This person was born on the 22 nd November 1958 in Los Angeles. Growing up she had quite a rough childhood with her parents divorcing when she was only 3 years old, then later she ended up being moved to 2 different high schools before ending up at Connecticut Prep School. Even from a young age she had the acting bug but it had to wait as her mother insisted she went to University. So trying to appease her mother she went to University of the Pacific, but only lasting 1 semester she quit and went looking for work. She did manage to land some guest appearances in shows such as The Love Boat , Quincy and Charlies Angels

In 1977 she managed to get her first recurring role as Lt Barbara Duran in Operation Petticoat . Then in 1978 she got her big screen debut when she played the character Of Laurie Strode .

Some Of her Other Less Well Know roles Include

  Judith 'Jude' Madigan , Megan Turner and Private Rita Jennings

Although the early 80's saw her career take an exciting turn for the better, her personal life was less than perfect, she had begun experimenting with cocaine which had become a mutual past time with her biological father, she eventually kicked the habit and helped her father do the same.

Some more of the film roles she portrayed were Elizabeth Solley -The Fog, Kim Hammond -Prom Night, Michelle Jamison -Money on the Side and Willa Wetson -Fierce Creatures.

he Also Supplied The voice Of Queen Camilla in the 2001 movie Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer & the Island Of Misfit Toys , Which Was Probably Not One Of Her best Career Moves

She is the Daughter of a very famous actress mother , who is in fact the victim in the infamous shower scene from the classic horror movie psycho.

She was also known by the nick name “The Scream Queen”. But probably her most memorable role which she did win a Golden Globe for was as Helen Tasker ,this is when she had to do a striptease/dance for Arnold Schwarzeneggers character Harry Tasker In The movie True Lies