Adrienne Barbeau

During the shoot of ‘Someone’s Watching Me!’, Adrianne and her director john Carpenter fell in love with each other. Both of them then entered the wedlock in 1979. The couple maintained a low-profile through the course of their marriage, which finally culminated in divorce, shortly after the birth of their son John Cody.

Barbeau remarried in 1992 to producer Billy Van Zandt. The two became really close to each other during the play ‘Drop Dead’.

At the age of 51, Adrienne was blessed with twin sons Walker Steven and William Dalton Van Zandt.

Daughter of Joseph Barbeau, a public relations officer for the American Oil company ‘Mobil Oil’, and a mother of Armenian descent, Adrienne was born in the Sacramento town of California. Adrienne also has a sister by name Jocelyn.

She pursued her primary education at the ‘Del Mar High School’, located in San Jose. After completing high school she went to the Foothill College located in Los Altos Hills, California

Barbeau started her career in career as a go-go dancer In New York City; where she moved in during the late 1960s. Go-go dancers used to dance for entertaining the Army troops and her experience as a dancer was the curtain raiser of her showbiz career.

In 1968, she was hired for the choir which performed in the musical ‘Fiddler on the Roof’. She was later given the role of Hodel in the same play, which had also marked her acting debut earlier.

She next went onto play the leading role in the off-Broadway musical ‘Stag Movie’ in 1971. The character of Cookie Kovac portrayed by Adrienne, established her as a sex symbol in the industry.

Her performance in the 1972 Broadway musical ‘Grease’ in which she played the part of ‘Rizzo’ a resolute girl, helped her received many accolades including a ‘Tony Award’ nomination.

She appeared in the comic sitcom ‘Maude’ in the role of the daughter of the female lead, during the period 1972 to 1978. Bea Arthur, who played the role of her mother in this series, became a good friend of Adrienne, and the friendship blossomed over the years.

Her works in the musical ‘Grease’ and the horror movie ‘Fog’ are considered her best works and established her as genre artist in the industry.