Valerie Perrine

Valerie Perrine
Perrine in Amsterdam on August 26, 1975
Born Valerie Ritchie Perrine
(1943-09-03) September 3, 1943
Galveston, Texas, U.S.
Occupation Actress & Model
Years active 1971–2017
Website valerieperrine.com

Valerie Ritchie Perrine (born September 3, 1943) is an retired American actress and model. For her role as Honey Bruce in the 1974 film Lenny, she won the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles, the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her other film appearances include Superman (1978), The Electric Horseman (1979), and Superman II (1980).

Career

Perrine began her career as a Las Vegas showgirl. She played soft-core pornography actress Montana Wildhack in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five (1972). Perrine was photographed for a pictorial layout in the May 1972 issue of Playboy, later appearing on the cover in August 1981. She then became the first actress to purposely display herself nude on American television by completely baring her breasts during the May 4, 1973, PBS broadcast of Bruce Jay Friedman's Steambath on Hollywood Television Theater. (She was seen taking a shower from the side totally undressed.) Only a few PBS stations nationwide carried the program. Later in 1973, she appeared in the episode "When the Girls Came Out to Play" of the romantic anthology television series Love Story (1973).

In 1975, Perrine was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Actress (Drama) and won 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).

She was Carlotta Monti in the biopic W.C. Fields and Me (1976). She played Miss Eve Teschmacher, moll of criminal mastermind Lex Luthor, in Superman (1978). For this role, she was nominated for the 1979 Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress. She reprised her role as Miss Teschmacher in Superman II (1980).

Perrine played Charlotta Steele, ex-wife of a rodeo champion played by Robert Redford, in The Electric Horseman (1979). Her career grew uneven after an appearance in Can't Stop the Music (1980), for which she was nominated for a Razzie Award for Worst Actress. This film has since become a cult classic. In 1982, she played the role of Marcy, the wife of a corrupt police officer, in The Border with Jack Nicholson. In the years since then, Perrine has worked in lower-profile projects, although she did have a small supporting role in the 2000 Mel Gibson film What Women Want. In 1995, Perrine made a guest appearance on the series Homicide: Life on the Street, playing an ex-wife of Richard Belzer's Detective John Munch.

Filmography

Film
Year Title Role Notes
1972 Slaughterhouse-Five Montana Wildhack
1973 The Last American Hero Marge Dennison, Morley's Secretary a.k.a. Hard Driver (USA: reissue title)
1974 Lenny Honey Bruce BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles
Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award
National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actress
Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
1976 W.C. Fields and Me Carlotta Monti
1977 Mr. Billion Rosie Jones a.k.a. The Windfall
1978 Superman Eve Teschmacher Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress
1979 The Magician of Lublin Zeftel
1979 The Electric Horseman Charlotta Steele
1980 Agency Brenda Wilcox a.k.a. Mind Games (video title)
1980 Can't Stop the Music Samantha Simpson
1980 Superman II Eve Teschmacher
1981 The Cannonball Run Traffic Cop Pulling Over Lamborghini Babes (uncredited)
1982 The Border Marcy
1982 Faerie Tale Theatre: The Three Little Pigs Tina
1983 Malibu Dee Staufer TV miniseries
1983 When Your Lover Leaves Ronda Thompson TV movie
1985 Mask of Murder Maria
1985 Water Pamela Weintraub a.k.a. The Investigator
1987 Maid to Order Georgette Starkey
1991 Reflections in a Dark Sky Caterina
1991 Bright Angel Aileen
1993 Boiling Point Mona
1995 Girl in the Cadillac Tilly
1995 The Break Delores Smith
1998 Brown's Requiem Marguerita Hansen
1998 A Place Called Truth Estelle
1998 Shame, Shame, Shame Maura's Mother
1998 54 Elaine's Patron a.k.a. Fifty-Four
1998 My Girlfriend's Boyfriend Rita Lindross
1999 Picture This
1999 Curtain Call Monica Gilroy (uncredited)
2000 What Women Want Margo
2001 Directing Eddie Gloria Vassick a.k.a. Project: Indie (USA)
2002 The End of the Bar Mrs. Duncan
2005 The Moguls V a.k.a. The Amateurs (USA: new title)
2005 The Californians Lenora Tripp
2008 Redirecting Eddie Gloria Vassick
2011 Lights Out Mae
2016 Silver Skies Ethel

Personal life

Perrine was born in Galveston, Texas, the daughter of Winifred "Renee" (née McGinley), a dancer who appeared in Earl Carroll's Vanities, and Kenneth Perrine, a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army.[1] Her mother was Scottish (of Irish descent), from Helensburgh in Dunbartonshire.[2] Owing to her father's career, Perrine lived in many locations as the family moved to different posts.

Now retired, Perrine has Parkinson's disease.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Valerie Perrine Biography (1943–)". FilmReference.com. NetIndustries, LLC. Retrieved 2010-09-07.
  2. ↑ Staff, Variety (24 January 2001). "Winifred 'Renee' Perrine".
  3. ↑ Valerie Perrine on Inside Edition video, published on YouTube Dec. 13, 2017
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