Adrienne began her career in 1963 with the San Jose Civic Light Opera. After graduating high school, she traveled with a musical comedy revue, entertaining our servicemen on Army bases throughout Southeast Asia. In 1965, she moved to New York where she made her Broadway debut as Tevye’s second daughter, Hodel, in Fiddler on the Roof. A Tony nomination and a Theatre World Award 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.

Movie fans know her best for her performances in The Fog, Escape From New York, Creepshow, Swamp Thing, Back to School, and Cannonball Run. She appeared in the Academy Award winning ARGO.  Her recent releases include The Demon Detective and the short film Oddities.

Adrienne has a Golden Globe nomination and over 450 screen performances to her credit. She starred as Ruthie, the Snake Dancer, on HBO’s fascinating series, Carnivale. She was Oswald’s mom on Drew Carey, Victoria Grayson’s mom on Revenge, and Venus’s mom on Sons of Anarchy. Daytime viewers know her as Suzanne Stanwyck on General Hospital. Her recent television appearances include 9-1-1, American Horror Stories, Hustlers Take All for TUBI, two Netflix  series:  A.J. and the Queen and Cowboy Be-bop,  Harlan Coben’s Shelter for Prime, and Duster from J.J. Abrams for HBOMax.

Having starred in over 25 theatrical productions in the U.S. and Canada, Adrienne spent most of 2015 playing Berthe, Pippin’s grandmother, in the National Tour of Pippin, singing “No Time At All” as she hung upside down from a trapeze 15 feet in the air – no net.

Off camera, Adrienne is the voice of Catwoman in Batman, The Animated Series, Ms. Simone in Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island,  Ginny’s Mom in Curious George Go West, Go Wild, and Sally Jupiter in Watchmen.  She can be heard in a myriad of video games: God of War, Halo 4, and Fallout 76 among them. She also provides narration for the visually impaired on many films, documentaries, and television series; it’s one of her favorite forms of voiceover work.

Adrienne is the author of four books: the best-selling memoir There Are Worse Things I Could Do; the urban fantasy Vampyres of Hollywood and its comedy romance sequels, Love Bites and Make Me Dead. She co-authored and edited Grease…Tell Me More, Tell Me More.  

Adrienne just finished filming the horror thriller Oddities, bringing her character from the short to life in a whole new world.

And Pending Release Of Tyler Savage's ODDITIES

With nearly 200 TV and film credits, Adrienne Barbeau is living proof that age does not have to mean a diminishing career. At 80 years of age and proud of it, Adrienne is one of a handful of actresses that refuse to accept the concept that a number determines ones ability to work. "I’ve loved all the work I've done in the past years - Cowboy BeBop for Netflix, Harlan Coben's Shelter for Prime, Duster just this year for HBO Max, some great characters in Sons of Anarchy, Criminal Minds, AJ and the Queen, Grey's Anatomy to name a few.” In addition, Adrienne has had a remarkable career on the boards of Broadway in critically acclaimed productions of “Fiddler on the Roof” (with Bette Midler) and as Rizzo in iconic “Grease.” Of course, Adrienne considered her greatest and most successful productions are her children, who have always come first, while still managing to continue working all these years.

Topics for consideration

  • Her career (starting in 1963) and still going strong
  • Her enviable and various career credits including The Fog, Creepshow, Swamp Thing, Escape From New York, Cannonball Run, Back to School, etc
  • A fan favorite topic, is her role of Carol Traynor in Norman Lear’s hit series, Maude.
  • Appearing as Hodel in the the original cast of “Fiddler on the Roof,” Opposite stage sister Bette Midler.
  • Appearance as Rizzo in the original production of “Grease” on Broadway.
  • Her voiceover work - the video games, cartoons such as Spider-Man, Scooby-Doo, and the iconic Catwoman in The New Batman Adventures.
  • Daytime darling as fan favorite, Suzanne Stanwyck on General Hospital.
  • Her best-selling books: "There Are Worse Things I Could Do," "the Vampyres of Hollywood,” series ("Love Bites" and "Make Me Dead”) and "Grease - Tell Me More, Tell Me More”
  • Her guest appearances on shows such as Murder She Wrote, Quincy, The Love Boat, The Twilight Zone, Hotel, The Wild Wild West, Star Trek, Greys Anatomy, etc
  • being an older mom (had the boys when I was 51, 1997, one of the first women to give birth at that age at that time (only woman on the maternity ward who was a member of AARP).  how having 28 year olds in my life keeps me young
  • Her favorite role of Ruthie on Carnivale
  • The release of Tyler Savage's ODDITIES, with Xander Berkeley and Lovie Simone.
  • Upcoming Horror conventions and comic conventions - 

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