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Adrienne Jo Barbeau (born 11 June 1945, Sacramento, California) is an American actress. She voiced Simone Lenoir in Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island.
Biography[]
Adrienne Jo Barbeau is an American actress and author, best known for her roles on the CBS sitcom Maude (1972) and in horror films, especially those directed by John Carpenter, with whom she was once married.
She was born on 11 June 1945 in Sacramento, California, the daughter of an executive for Mobil Oil Company. Early in her career, she starred in Someone's Watching Me! (1978), The Fog (1980) and Escape from New York (1981), all John Carpenter-related projects.
She has collaborated with George A. Romero on occasion, such as Stephen King's anthology Creepshow (1982) and Two Evil Eyes (1990). Her work with other horror directors includes Wes Craven's superhero monster movie Swamp Thing (1982). During the 1990s, she became best known for providing the voice of Catwoman on Batman: The Animated Series (1992). She was the original tough girl Betty Rizzo in the very first Broadway production of "Grease". She is the author of the memoir There Are Worse Things I Can Do (2006), and the comedy romance vampire novels Vampyres of Hollywood (2008), Love Bites (2010) and Make Me Dead (2015).
External Links[]
- Adrienne Barbeau at the Internet Movie Database
- Official site