Laurene Landon

Laurene Landon
Laurene Landon (2008)
Born	Laurene Landon Coughlin Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Years active	(1979-present)
Website
http://www.laurenelandon.biz

Laurene Landon (AKA as Laurene Landon Coughlin) is an American film and television actress. Laurene first began appearing in movies in the eighties. She is best known for her roles in Maniac Cop 1 and 2, Hundra, Airplane 2 The Sequel,and All The Marbles with Peter Falk. She is half Irish and half Polish and describes herself as being "Bi-Polish".

Biography

Early life

Landon was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and moved to California with her parents at the age of four. As a young woman she entered California State University and began training in their police academy program, but decided that law enforcement was not for her when she came to the realization that she may someday have to use a gun.^[1] So she decided to try her hand at acting and began her career as an extra in films. Recently, she starred opposite George Lazenby (James Bond—On Her Majesty's Secret Service) in HUNTER, plays Detective Higgens in SAMURAI COP;DEADLY VENGEANCE, and had a supporting role in the Melanie Griffith/Alexia Landeau feature film DAY OUT OUT OF DAYS directed by Zoe Cassavettes. She also just completed SKY starring opposite Diane Kruger, and Norman Reedus, She is currently filming FUTURE PUNKS, a hilarious retro-comedy along with a starring role in SYNDICATE SMASHERS opposite Mel Novak.

Acting career

Landon began acting in a bit part in 1979's Bitter Heritage, also released as Naked in My Grave. She was cast as a featured skater in Roller Boogie in that same year.

She gained a small role in 1981's Full Moon High, her first of many collaborations with director Larry Cohen. Landon had spent part of her early career as a model and in 1980 was a runner-up in the Miss Black Velvet pageant in Las Vegas, Nevada.

While there, a casting director told her to go see another casting director in Los Angeles (Rueben Cannon), regarding a feature film called ...All the Marbles. As she found modeling boring and was unable to sit still for hours at a time, she took his suggestion. She starred as Molly in ...All the Marbles, a film starring Peter Falk that had an alternate title, The California Dolls. She described this as her most satisfying role. She was chosen as one of the final four women for the role and was required to undergo rigorous training at a professional wrestling school. Even though she broke her foot during the last match of the tryouts, she and Vicki Frederick won their parts over 2,000 other young actresses trying out, including one young actress named Kathleen Turner. The successful film was the last directing effort by Robert Aldrich (whom she famously referred to as Robert Altman upon meeting him for the first time).

Landon went on to play Velda, right-hand woman to private eye Mike Hammer, in the 1982 film I, the Jury. She appeared as a stewardess in Airplane II: The Sequel. She is also known for appearing in Sci-Fi and fantasy films such as Hundra, Yellow Hair and the Fortress of Gold and Maniac Cop. According to friends, her sense of humor is unparalleled.

Recent success

Off movie screens since 1990, the 5' 9" Landon returned to film acting in 2005 appearing as "Birdy" in the television movie Masters of Horror: Pick Me Up, directed by Larry Cohen, and in the films Stand Up and Knife to a Gunfight. In August 2008 she was slated to begin filming Alien Vampz, for Monolith Pictures, playing a major role as Assistant U.S. Attorney Theresa Van Helsung, of the ancient and eccentric vampire-hunting Van Helsung family. She has been offered subsequent roles in two other film projects for Monolith, including Alien Vampz 2, the sequel to the first film (2009). Sometimes credited as Laureen Landon, one of the roles in the offering from Monolith Pictures is a funny divorcee in a raucous comedy named Strap-Off which was scheduled to be filmed in the latter part of 2008.

Personal life

Landon is single and never married, citing "Never met a man who wanted to follow me around with a mop and a can of Lysol the rest of his life-I'm a serial slob." She is still active in Hollywood as an actress, rescues pit bulls, and is also an award winning lyricist authoring rap music for the L.A. Metro Transit Authority video and a new song being played often on KROQ called "Captivity". She also enjoys writing screenplays in her spare time.

Filmography and television

Year	Film/TV Show	Role	Other notes
2014 Hunter Major Sintel		Bette
2014	Day Out Of Days	Anne Malone	Post-Production	2014	Hunter	Major Sintel	2008	Alien Vampz	Theresa Van Helsung	Pre-production
2008	Knife to a Gunfight	Barry
2007	Stand Up	Hippie Woman
2005	Masters of Horror : Pick Me Up	Birdy
1990	The Ambulance	Patty
1990	Maniac Cop 2	Teresa Mallory
1989	Wicked Stepmother	Vanilla
1989	A Hollywood Story	Guest Star
1988	Maniac Cop	Teresa Mallory
1987	It's Alive III: Island of the Alive	Sally
1986	Armed Response	Deborah Silverstein
1986	America 3000	Vena
1985	The Stuff	Cameo appearance in "Stuff" commercial
1984	Yellow Hair and the Fortress of Gold	Yellow Hair
1983	Hundra	Hundra
1982	Airplane II: The Sequel	Testa, Shuttle Stewardess
1982	I, the Jury	Velda
1981	...All the Marbles	Molly	aka The California Dolls
1981	Full Moon High	Blondie
1979	Roller Boogie	Featured Skater
1979	Scoring	Marsha
1979	Bitter Heritage	aka Naked in My Grave

References

↑ http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2006/03/07/1798725.html Laurene Landon Spills All The Marbles