1930, the family was living in Inglewood, California at 822 S. Walnut Avenue. After her parents divorced in 1934, the family of three moved to 5817 Van Ness Ave in Los Angeles. An excellent ice skater, Crain first attracted attention when she was crowned Miss Pan-Pacific at the Pan-Pacific Auditorium in Los Angeles. Later, while still in high school, she was asked to take a screen test with Orson Welles. She did not get the part. In 1943, she appeared in a bit part in the film "The Gang's All Here".
Jeanne Crain | Early life
Adrienne Morrison was a daughter of actress Rose Wood and actor Lewis Morrison. In 1905, she appeared as Nat-u-ritch, an Aboriginal American woman, in the play "The Squaw Man" with William Faversham. Morrison and actor Richard Bennett married on November 9, 1903, but she retained her maiden name. Their daughters, Barbara Bennett, Constance Bennett, and Joan Bennett, would all become film actresses. Of the three, Joan would become the best known in acting, although both she and Constance would see wide success. Barbara never achieved the success of her sisters in acting, but married Morton Downey, and the couple had five children, with their first born being Morton Downey Jr..
Adrienne Morrison | Biography
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Marden attended the University of Michigan, where she was active in dramatics.
Adrienne Marden | Early years
Adrienne Dairolles (born 1863 in France; d. 1940 in Cornwall) was an actress.
Adrienne Dairolles | Introduction
Adrienne Ames (born Ruth Adrienne McClure; August 3, 1907 – May 31, 1947) was an American film actress. Early in her career she was known as Adrienne Truex.
Adrienne Ames | Introduction
Suzanne Caubet was born in Lévignac to French parents. She was raised in Paris, and knew her godmother Sarah Bernhardt through her father Prospere Caubet and uncle, Georges Deneubourg, both actors. She was a child actor and traveled with Bernhardt's company to the United States, where Caubet stayed after 1919.
Suzanne Caubet | Early life
Barbeau-Lavalette was born on February 8, 1979, in Montreal, the daughter of Manon Barbeau, a filmmaker and director, and Philip Lavalette, a cinematographer. She is the granddaughter of the Canadian artist Marcel Barbeau, who studied under Paul-Émile Borduas, and is known for being one of the first non-figurative painters in Canada. As a young adult, Barbeau-Lavalette lived and studied in the heavily disputed West Bank area. In 2000, after finishing her first full-length documentary, "Les Petits princes des bidonvilles" (2000), Barbeau-Lavalette enrolled at the Université de Montréal, where she majored in International Studies. She then went on to study Film Production at the INIS.
Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette | Early life
Marjorie Burnet Rambeau (July 15, 1889 – July 6, 1970) was an American film and stage actress. She began her stage career at age 12, and appeared in several silent films before debuting in her first sound film, "Her Man" (1930). She was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her roles in "Primrose Path" (1940) and "Torch Song" (1953), and received the 1955 National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress for her roles in "A Man Called Peter" and "The View from Pompey's Head".
Marjorie Rambeau | Introduction
Mabel Adrienne Morrison (March 1, 1883 – November 20, 1940) was an American stage actress of the early 20th century. She married actor Richard Bennett, with whom she had three daughters who later would become actresses.
Adrienne Morrison | Introduction
Angeles Arrien was born in 1940 in the Basque Country, Spain, to Salvatore Arrien and Marie Elordi. She moved with her family to Idaho, USA, when she was seven years old, and later became a naturalized American. She received a Bachelor's degree from the University of Idaho, a Master's degree from the University of California Berkeley, and a doctorate from the California Institute of Integral Studies.
Angeles Arrien | Early life
Born in Palisades Park, New Jersey, Barbara Bennett was the second of three daughters born to actor Richard Bennett and his wife, actress Adrienne Morrison. Her maternal grandfather was the stage actor Lewis Morrison. Her older sister Constance later became a successful film actress as did her younger sister Joan. The girls attended the Chapin School with the actress Jane Wyatt.
Barbara Bennett | Family
Born in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S., the daughter of Marguerite (née Andrus), a Hollywood actress and former 'Miss Long Beach' beauty contest winner, and Arthur Guy Empey. She received her formal education at the Hollywood High School. As a child she received ballet lessons from Russian ballerina Maria Bekefi.
Diane Webber | Early life
Born in Los Angeles, French was the daughter of Lloyd Moultrie, a show-business lawyer. She was a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Susan French | Early years
In 1998, Barbeau released her debut album as a folk singer, the self-titled "Adrienne Barbeau". She starred in the cartoon series "Totally Spies!" doing the voice of villainess Helga Von Guggen in seasons 1, 2 and 4.
Adrienne Barbeau | 1990s–present
Brennan was born Verla Eileen Regina Brennen on September 3, 1932, in Los Angeles, California, daughter of Regina "Jeanne" Menehan, a silent film actress, and John Gerald Brennen, a doctor. Of Irish descent, she was raised Catholic. After graduating from high school in California, Brennan relocated to Washington, D.C., to attend Georgetown University, where she was a member of the Mask and Bauble Society. She later relocated to New York City to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, where she was roommates with Rue McClanahan.
Eileen Brennan | Early life
Alexander was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, to a Lebanese-American family. Her father died when she was three, and when her mother remarried, the family moved to Brooklyn, New York. She was sent to attend a convent school on Long Island. She became a model and actress, and studied acting in Europe with Benno Schneider, a director in the Yiddish theater. Though Abrass later took the first name Joan after the actress Joan Crawford, the origin of the name Alexander is unknown, according to her family. An early, first marriage in 1944 to actor John Sylvester White, who became known as Principal Woodman on "Welcome Back, Kotter", was also unknown to Alexander's family until two years before Alexander's death.
Joan Alexander | Early life and career
Arquette was born Robert Arquette in Los Angeles, the fourth of five children of Brenda Olivia "Mardi" (née Nowak), an actress, poet, theater operator, activist, acting teacher, and therapist; and Lewis Arquette, an actor and director. Lewis's family's surname was originally "Arcouet"; Lewis's father was comedian Cliff Arquette, who went by the stage name of Charley Weaver. Arquette was distantly related to American explorer Meriwether Lewis. Actors Rosanna, Richmond, Patricia, and David Arquette are her siblings.
Alexis Arquette | Early life
She was born in Hollywood, California, to actor Jack Holt and his wife, Margaret Woods. She was the sister of western actor Tim Holt. Her education included schooling at convents in Belgium, Santiago College in Chile, and The Bishop's School in La Jolla, California.
Jennifer Holt | Early years
Ames was married three times. In 1920, while still a teenager, she married Derward Dumont Truax, who was the son of an oil man. They had a daughter, and they divorced in 1924. A later marriage to broker Stephen Ames ended in divorce on October 30, 1933. Her last marriage, on October 31, 1933, was to fellow actor Bruce Cabot; they divorced on July 24, 1935.
Adrienne Ames | Personal life
Jacqueline Frances Labofish was born in Washington, D.C. Her father, John Paul Labofish (15 January 1891 – 11 September 1956), was a Washington lawyer. Her mother, Jeanne Victoria Anne "Adrienne" Clerec (29 July 1901 – 4 February 1974), was French, from Brittany. Her parents had met while her father was serving in the U.S. Navy at Brest (Brittany) after the First World War. Her paternal grandparents, Rose (Lamlec) and Charles Labofisz, were Jewish immigrants from Odessa, Ukraine, then a part of the Russian Empire. Her family lived with body builder Charles Atlas, who trained the family in gymnastics, weight lifting, and jogging.
Jackie Stallone | Early life
Baur was born in Los Angeles, California. Juanita Gless, her great-grandmother, was an early settler of California who came from the Basque region of France. Actress Sharon Gless is Baur's first cousin. Her father, Jack Baur, was a veteran casting director at 20th Century Fox, and did not want his daughter in the industry. She attended Immaculate Heart High School in Los Angeles.
Elizabeth Baur | Early life
Du Page was born in Paris into a family of French nobility but spent the most of her life in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, later moving back to Paris to pursue her acting career.
Julie du Page | Early life and career
Adrianne Ellis (born March 8, 1941) is a Canadian-born American-actress.
Adrienne Ellis | Introduction
Adrianne Ellis was born in Canada and raised in California, where she attended Van Nuys High School, where she was president of her Honors Drama Society. She went on to study at UCLA, where she distinguished herself in the theater and acted in the first student film directed by then fellow student Francis Ford Coppola.
Adrienne Ellis | Early life
Miles was born in Nice, France, the daughter of Jeanne Patterson Miles, an American painter, and Johannes Schiefer, a French painter and art curator. She immigrated to the United States, and was naturalized a citizen, in 1941. She graduated from The Putney School, a progressive independent high school in Putney, Vermont, in 1958. She was accepted into the Actors Studio, where she studied alongside Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, and Dustin Hoffman.
Joanna Miles | Early life and education
King was born July 21, 1960 in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York. She is a first-generation American; her mother was English and from Liverpool. She appeared in her first commercial when she was six months old. In 1965 around age five, she appeared in the television film "Inherit the Wind" in a supporting role. The experience sparked an interest in performance, and King went on to appear in commercials and act in local theater and Off-Broadway productions throughout her childhood. Beginning in ninth grade, she began auditioning for films in New York City: "As long as I kept my grades up, everyone was cool with it," she recalled.
Adrienne King | 1960–1979: Early life and roles
De Fougerolles was born on 25 February 1973 in Vannes, Morbihan, France. The daughter of Alain Rigoine de Fougerolles and Anne Saumay de Laval. She was initially planning to become a beautician, but she began to study acting at age 15. She later attended acting classes in Paris and briefly attending the Actors Studio in New York City.
Hélène de Fougerolles | Early life
Rescher was born in New York City. His father Jay Rescher was a cinematographer and union organizer, and his mother Jean Tolley was a silent film actress. For at least some of his youth, he and his family lived on Long Island. After high school, Gayne, served in World War II as a fighter pilot. He studied to be an actor at the American Theater School.
Gayne Rescher | Early life
Adrienne Lecouvreur was born on 5 April 1692, in the village of Damery in the province of Champagne. Her father, Robert Couvreur, was a hat maker who, in the hope of more lucrative opportunities, moved with his family to Paris. After the death of his wife, Marie Couvreur, Mr. Couvreur started frequenting taverns, leaving young Adrienne and her sister Marie Marguerite to fend for themselves. Young Adrienne found her own refuge watching rehearsals in the Comedie Francaise, and joining the rehearsals of a young, clandestine theater troupe that met in the back store of a grocer's shop on the rue Férou.
Adrienne Lecouvreur | Early years
De Treaux stood at 31 inches tall and had dwarfism. She was the verified shortest ever actress. She first became interested in acting at age 13. She was a 1978 graduate of San Leandro High School, San Leandro, California. De Treaux would make many of her own clothes. In 1990, she died at age 31 from respiratory and heart problems at the North Hollywood Medical Center and is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills).
Tamara De Treaux | Personal life
Adrienne Janic (Serbian Cyrillic: Адриана Јанић; born July 25, 1974), sometimes credited simply as AJ, is an American actress and television host of Serbian and Mexican descent.
Adrienne Janic | Introduction
Barbeau's autobiography "There Are Worse Things I Could Do" was published in 2006 by Carroll & Graf, rising to #11 on the "Los Angeles Times" best-sellers list. In July 2008, her first novel, "Vampyres of Hollywood", was published by St Martin's Press. The novel was co-written by Michael Scott. The first sequel "Love Bites" was published in 2010, and the second, "Make Me Dead" was published in 2015.
Adrienne Barbeau | Bibliography
Jean Trounstine, the daughter of Henry Philip and Amy Joseph Trounstine, grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. She attended Walnut Hills High School (Cincinnati, Ohio), a public college-preparatory high school recognized as one of the nation's best. She graduated with a B.A. in theater with honors from Beloit College in 1965, and an M.F.A. in acting from Brandeis University in 1973. She began her career as an actress, pursued films and theater in California and has performed in 30 plays.
Jean Trounstine | Early life and education
Calvet was born in Paris. Her mother was a scientist who played a part in the development of Pyrex glass. One of her sisters, a doctor, died when taken hostage by the Germans during the war. She and her father had to flee Paris when the Germans came. Calvet studied criminal law at the Sorbonne. "A lawyer needs exactly what an actor needs, strong personality, persuasive powers and a good voice", she said later.
Corinne Calvet | Early life
Jennifer Blanc (born Jennifer Tara, April 21, 1974) is an American actress. She was born in New York City, and began her career at the age of 10, in 1984. She is married to actor Michael Biehn.
Jennifer Blanc | Introduction
A Chicago native, Bal was an only child, the daughter of Joseph Peter Bal (1899–1981), a Monogram Pictures scenic designer, and Bessie Lee " "Bozeman" " Bal (1902–1967). She was raised in California, attending high school and junior college in Santa Monica. She worked as a fashion model for a year and a half.
Jeanne Bal | Early years
Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, she moved to Chicago when she was six. She stayed there for a time, and in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, before she settled in Chicago. She was sixteen when by curiosity she happened by the Essanay Studios. She was told she had a "camera face". She began working there at a salary of $35/week. It was soon increased to $75 a week ($ today). In a few years the actress was earning $350 weekly.
Beverly Bayne | Early life
She would appear in 20 more films, mainly French, including "La Parisienne" (1957), with Brigitte Bardot as the star, as well as in Federico Fellini's "8½" (1963). Lebeau's last two films were Spanish productions in 1965. In 1988, she married her third husband, Italian screenwriter Tullio Pinelli who had contributed to the script of "8½".
Madeleine Lebeau | Later years
Marni was born in Toulouse in 1854. The daughter of a "femme de lettres", she trained as an actress.
Jeanne Marni | Early years and education
Ames was born in Fort Worth, Texas, one of six children of Samuel Hugh McClure and Flora Parthenia (née Potter) McClure,
Adrienne Ames | Early years
Traveling between Europe and America she landed various roles in TV movies, co-starring next to Dean Cain and David Keith amongst others.
Adrienne McQueen | Early life
Born Gerda Susanne Tafel in Bavaria, Germany, she immigrated to the United States at age 7 on March 12, 1938, shortly before the outbreak of World War II. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Ta Fel, she grew up in Newark, New Jersey, where her father ran a bakery.
Susan Cummings (actress) | Early years
Adrienne Wilkinson was born in Memphis, Missouri. She graduated from Kickapoo High School in Springfield. She moved to Los Angeles, California to pursue acting after graduating from high school. She was two years old when she started taking dance lessons and performed on stage as a dancer throughout her youth until she moved to Los Angeles to become an actress. She has two younger sisters and a younger brother. Her younger sister, Tracey Bradley, is a director and producer for Pulse Studios. Her youngest sister, Aimee Wilkinson, is a musician. The three sisters worked on the film "Expectation" together in 2005.
Adrienne Wilkinson | Biography
Adrienne Dore (born Elizabeth Himmelsbach; May 22, 1907 – November 26, 1992) was an American model and beauty pageant winner. She was first runner-up in the Miss America 1925 pageant, competing as Miss Los Angeles. Dore was also an actress and went on to have a modest career in motion pictures.
Adrienne Dore | Introduction
Adrienne Elizabeth McNeil was born on July 22, 1869, in Savannah, Georgia. She is described by historian Rebecca Burns as "short and lithe with a lively manner and sophisticated bearing" "[w]ith her creamy skin, wavy brown hair, and dark eyes, Adrienne moved easily [...] and kept her racial background a secret". She was about five feet tall. McNeil was an 1890 graduate of Atlanta University's Normal Department, and attended the Boston School of Dramatic Arts (1902-3) and New York City's American Academy of Dramatic Arts. For her final project she performed "Anthony and Cleopatra" under the stage name Anne Du Bignon, claiming she was French-Creole.
Adrienne McNeil Herndon | Biography
List was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Douglas List and wife Sherri Anderson but grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, with her sister Brittany List. She began her education at Cedarcroft pre-school and Calvert School, and then went to the Roland Park Country School in Baltimore. She studied ballet at the School of American Ballet in New York City.
Peyton List (actress, born 1986) | Early life
For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Rambeau has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6336 Hollywood Blvd.
Marjorie Rambeau | Career
Ames died of cancer on May 31, 1947, in New York City, aged 39. She is interred in the Oakwood Cemetery in her hometown of Fort Worth, Texas. For her contributions to the film industry, Ames has a motion pictures star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1612 Vine Street. It was dedicated February 8, 1960.
Adrienne Ames | Death
Carradine was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Susan Snyder, a horse trainer's assistant, and actor Robert Carradine. She has two half-siblings, Marika Reed Carradine and Ian Alexander Carradine. A number of other members of the Carradine family are also actors, including her grandfather John Carradine, and uncles Keith Carradine and David Carradine. She is also a cousin of Martha Plimpton. Carradine skied and played volleyball during her time at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. She started as an anthropology major and later pursued her family profession by switching to a theater major midway through college.
Ever Carradine | Early life and education
Ardant was born in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France, to a military attaché father. She grew up in Monaco until age 17, when she moved to Aix-en-Provence to study at the Institut d'études politiques d'Aix-en-Provence. In her early twenties, her interest turned to acting and in 1974 she made her first appearance on stage. Ardant has three daughters: Lumir, from a relationship with French actor Dominique Leverd, was born in 1975; Ardant and partner François Truffaut, together from 1981 until his death in 1984, had daughter Joséphine in 1983; her third daughter Baladine, from a relationship with Italian film producer and cinematographer Fabio Conversi, was born in 1990.
Fanny Ardant | Personal life
Marie Madeleine Berthe Lebeau (10 June 1923 – 1 May 2016) was a French film actress.
Madeleine Lebeau | Introduction
Allen was born in Manhattan, New York, to Charles Thomas Henshall and Grace Esther Selby "(maiden;" 1885–1916). Following her mother's death when Allen was 9, she went to live with an aunt and uncle in Los Angeles. She was educated at Los Angeles High School, UCLA, Stanford University, and the Sorbonne. Her acting ability first surfaced in school plays. Concentrating on language at the Sorbonne, she became proficient in French, Spanish, German and Italian.
Barbara Jo Allen | Early years
Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Carpenter started her film career at the age of three. Her fame grew in the early-1920s as she made a series of successful appearances in films such as, "Helen's Babies" with Baby Peggy, and "The Sign of the Rose". She had occasional adult roles through 1940s, then she retired from film business. Carpenter died of emphysema in Oxnard, California.
Jeanne Carpenter | Biography
Casaubon was born in Brunswick, Maine, and was raised in Nashua, New Hampshire and Southbridge, Massachusetts. After serving four years in the U.S. Army, he moved to New York City in 2001 to pursue an acting career. He is a distant relative of French actress Janine Darcey.
Josh Casaubon | Early life
Pauline Lapointe (May 12, 1950 - August 30, 2010) was a Canadian film and television actress and singer from Quebec. She was most noted for her performance in the 1993 film "La Florida", for which she garnered a Genie Award nomination for Best Actress at the 14th Genie Awards. The twin sister of actress Louise Portal, she was born in Chicoutimi, Quebec. She released two albums as a pop singer, "Pauline Lapointe" (1980) and "Je dis oui" (1983), before concentrating primarily on acting. Her other film roles included "The Handyman (L'Homme à tout faire)", "Sonatine", "The Alley Cat (Le Matou)", "Cruising Bar", "The Ideal Man (L'Homme idéal)" and "It's Your Turn, Laura Cadieux (C'est à ton tour, Laura Cadieux)", while her television roles included "Watatatow", "L'Obsession" and "Emma".
Pauline Lapointe | Introduction
Born in Phoenix, Arizona, she wanted to be an actress from age 4. She was valedictorian of her class at a high school in New York City and attended the Feagin School of Dramatic Art. She had experience in vaudeville before she began working in radio.
Claire Niesen | Early years
Obradors was born in the San Fernando Valley, the daughter of Argentine immigrants Angie, a church worker, and Albert Obradors, an office cleaning business owner. Before becoming an actress, Jacqueline was a cashier at Hughes Market in Canoga Park, California.
Jacqueline Obradors | Early life
Archer was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of actors John Archer and Marjorie Lord. She graduated from Pitzer College in Claremont, California in 1968.
Anne Archer | Early life
Lucienne Bogaert (born Lucienne Jeanne Gabrielle Lefebvre; 6 January 1892 in Caudry, Nord – 4 February 1983 in Montrouge, Hauts-de-Seine) was a French actress. She started her career in theatre, but later also worked in film. After she divorced her husband Robert Bogaert, she retained his name for professional purposes.
Lucienne Bogaert | Introduction
Brisebois was born on June 28, 1969, in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Mary and Frank Brisebois, a computer instructor. She is of French-Canadian and Italian descent. She began her career as a child actress appearing in her first movie, "The Premonition" (1976), at the age of seven. In 1977, she appeared in an episode of "Kojak" and began starring in the original Broadway cast of "Annie" as the youngest of the orphans, Molly. (Jay-Z later sampled a clip of Brisebois from "Annie" for his song "Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)".) In the late 1970s, she joined the cast of "All in the Family", then co-starred in its spin-off "Archie Bunker's Place" from 1979 to 1983.
Danielle Brisebois | Early life and acting career
Connors was born in New Jersey as Carol Campau. She grew up in New Jersey and Texas.
Carol Connors (actress) | Early life
Suzanne Lebeau (born April 28, 1948) is a Quebec actor and writer. The daughter of Blanche Payette and Paul Lebeau, she was born in Montreal. Drawn to the theatre, she studied with Jacques Crête and Gilles Maheu and performed in classical and contemporary works. Lebeau went on to study with the mime Étienne Decroux in Paris and then studied pantomime and marionettes in Wroclaw, Poland with the Henryk Tomaszewski Pantomime Theatre and Puppet Theatre. She was exposed to children's theatre through a contract with Théâtre La Roulotte in Longueuil. She has taught writing for young audiences, including at the National Theatre School of Canada.
Suzanne Lebeau | Introduction
Her daughters, Joséphine-Félicité-Augustine and Ethelie Madeleine, were both also actors.
Augustine Susanne Brohan | Family
About her relationship with Arthur, Barbeau said in a 2018 interview with Dread Central: "I was doing an interview for this one-woman show that I am doing and the interviewer asked, 'What do people usually ask you,' and I said, 'They always want to know what it was like working with Bea.' She was fantastic and, you know, I realized years later how much I took it for granted because it was my first experience on television. I just assumed that everyone was as giving as she was, as professional as she was, that everyone who was doing a TV show showed up knowing their lines and showed up on time and was willing to say to the writers, 'I think this line was funnier if Adie had said it or Conrad had said it or Bill had said it.' I mean, she was just the best, she was the best, very funny.
Adrienne Barbeau | 1960s–1989
Marguerite Gabrielle Courtot was born in Summit, New Jersey, on August 20, 1897 to Gustave Courtot, who was born in France, and Charlotte Marie Courtot (née. Kramer), who was born in Switzerland, and later followed in her daughter's footsteps in becoming an actress. Gustave arrived in America in 1887, and Charlotte one year later. The two married in Manhattan on July 7, 1890, and Marguerite's sister, Juliette, was born two and a half months later. Marguerite was of French and German descent. Courtot received her education in New York and Switzerland.
Marguerite Courtot | Early life
Pfeiffer was born on January 1, 1964, in Midway City, California, the daughter of Donna (née Taverna), a homemaker, and Richard Pfeiffer, a heating and air-conditioning contractor. She is the younger sister of actress Michelle Pfeiffer. Her parents were both originally from North Dakota.
Dedee Pfeiffer | Early life
Patricia Charbonneau was born in Valley Stream, New York on Long Island, the youngest of 10 children. Her father, a retired businessman, is French; her mother is Austrian. She graduated in 1977 from Valley Stream Central High School, which she attended with fellow actors Steve Buscemi and Steve Hytner, as well as writer Ed Renehan. She later attended Boston University as a theater major, and left after a month to take a position with the Lexington Conservatory Theatre company in the Catskills. The story of the Conservatory Theater is chronicled in the documentary "The Loss of Nameless Things".
Patricia Charbonneau | Early life
Following "Casablanca", Lebeau appeared in two further American films. The first was a large role in the war drama "Paris After Dark" (1943), with her former husband. The following year, Lebeau had a smaller role in "Music for Millions". She appeared on Broadway in the play "The French Touch" in a production directed by René Clair. After the end of World War II, Lebeau returned to France and continued her acting career. She appeared in "Les Chouans" ("The Royalists", 1947) and worked in Great Britain, appearing in a film with Jean Simmons, "Cage of Gold" (1950).
Madeleine Lebeau | After "Casablanca"
Dore moved to Los Angeles, California, and pursued a career in acting, obtaining a job at the Century Roof. She was a singer in the musical review ""Elliott, Comstock, and Gest"", performing on the roof of the Century Theater at the Grove. She competed in the Miss Los Angeles Beauty contest in 1925, winning, and went on to the Miss America pageant placing second in the competition. The contestants signed promissory contracts for film appearances with the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation upon winning; Dore's was with Universal Pictures for 5 years. Dore returned to Los Angeles where she began acting in silent pictures and two reelers such as "Johnny's Week-End" and "Adam's Eve", before moving on to full feature talkies.
Adrienne Dore | Career
Patricia Benoit was born on February 21, 1927 at Fort Worth, Texas. At the age of 19, she moved to New York City from Fort Worth to study acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. After her graduation in stage acting, she acted in summer stock and Off Broadway Productions for three years.
Patricia Benoit | Early life
Carpenter was born on December 7, 1979, in Louisville, Kentucky, the daughter of Catherine (née Mitchell) and Robert Carpenter. She attended St. Raphael the Archangel and then Sacred Heart Academy. She trained at the Walden Theatre Conservatory program, and later at New York City's Juilliard School (Drama Division "Group 31": 1998–2002). Before graduation, she was cast in the 2002 Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" starring Liam Neeson and Laura Linney.
Jennifer Carpenter | Early life
Darrow was born in Hollywood, California, to George H. Wittlinger, a motion picture landscape artist, and Alice Simpson Wittlinger, a former silent screen actress. She graduated from Hollywood High School.
Barbara Darrow | Early years
Engelbrecht was born in Paris. She is the daughter of the actress Constanze Engelbrecht, and made her acting debut at 12 years old, appearing with her mother in the 1996 TV film "Adieu, mon ami". From 2004 to 2007, she attended Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg.
Julie Engelbrecht | Early life
She subsequently relocated to London, where she enrolled at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, studying voice and dance. Upon finishing her studies, she returned to the United States, settling in Los Angeles, where she met her husband, Richard Hassanein, the founder of United Film Distribution. Reluctant to appear onscreen, King reemerged doing voice acting and ADR work, first for Mel Gibson's "The Man Without a Face", and the Lasse Hallström-directed drama "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?" (both 1993). She continued to provide voice work for numerous Hollywood productions throughout the 1990s, including "Philadelphia" (1993), "The Pelican Brief" (1993), "Wolf" (1994), Cameron Crowe's "Jerry Maguire" (1996), and James Cameron's "Titanic" (1997).
Adrienne King | 1980–2008: "Friday the 13th" and aftermath
Sarah was born in Neuilly sur Seine, France to an Iranian father and French mother. She grew up in France and studied law, Arabic, German and Italian before becoming an actress.
Sarah Kazemy | Early life