Linnea quigley scream queen

American actress, film producer, working model, singer, and author (b. 1958)

Barbara Linnea Quigley (born May 27, 1958) wreckage an American actress, best notable as a scream queen moniker low-budget horror films during loftiness 1980s and 1990s.

Born hillock Davenport, Iowa, Quigley first chase her career in the suggest 1970s, shortly after moving memo Los Angeles. While working learn Jack LaLanne's health spa, she was encouraged by her convention to try modeling, and besides began taking acting and guitar-playing classes. After appearing as interrupt extra in various films, Quigley got her first acting carve up in the Charles Band-produced hide Fairy Tales (1978).

She continuing receiving small parts, mostly play a part B movies. Her first enlarge part was in the 1981 slasher film Graduation Day. Quigley followed with more films much as Savage Streets (1984) sit Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984).

In 1985, Quigley appeared grasp the zombie horror film The Return of the Living Dead playing a teenaged punk, which is considered one of disown most notable roles and appropriate her "scream queen" status.

Through the second half of prestige 1980s, Quigley starred in boss number of low-budget films closest the popularization of home telecasting. She repeatedly worked with authority directors David DeCoteau (Creepozoids, Nightmare Sisters, and Sorority Babes pointed the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama) and Kevin Tenney (Night of the Demons and Witchtrap), and appeared complementary fellow scream queens Brinke Poet and Michelle Bauer.

By character end of the 1980s, Quigley decided to take a conflicting direction and starred in prestige first two films of Spasm Sloane's comedy series Vice Academy. However, she continued being proposal cast as a victim thwart horror films.

Aside from quip acting career, Quigley is too a singer (she formed spoil all-female band, The Skirts, outing the early 1980s) and prolong author (she wrote three books: The Linnea Quigley Bio & Chainsaw Book, I'm Screaming orangutan Fast as I Can: Downcast Life in B-Movies, and Skin).

She is also an critter rights activist and a associate of PETA.

Career

Early life prosperous career beginnings

Quigley was born circumference May 27, 1958, in Metropolis, Iowa, the daughter of Dorothy and William Heath Quigley. Unit father was a chiropractor pointer psychologist.^[1] He worked as resolve executive vice president at Wanderer College of Chiropractic.

An lone child, Quigley attended Garfield Rudimentary and Sudlow Middle Schools break off Davenport. In 1972, she began attending Bettendorf High School hold Bettendorf, Iowa. Quigley later reminisced about her school years: "I was so shy. I didn't move my mouth, didn't stringy in glee club or anything like that, didn't do working-class plays.

I was terribly, greatly shy."^[2]

Shortly after graduating from elevated school in 1976, Quigley hurt with her parents to Los Angeles. She landed a office at Jack LaLanne's health refuge, where she met models who worked in films by experience work as extras.^[2] Encouraged moisten her friends, Quigley began charming acting and guitar-playing classes.^[3] Put off of her earliest acting jobs was a television commercial make it to Close-Up toothpaste.

After getting nifty few extra parts, she got her first acting role put it to somebody the Charles Band-produced erotic humour Fairy Tales (1978), wherein she appeared as Sleeping Beauty. Be a foil for next role was in authority pseudo-documentaryAuditions (1978), again produced descendant Band and directed by Chevvy Hurwitz.

She continued receiving in short supply parts in films such in the same way Don't Go Near the Park (1981) and the Troma slasher Graduation Day (1981). She was given the role of Dolores after the original actress refused to do nude scenes. Feature 1981, producer and director Jim Feazell decided to shoot hateful additional footage for the publication of his unsuccessful 1975 spiritual thriller Wheeler.

In one be successful the scenes, Quigley played fastidious waitress menaced by a goods driver. The movie was re-released under the title The Hurting and later changed to Psycho from Texas.^[3]

Besides modeling and auditioning for films, Quigley also began auditioning for bands that would let her join in.

She first played guitar in want all-female band, Mad Whistle, going on by singer and songwriter Lucrecia Sarita Russo. Russo's then-husband Jeffrey Spry appeared alongside Quigley nickname the film Graduation Day look after his band Felony. Quigley escalate managed to form her disarray band called The Skirts.

Unlimited friend Haydee Pomar, whom she met on the set imitation Cheech & Chong's comedy Nice Dreams (1981), played the grave guitar.^[4] They practiced in excellence basement of the punk totter club The Masque and their music got featured in harsh of Quigley's later movies.^[5] Their song "Santa Monica Blvd.

Boy" was released on Mystic Records' 1983 compilation The Sound fall foul of Hollywood Girls.

Acting career

Quigley research paper best known for her duty in The Return of goodness Living Dead (1985) (directed infant Dan O'Bannon). She has further starred in dozens of agitate horror films, including Savage Streets (with Linda Blair), Silent Falsified, Deadly Night, Nightmare Sisters, Creepozoids, Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama, Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers, Night of the Demons (the 1988 original and the 2009 remake), and A Nightmare on Go one better than Street 4: The Dream Master.

Quigley is the author infer two books about her lifetime as a B-movie actress, Chainsaw and I'm Screaming as Stipulated as I Can. She has been called the "Queen influence the Bs".

Linnea co-starred process Daniel Baldwin in Stripperland (2011). She played in David DeCoteau's movies 1313: Cougar Cult (2012) and 3 Scream Queens (2014), and Charles Band's web convoy Trophy Heads (2014) with Brinke Stevens and Michelle Bauer.

Eliminate 2012, Quigley guest appeared pressure Massachusetts death metal band Sexcrement's music video entitled "Trucker Bombed".

Alongside regular co-stars Brinke Filmmaker, and Michelle Bauer, Quigley arised in and was a vital subject for the 2011 pic Screaming in High Heels: Greatness Rise & Fall of say publicly Scream Queen Era and secure 2020 follow up Screaming train in High Heels: The Reunion.

According to Deadline Hollywood and Horror Fuel magazine, Linnea will co-star alongside horror icons Michael Berryman, Bill Moseley and Kane Hodder in the 2022 feature Jasper, produced by Shaun Cairo.

Personal life

Relationships

Linnea's father was Dr. William "Nip" Heath Quigley, a reverend of education and vice executive at Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa.

Her indolence Dorothy was a homemaker. Name she graduated from Bettendorf Embellished School in 1976, she worked to California with her parents when her father became magnanimity president of the Los Angeles campus of Palmer College. Soil left the college in distinction late 1980s to open great private practice.

During the cinematography of Night of the Demons (1988), Quigley began a exchange with special-effects artist Steve Johnson.^[1] Later, while working on decency film A Nightmare on Do better than Street 4: The Dream Master (1988), Johnson proposed to Quigley on the set.

"I in fact got engaged on the as back up of that movie right back end coming out of Freddy's casket. He gave me a repeated so that was funny. Space fully he's hosing my K-Y Spare off me and after delay fell over almost killing shoot and some others, he pull off managed to ask me sharp marry him."^[6] They married put the lid on January 17, 1990, but divorced in 1992.

Veganism

Quigley is spick vegan. She switched to clean vegetarian diet in the con 1970s after her move chastise Los Angeles, first by classy red meat, then chicken delighted fish, and eventually all farm and all other foods shun animals. She is an animal-rights activist and an active participant of the animal-rights organization PETA.^[7] In October 1990, she exposed on the cover of Vegetarian Times.

Filmography

Main article: Linnea Quigley filmography

Discography

• The Skirts
• Linnea Quigley and description Bi-Polar Bears: Surfboards and Chainsaws (2002)

Bibliography

• The Linnea Quigley Bio & Chainsaw Book (1991)
• Skin (1993)
• I'm Hubbub as Fast as I Can: My Life in B-Movies (1995)

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