ADRIENNE BARBEAU
Adrienne began performing in 1963 with the San Jose Civic Light
Opera and by 1965, she had already entertained our servicemen on
army bases throughout South East Asia and was on her way to New York
where she made her Broadway debut as Tevye's second daughter, Hodel,
in Fiddler on the Roof. A Tony nomination for her creation of Rizzo
in the original Broadway production of Grease led her back to
California and the role of Bea Arthur's daughter, Carol, in the hit
series Maude.
Since then she has become a best selling author, a recording artist,
and the star of numerous features, films for television, concert
performances, musicals and plays.
Genre film fans know her best for her performances in The Fog,
Escape From New York, Creepshow, Swamp Thing, Back to School and
Cannonball Run.
Her many films for television include the Ace Award winning Double
Crossed: The Barry Seal Story opposite Dennis Hopper and Scott
Turow's Burden of Proof with Hector Elizondo. Lifetime Network
audiences can see her in the oft-repeated Shattered Hearts and Drew
Carey fans know her as Oswald's mom. She starred as Ruthie, the
Snake Dancer, on HBO's fascinating series, Carnivale.
Adrienne has starred in over 25 musicals and plays, among them Pump
Boys & Dinettes; Women Behind Bars; Kander and Ebb's And the World
Goes Round; The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas; Love Letters; the
West coast premieres of A Walk on the Wild Side and Drop Dead; the
Canadian premiere of Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers; and the world
premiere of What the Rabbi Saw by Billy Van Zandt and Jane Milmore.
Most recently she returned to Off-Broadway and standing ovations as
Judy Garland in The Property Known As Garland.
Off camera, Adrienne is the voice of Catwoman in Batman, The
Animated Series, Ms. Simone in Scooby-Do on Zombie Island, and
Scooter's Mom in the 3-D animated film Fly Me To The Moon,
premiering in August, 2008. The feature film Reach For Me, in which
she stars with Seymour Cassell, Alfre Woodard, and LeVar Burton, is
awaiting release. At present, she is filming WarWolves for the SciFi
Network.
Adrienne's memoir There Are Worse Things I Could Do (Carroll and
Graf Publishers) is an L.A. Times best seller. Her first novel,
Vampyres of Hollywood, which she co-authored with Michael Scott for
St. Martin's Press, comes out in August, 2008. She is currently at
work on the sequel.
In March of 1997, Adrienne gave birth to identical twin boys making
her "the only woman on the maternity ward that was a member of
AARP". She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Billy Van Zandt,
the twins, William and Walker, and her older son, Cody.
Adrienne began performing in 1963 with the San Jose Civic Light
Opera and by 1965, she had already entertained our servicemen on
army bases throughout South East Asia and was on her way to New York
where she made her Broadway debut as Tevye's second daughter, Hodel,
in Fiddler on the Roof. A Tony nomination for her creation of Rizzo
in the original Broadway production of Grease led her back to
California and the role of Bea Arthur's daughter, Carol, in the hit
series Maude.
Since then she has become a best selling author, a recording artist,
and the star of numerous features, films for television, concert
performances, musicals and plays.
Genre film fans know her best for her performances in The Fog,
Escape From New York, Creepshow, Swamp Thing, Back to School and
Cannonball Run.
Her many films for television include the Ace Award winning Double
Crossed: The Barry Seal Story opposite Dennis Hopper and Scott
Turow's Burden of Proof with Hector Elizondo. Lifetime Network
audiences can see her in the oft-repeated Shattered Hearts and Drew
Carey fans know her as Oswald's mom. She starred as Ruthie, the
Snake Dancer, on HBO's fascinating series, Carnivale.
Adrienne has starred in over 25 musicals and plays, among them Pump
Boys & Dinettes; Women Behind Bars; Kander and Ebb's And the World
Goes Round; The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas; Love Letters; the
West coast premieres of A Walk on the Wild Side and Drop Dead; the
Canadian premiere of Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers; and the world
premiere of What the Rabbi Saw by Billy Van Zandt and Jane Milmore.
Most recently she returned to Off-Broadway and standing ovations as
Judy Garland in The Property Known As Garland.
Off camera, Adrienne is the voice of Catwoman in Batman, The
Animated Series, Ms. Simone in Scooby-Do on Zombie Island, and
Scooter's Mom in the 3-D animated film Fly Me To The Moon,
premiering in August, 2008. The feature film Reach For Me, in which
she stars with Seymour Cassell, Alfre Woodard, and LeVar Burton, is
awaiting release. At present, she is filming WarWolves for the SciFi
Network.
Adrienne's memoir There Are Worse Things I Could Do (Carroll and
Graf Publishers) is an L.A. Times best seller. Her first novel,
Vampyres of Hollywood, which she co-authored with Michael Scott for
St. Martin's Press, comes out in August, 2008. She is currently at
work on the sequel.
In March of 1997, Adrienne gave birth to identical twin boys making
her "the only woman on the maternity ward that was a member of
AARP". She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Billy Van Zandt,
the twins, William and Walker, and her older son, Cody.