Debbie Rochon Explained

Debbie Rochon
Birth Date:3 November 1968[1]
Birth Place:Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Occupation:Actress
Years Active:1982–present

Debbie Ann Rochon (born November 3, 1968) is a Canadian actress and former stage performer, best known for her work in independent horror films and counterculture films.

Early life

When Rochon was ten years old, her parents were deemed unfit to raise her, and she was remanded to foster care. Shuttled from one foster home to the next, Rochon ran away to Vancouver. When she was 14 and homeless, she was violently robbed by a homeless man, who assaulted her with a knife and slashed her upper right arm, leaving her with a large vertical scar.

Career

In 1982, when she was 14, Rochon was cast as a rock-concert extra in Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains after being alerted to an open-casting call by another homeless youth. She worked for three months and earned $300 cash a week. That experience made her fall in love with filmmaking and acting. By age 17, she had saved enough money to move to New York City. Rochon worked with off-off-Broadway theater companies, performing in over 25 stage productions. She garnered her first printed review in Backstage which read: "Debbie Rochon acquitted herself well as the cocaloony bird in Tennessee Williams' The Gnadiges Fraulein."

Rochon then focused on the cinema. Her first substantial role was in Banned, a 1989 film director by Roberta Findlay. She then went on to appear in over two hundred independent features. The Hubcap Awards founder Joe Bob Briggs crowned Rochon as runner-up Best Actress of the year in 1994 for her work on Abducted II: The Reunion. In 1995, she was recognized for her work as the conniving, television producer in Broadcast Bombshells, winning the Barbarella Award.

She was a featured guest player on Fox's New York Undercover. In 2002, Rochon was crowned Scream Queen of the Decade (1990–1999) by Draculina magazine, based on reader voting. She also received Best Psychette Award 2002 (Best Female Psycho in a Movie) for her work in . She has won over a dozen more awards for her film work.

In 2003, while working on an unreleased film in Tennessee, Rochon suffered an accident with a prop machete which resulted in the near-severing of the four fingers of her right hand.[2] After extensive surgery and physical therapy, she regained limited use of the hand.

In 2004, Rochon won MicroCinemaFest's "Best Comedy Actress" award for her work in Dr. Horror's Erotic House of Idiots.She also co-hosted the 2005 Village Halloween Parade with Dee Snider. The following year, she and Snider began broadcasting Fangoria Radio on Sirius Satellite Radio, a weekly talk show of horror movie news and reviews. The show ran from 2006 till 2010. She appears regularly at Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors conventions and others.

In 2008, Rochon appeared in several new horror ventures, including the Michigan-made film Dog, Savaged, The Colour from the Dark, Psychosomatika, and Beg. She can also be seen in the After Dark-released film Mulberry Street, directed by Jim Mickle, which had a theatrical run as part of the Horrorfest series in 2007.

Rochon is featured as a character in the 2008 novel Bad Moon Rising by Jonathan Maberry. She is one of several real-world horror celebrities who are in the fictional town of Pine Deep when monsters attack. Other celebrities include Tom Savini, Jim O'Rear, Brinke Stevens, Ken Foree, Stephen Susco, Joe Bob Briggs, James Gunn, and Mem Shannon.[3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

She appeared in a 2009 documentary .[8] Also in 2009, she starred as Alice in Slime City Massacre, a sequel to the cult film Slime City; both films were directed by Gregory Lamberson.[9] She presented the movie on the Premiere at 2010 Beloit International Film Festival on February 18, 2010.[10]

Rochon appeared in a feature film by Sean Pomper Productions, Killer Hoo-Ha!.[11]

She portrayed Madam Won Ton in the 2011 horror comedy film Won Ton Baby! by James Morgart.[12]

Rochon served as a model for the esteemed illustrator Dave Stevens and appeared in his final work, a book titled Brush with Passion: The Art and Life of Dave Stevens.

She portrayed Eleanor of Aquitaine in the 2014 film Richard the Lionheart: Rebellion.

In 2015, she was nominated for a Rondo Hatton Award for her column "Diary of the Deb" in the Fangoria magazine.[13]

Breaking Glass Pictures released the feature film Dollface in September 2015, in which Rochon stars as a foul-mouthed groundskeeper. She was praised for her performance in Dollface, which won numerous awards in 2014/2015 including Horror Society's "Best Indie Horror Film of 2014".Also in 2015, she made her directorial debut with the horror thriller film Model Hunger.[14]

One of Rochon's most critically acclaimed titles is the Italian-made H. P. Lovecraft-based film Colour from the Dark, in which she plays the possessed wife of a farmer in a wartorn area in 1943.

Rochon resides in New York City and works for the horror magazine Fangoria.

Entertainment Tonight listed Rochon as one of "The Top 40 Scream Queens of the Past 40 Years" on October 17, 2018. [15]

Playboy Ranks The 50 Sexiest Scream Queens Of All Time; Debbie Rochon ranked #8 [16]

Model acting

Rochon has appeared on many film-related magazine covers including:

Rochon has written for numerous genre publications including:

As well as a regular column in The Joe Bob Report (published by Joe Bob Briggs)

Selected filmography

Awards

External links

Notes and References

  1. Apparently actress-provided information on IMDB page, linked from official page and Facebook official fanpage; retrieved January 26, 2014.
  2. Web site: Cultflicks.net . CultFlicks Interview with Queen-B Debbie Rochon . August 2008 . mpg4 . October 21, 2008.
  3. http://blogcritics.org/books/article/interview-with-jonathan-maberry-part-two BC Books Interviews Author Jonathan Maberry
  4. Maberry, Jonathan. "Bad Moon Rising". Pinnacle Press, 2005.
  5. http://www.horrorchronicles.com/babes-of-blood/babes-of-blood-debbie-rochon.html Horror Chronicles Features Debbie Rochon
  6. https://web.archive.org/web/20131005014714/http://www.mtv.com/artists/tom-savini/ MTV Artist Focus On Tom Savini
  7. http://horrorunlimited.blogspot.com/2013/01/debbie-rochon-to-be-honored-with-ingrid.html Horror Unlimited Ingrid Pitt Award - Debbie Rochon
  8. Web site: FANGORIA presents two Universal Horror Nights haunted houses! . Fangoria .
  9. Web site: New SLIME CITY MASSACRE character posters . Fangoria . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20091115173408/http://www.fangoria.com/home/indie-frights/4551-new-slime-city-massacre-character-posters . November 15, 2009 .
  10. Web site: Slime City Massacre Lands a Premiere Date. June 19, 2012 . DreadCentral.
  11. Web site: Today on the Howard 100 News . December 9, 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20091209090740/http://www.howardstern.com/archive.hs?h=493 . December 9, 2009 .
  12. Web site: Won Ton Baby: New Behind-the-Scenes Stills, One Sheet, and Trailer. July 27, 2012 . DreadCentral.
  13. Web site: The 2015 Rondo Hatton Award Nominations Announced . March 3, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150402111244/http://www.fangoria.com/new/the-2015-rondo-hatton-award-nominations-announced/ . April 2, 2015 . dead .
  14. Web site: Debbie Rochon's Directorial Debut "MODEL HUNGER" . March 9, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150402110938/http://www.fangoria.com/new/exclusive-teaser-stills-debbie-rochons-directorial-debut-model-hunger/ . April 2, 2015 . dead .
  15. Web site: 2018-10-17 . The Top 40 Scream Queens of the Past 40 Years Entertainment Tonight . 2023-08-11 . www.etonline.com . en-US.
  16. Web site: 2014-10-16 . Playboy Ranks the Sexiest Scream Queens of All Time: Monique Dupree, Debbie Rochon, Tiffany Shepis Make List! . 2023-08-11 . Horror Society . en-US.
  17. http://horrorgenre.com/Film_Press_Releases.php Horror Genre - Film Press Release: Cottonmouth
  18. Web site: AFM '09: 'Walking Distance' Renamed to 'Experimental Activity'. November 4, 2009 . BloodyDisgusting.
  19. Web site: Four Character Sheets from Slime City Massacre. June 11, 2012 . DreadCentral.
  20. http://www.debbierochon.com/bio.htm Official Biography

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