Debbie Rochon

Debbie Rochon
Born (1968-11-03) November 3, 1968
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Nationality Canadian
Occupation Actress, former stage performer
Years active 1982–present

Debbie Ann Rochon (born November 3, 1968 in Vancouver, British Columbia)[1] is a Canadian actress and former stage performer, best known for her work in independent horror films and counter-culture films.

Biography

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 Rochon with a large vertical scar.

In 1981, after being alerted to an open casting call by another homeless youth, Rochon was cast as a rock concert extra in Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains. 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 and worked on over two hundred independent features. The Hubcap Awards founder Joe Bob Briggs crowned Rochon 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 American Nightmare. She has won over a dozen more awards for her film work.

Rochon is perhaps best known for her work with Troma Entertainment. First appearing as Edna Purlmutte for the satirical The Troma System, she went on to appear in Tromeo and Juliet, Terror Firmer, Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV and episodes of Troma's Edge TV. In November 2006, Troma released Debbie Rochon Confidential featuring previously unreleased footage from Rochon's years with Troma.

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 has 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 resides in New York City and works for the horror magazines Fangoria "((Phantom of the Movies' Videoscope magazine))" and ((Tenebre Magazine)).

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.

She appeared in a 2009 documentary Pretty Bloody: The Women of Horror.[3]

In 2009, Rochon starred as Alice in Slime City Massacre, a sequel to the cult film Slime City; both films were directed by Gregory Lamberson.[4] She presented the movie on the Premiere at 2010 Beloit International Film Festival on 18 February 2010.[5]

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.[6][7][8][9][10]

Rochon appeared in a new 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 appears 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]

Model acting

Debbie Rochon has appeared on countless film-related magazine covers including:

Debbie 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

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Awards

References

  1. ↑ Apparently actress-provided information on IMDB page, linked from official page and Facebook official fanpage; retrieved January 26, 2014.
  2. ↑ "CultFlicks Interview with Queen-B Debbie Rochon" (mpg4). Cultflicks.net. August 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-21.
  3. ↑ "FANGORIA presents two Universal Horror Nights haunted houses!". Fangoria.
  4. ↑ "New SLIME CITY MASSACRE character posters". Fangoria. Archived from the original on 2009-11-15.
  5. ↑ "Slime City Massacre Lands a Premiere Date". DreadCentral.
  6. ↑ BC Books Interviews Author Jonathan Maberry
  7. ↑ Maberry, Jonathan. "Bad Moon Rising". Pinnacle Press, 2005.
  8. ↑ Horror Chronicles Features Debbie Rochon
  9. ↑ MTV Artist Focus On Tom Savini
  10. ↑ Horror Unlimited Ingrid Pitt Award - Debbie Rochon
  11. ↑ "Today on the Howard 100 News". Retrieved 2009-12-09.
  12. ↑ "Won Ton Baby: New Behind-the-Scenes Stills, One Sheet, and Trailer". DreadCentral.
  13. ↑ The 2015 Rondo Hatton Award Nominations Announced
  14. ↑ Debbie Rochon’s Directorial Debut “MODEL HUNGER”
  15. ↑ Horror Genre - Film Press Release: Cottonmouth
  16. ↑ "AFM '09: 'Walking Distance' Renamed to 'Experimental Activity'". BloodyDisgusting.
  17. ↑ "Four Character Sheets from Slime City Massacre". DreadCentral.
  18. ↑ Official Biography
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