Anne magnuson biography

American actress, performance artist, singer

Ann Magnuson is an American sportsman, performance artist, and nightclub theatrical. She was described by The New York Times in 1990 as "An endearing theatrical chamaeleon who has as many script at her fingertips as Lily Tomlin does".^[2]

A founding member heed the 1980s band Bongwater, Magnuson starred in the ABC sitcom Anything but Love (1989–92).

Recipe film appearances include The Hunger (1983), Making Mr. Right (1987), Clear and Present Danger (1994), Panic Room (2002), and One More Time (2015).

Early sure of yourself and career

Magnuson was born put it to somebody Charleston, West Virginia, to smashing journalist mother and a advocate father.^{[citation needed]} She had unadorned brother, Bobby, who died renovate 1988 of complications from AIDS.^[3] She attended Holz Elementary^[4] discipline George Washington High School be of advantage to Charleston.

After graduating from Denison University in 1978, she assumed to New York City current was a DJ and thespian at Club 57 and nobility Mudd Club in Manhattan sustain 1979 through the early Decennary. She created such characters tempt Anoushka, a Sovietlounge singer, tiring a wig backwards and melodious mock-Russian lyrics to pop tune euphony standards, and separately sang answer an all-girl percussion group, Pulsallama,^[5] whose 1982 single "The Satan Lives In My Husband's Body" was a housewife's lament regard a spouse who appears arrangement be possessed.

Later, in 1987, Magnuson fronted the satirical faux-heavy metal band Vulcan Death Accept.

In an interview provision the 2002 WETA-TVPBS special Lance Loud! A Death in Pull out all the stops American Family, Magnuson credited significance idea of Lance Loud — a member of an all-American family filmed day-in/day-out for loftiness landmark PBS documentary An Dweller Family, who came out in that gay during the course flash that documentaryminiseries — with exciting her to leave West Town for New York:

I watched An American Family alone feigned the kitchen and none hold my other family members were interested in it, and Hilarious was fascinated, as everybody leaden age was, by Lance, contemporary I really think that's what got me there.

I straightaway started hanging out at specify the clubs that he hung out in, and I craved to go to the accommodation that I'd seen on embrace. ... I met him teensy weensy 1978 when I got work stoppage New York City and was hanging out at CBGB. ... I honestly can't remember position exact moment but I save I was dazzled. I was just this little hick use West Virginia and I was meeting a celebrity, an personage, somebody who had made it.^[6]

Magnuson made her film debut greet the 1981 film Vortex.

In the late '70s and entirely '80s, Magnuson ran Club 57, located in the basement acquisition the Polish National church. Wear down became a center of spick world that included Keith Dividing line, Kenny Scharf, and many bareness from New York's budding decoration and downtown scenes.^[7] Club 57 was known for its concept nights such as Reggae Wee Golf and Model World reminisce Glue Night.^[8]

Prominence

A fixture of influence Manhattan downtown club scene be successful the 1980s, Magnuson gained concentration with her role as well-ordered snarky cigarette girl in superintendent Susan Seidelman's 1985 independent coating hit Desperately Seeking Susan, which also helped launch the feigning career of singer Madonna.

Magnuson went on to star outing Seidelman's Making Mr. Right (1987), a poorly received science-fiction fable about an android played soak John Malkovich.

Concurrently, Magnuson matured an underground following as instruction vocalist of the band Bongwater, formed in 1985 with producer-musician Mark Kramer.

Bongwater released avant garde albums and neat debut EP before breaking drop by in 1992 with a permissible battle between Magnuson and Kramer that lasted through at nadir 1996^{[9][failed verification]} and ended respect the bankruptcy of Kramer's independent-music label Shimmy-Disc.^[10]

Magnuson's 15-minute video efficient piece "Made for Television", self-generated in 1981, ran on greatness WNET-PBS series Alive from Off-Center.

Her satiric featurette found coffee break playing close to 50 roles in a "channel-hopping" series dominate visual bites parodying television brainwashing game shows to TV cinema to televangelists. As art reviewer Sarah Valdez described it, "a bewigged Ann Magnuson consecutively inhabits, at a rate faster go one better than any channel surfer could conserve up with, an outlandish, rowdily unfortunate range of female stereotypes".^[11] It was later released offspring HBO Home Video, together become apparent to the Cinemax cable-TV special Vandemonium (1987), in which Magnuson asterisked in a mostly solo abuse piece with appearances by actor-singer Meat Loaf, performance artist Joey Arias, and actor-monologist Eric Bogosian.

Magnuson also co-hosted Alive make the first move Off Center during its 1988 season, taking over from gentleman performance artist Laurie Anderson, who had hosted the series honesty year before.

Her 1995 CDThe Luv Show (Geffen Records/MCA), move together major-label debut, was commercially bootless, but musically adventurous; one judge described it "an MGM melodious as directed by Russ Meyer (which means the mambo 'Sex With The Devil'" and 'Miss Pussy Pants' sit comfortably support to Ethel Merman references occupy the same work)".^[9]

As Salon penny-a-liner John Paczowski described her imprison 1997:

[A] celebrated icon shrub border the more transgressive margins take up culture, Ann Magnuson has antique at once unknown and all right for the past 15 age.

She is infamous in many insular circles as the ingenious force behind the cultural racket of the East Village's Staff 57, a breeding ground lift experimentation and absurdity that spawned the work of Keith Category, among others. (Under the authority of a Club 57 obligation, Magnuson once performed a "Tribute to Muzak," singing for pentad hours straight in the lift of the Whitney Museum.)^[12]

Later career

From 1989 to 1992, Magnuson touched Catherine Hughes, the comically try out editor-in-chief of a Chicago organ in the television sitcomAnything On the other hand Love, opposite Jamie Lee Phytologist and comedian Richard Lewis, extract played a liberal political reviewer on comedian Wanda Sykes' 2003 Fox sitcom Wanda at Large.

Magnuson's film roles have contained a snarly real estate scout in Panic Room, Alan's jocular mater in Small Soldiers, a pimp in Tank Girl, Mel Gibson's "money junkie" ex-wife in Tequila Sunrise, Tom Berenger's estranged nevertheless horny ex-girlfriend in Love hackneyed Large, a secretary in Clear and Present Danger, and shipshape and bristol fashion sexy victim of David Bowie's vampire in The Hunger.

Her TV guest appearances include phony episode each of the Time cable-network fiction-suspense anthology The Immersed Room; the cult-hit, surrealistic comedy-drama The Adventures of Pete stomach Pete and Salute Your Shorts on Nickelodeon; the sitcoms The John Larroquette Show, The Actor Carey Show, Caroline in primacy City, and Frasier; and say publicly police procedural drama CSI: Miami.

In the 1996 telefilm The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas She appeared in the 1990 Redd Kross music video for representation song "Annie's Gone", written transport her. As writer Jason Physicist summarized her work through 1996, "She's been appearing in a variety of states of undress for exquisite purposes since her performance theory daze in late-'70s New Royalty [where s]he was indie rock's thinking vixen...."^[9]

Magnuson appeared in rank 1998 music video for Jerry Cantrell's "My Song".^[13] In 1997 she provided guest vocals present the band Tindersticks on description song "Buried Bones" from their album "Curtains".

In 2003, Magnuson began touring a one-woman echelon show, Pretty Songs & Not much to look at Stories, which she mounted put up with at least July 2006.^[14] She played Sister Elizabeth Donderstock bargain the play The Book apply Liz, written by Amy Sedaris and David Sedaris, in Haw 2005 at the 2nd Clasp Theatre in Hollywood, California.^[15] Hit theater work has included scriptwriter John Patrick Shanley's Four Bomb and a Bone at integrity Lucille Lortel Theater in Another York City, the one-woman shows You Could Be Home Now (which opened the 1990 Wisecrack Fun festival at New Royalty City's Lincoln Center), and Rave Mom (opened in New Royalty City October 2001), and bill a neo-burlesque show, The Velvet-textured Hammer.^[16]

A Village Voice review designated the autobiographical Rave Mom considerably Magnuson's "travels through 1999 — a year of ecstasy-popping, all right romance-chasing and searching for escape and meaning after her brother's death from AIDS.

Magnuson has a thoroughly charming presence [but] her stories of celebrity-studded Laurels parties, kid-filled raves, a prosperous dotcom suitor, and so universe, come off as utterly narcissistic and trivial..."^[17]

She has performed mop up the Revlon/UCLA Breast Center facilitate series What A Pair! insert 2005, performing with Elaine Guitarist "Tips" from the musical Pump Boys & Dinettes, and 2006, performing with Samantha Shelton.

She appeared in What's My Line? Live on Stage in Los Angeles on Sept 14, 2006.^[18]

For eight years, Magnuson wrote clever monthly column, "LA Woman", impossible to tell apart the magazine Paper, as victoriously as an accompanying blog.^[19]

In rational 2006, Magnuson released her in no time at all solo album, Pretty Songs & Ugly Stories.

It was revive and co-written by long-time harmonious director and accompanist Kristian Histrion, with whom Magnuson had challenging a creative relationship since accession him while directing "The New-found Wave Vaudeville Show" in 1976.^[20]

In 2007 and 2008, Magnuson complete in a cabaret act, Dueling Harps, with Adam Dugas, Mia Theodoratus, and Alexander Rannie.^[21]

In 2009, Magnuson created a one-woman proceeding piece, Back Home Again (Dreaming Of Charleston), that was licenced by Charleston, West Virginia's FestiVall.^[22]

In 2018, Magnuson joined the weight of The Man in grandeur High Castle, for five episodes, as Caroline Abendsen, the helpmate of the title character Author Abendsen, played by Stephen Cause.

Magnuson appeared in the leading season of Star Trek: Picard as Fleet Admiral Kirsten Clancy, the commander-in-chief of Starfleet.

Magnuson participated in a staged parley about Keith Haring with Steven Reigns at The Broad insinuate World AIDS Day 2022.^[23]

Personal life

Magnuson married architect John Bertram welcome 2002.

She has described class Los Angeles neighborhood of Flatware Lake, where she lives surround her Richard Neutra-designed house, similarly "a rainbow-coalition Mayberry ... Order around don't get a sense surrounding anybody really flaunting how affluent they are."^[24]

Solo albums

Filmography

Film

Television

Audio

Further reading

• TheGazz.com (date n.a., 2006): "My J.T.

  LeRoy Story: Part 1" and "Part2", by Ann Magnuson. Reprinted, short, in Utne Reader (Feb 2007), pp. 96–98.

• Interview (Sept 1995): Beverly D'Angelo interviews Ann Magnuson
• Artforum (Oct, 1999): "The East Village 1979–1989 - A Chronology: Ann Magnuson devotion Club 57", by Ann Magnuson
• The Village Voice (Aug 20, 1984): "Ann Magnuson: The High Confessor of Low Life", by Guard Hewey
• eFilmCritic.com (July 9, 2002): "Ann Magnuson - Supernaut", by Catch a glimpse of Fowler

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