Valerie Perrine
Valerie Perrine was born in Galveston, Texas, United States on September 3rd, 1943 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 80, Valerie Perrine biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Valerie Ritchie Perrine (born September 3, 1943) is a retired American actress and model.
She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in the 1974 film Lenny for her role as Honey Bruce in Lenny.
Superman (1978), The Electric Horseman (1979), and Superman II (1980) are among her other film appearances.
Early life
Perrine was born in Galveston, Texas, as the niece of Winifred "Renee" (nee McGinley), a dancer who appeared in Earl Carroll's Vanities, and Kenneth I. Perrine, a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army. Kenneth I. Perrine was the grandson of Alfred Perrine of Wallkill, N.Y., a descendant of Staten Island Huguenot Daniel Perrine. The Perrine family traces its roots to Perrin, France, which married with other Normans dating back to William the Conqueror in ten66. Her mother was Scottish (of Irish descent) and she was born in Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire.
Perrine lived in several places as the family migrated to different roles due to her father's work.
Personal life
Perrine was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2015 and underwent dental surgery in 2017 to restore her teeth after they became damaged due to the medications she had been taking for her illness.
Career
In Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five (1972), she played soft-core pornography actress Montana Wildhack. In the May 1972 issue of Playboy, Perrine was photographed nude for a pictorial layout, before appearing on the front page in August 1981. During Bruce Jay Friedman's Steambath on Hollywood television on May 4, 1973, she became the first actress to appear nude on American television by exposing her breasts. The program was carried out nationally by just a few PBS stations around the country. She appeared in the episode "When the Girls Came Out to Play" of the romantic anthology television series Love Story (1973).
Perrine was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Actress (Drama) in 1975 and she received the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival for her role as comedian Lenny Bruce's wife, stripper Honey Bruce in Bob Fosse's Lenny (1974).
In the biopic W.C. Fields and Me (1976), she portrayed Carlotta Monti, mistress of W.C. Fields. In Superman (1978), she played Miss Eve Teschmacher, the moll of criminal mastermind Lex Luthor. She was nominated for the 1979 Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress. In Superman II (1980), she reprised her role as Miss Teschmacher.
In The Electric Horseman (1979), Perrine played Charlotta Steele, ex-wife of a rodeo champion portrayed by Robert Redford. Her career began and was uneven after appearing in Can't Stop the Music (1980), for which she was nominated for the Razzie Award for Worst Actress. This film has since become a cult classic. In 1982, she appeared in The Border with Jack Nicholson as Marcy, the wife of a corrupt police officer. She appeared in the failed CBS comedy series Leo & Liz in Beverly Hills with Harvey Korman in 1986.
Perrine has spent time since then in lower-profile roles, though she did play a small supporting role in the 2000 Mel Gibson film What Women Want. Perrine appeared on the television show Homicide: Life on the Street in 1995, portraying Richard Belzer's ex-wife, Detective John Munch.
Valerie, a documentary about Perrine's career and her experience with Parkinson's disease, was produced by Stacey Souther. In 2020, Valerie was screened at the Edmonton Film Festival.