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Shannon Tweed
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| Shannon Tweed | |
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 Shannon Tweed at the 2nd Annual Night of 1000 Stars. Ritual Supper Club, Hollywood, California |
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| Playboy centerfold appearance | |
| November 1981 | |
| Preceded by | Kelly Tough |
| Succeeded by | Patricia Farinelli |
| Playmate of the Year | |
| 1982 | |
| Preceded by | Terri Welles |
| Succeeded by | Marianne Gravatte |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Shannon Lee Tweed 10 March 1957 St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada1 |
| Measurements | Bust: 36 in (91 cm)1 Waist: 25 in (64 cm) Hips: 36 in (91 cm) |
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)1 |
| Weight | 128 lb (58 kg; 9.1 st)1 |
Shannon Lee Tweed (born 10 March 1957)1 is a Canadian actress and model. One of the most successful actresses of mainstream erotica,2 she is identified with the genre of the erotic thriller.
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Early life
Tweed was born in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, to a mink rancher father. She was raised in Whitbourne, Newfoundland and Labrador, on a mink ranch. She has six siblings. Tweed graduated from Mount Royal Collegiate in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and later she became involved in beauty pageants at an early age. In 1977 she was crowned Miss Ottawa Valley and eventually went on to place 4th at the Miss Canada Pageant. She also won the talent award at the national pageant singing Olivia Newton-John's "I Honestly Love You."
Career
After the Canadian wish-fulfillment TV series Thrill of a Lifetime arranged for her to pose for Hugh Hefner's Playboy, she was chosen to be the Playmate of the Month for the November 1981 issue and eventually the Playmate of the Year for 1982. Since then, Tweed has primarily acted in TV series such as the HBO comedy 1st and Ten, the prime-time soap opera Falcon Crest and guest appearances on Frasier, as well as B movies. Tweed also appeared in an episode of The Dukes of Hazzard in the seventh and final season. In 1985, she landed a role on Days of our Lives as Savannah Wilder. She remained with the show until 1987.
Her first major theatrical film appearance was in the teen sex comedy Hot Dog... The Movie in 1984. Since then, Tweed has appeared in over 60 films, including Detroit Rock City, produced by Gene Simmons in 1999.
She occasionally acts with her younger sister, Tracy Tweed, and has also appeared in Playboy photo spreads.
In 2006 Tweed authored an autobiography, Kiss and Tell, published by Phoenix Press.3
Personal life
After a brief relationship with Hugh Hefner (which coincided with her Playmate appearances and being named 1982 Playmate of the Year), Tweed has lived with Gene Simmons of KISS since 1985. Their two children are Nicholas (born 22 January 1989) and Sophie (born 7 July 1992). The family members currently star in a reality television show on A&E entitled Gene Simmons Family Jewels4. She also has a younger sister, Tracy (born 10 May 1965), who is an actress. They shared the screen in the film Night Eyes 3, both have appeared nude together in a Playboy spread and Tracy occasionally makes appearances on Family Jewels.
Selected filmography
- Of Unknown Origin (1983)
- Hot Dog…The Movie (1984)
- The Surrogate (1984)
- Meatballs III: Summer Job (1986)
- Steele Justice (1987)
- Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death (1988)
- Last Call (1991)
- In the Cold of the Night (1991)
- The Naked Truth (1992)
- Night Eyes 2 (1992)
- Cold Sweat (1993)
- Night Eyes 3 (1993)
- Indecent Behavior (1993)
- No Contest (1994)
- Possessed by the Night (1994)
- Scorned (1994)
- Hard Vice (1994)
- Night Fire (1994)
- Indecent Behavior 2 (1994)
- The Dark Dancer (1995)
- Victim of Desire (1995)
- Illicit Dreams (1995)
- Body Chemistry 4: Full Exposure (1995)
- Indecent Behavior 3 (1995)
- Stormy Nights (1996)
- Electra (1996)
- White Cargo (1996)
- Human Desires (1997) as Alicia Royale
- Shadow Warriors: Assault on Devil's Island (1997)
- Bimbo Bash Movie (1997)
- Dead by Dawn (1998)
- Forbidden Sins (1998)
- Naked Lies (1998)
- No Contest II (1998)
- Powerplay (1999)
- Detroit Rock City (1999)
- The Rowdy Girls (2000)
- Dead Sexy (2001)
Selected TV appearances
- Baywatch Hawaii (episode "If Looks Could Kill", 1991)
- Married… with Children (episode "The Two That Got Away", 1995)
- Frasier (episodes "You Scratch My Book...", 1995; and "Don Juan in Hell: Part 2", 2001)
- Dear John (1989)
- Murder She Wrote (episode "Twice Dead", 1995)
- Gene Simmons Family Jewels (All Episodes, 2007- 2009)
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e "Playmate listing at uChicago". http://mozart.lib.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/nand/search/pmstat?browse=%3A%3ACONFIG%3A%3Adatebrowse&key=1981&limit=0. Retrieved March 15, 2009.
- ^ Green, Phillip. Cracks in the Pedestal: Ideology and Gender in Hollywood. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998: 170
- ^ The State | Life & Style
- ^ A&E's Gene Simmons Family Jewels website
External links
- Shannon Tweed at the Internet Movie Database
- Shannon Tweed at Playboy.com
- AskMen.com: Shannon Tweed
- SKI magazine - Where are they now? - Shannon Tweed - Jan-2009 - p.83
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