Debbie Rochon

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Debbie Rochon

Born Debbie Ann Rochon
November 3, 1968 (1968-11-03) (age 39)
Vancouver, British Columbia

Debbie Rochon (b. November 3, 1968, Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian B-movie actress and former stage performer.

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Born in Vancouver, Canada, Rochon's early life was fraught with tragedy and misfortune. After her parents were deemed unfit to raise her, she was remanded to foster care at the age of 10. Shuttled from one foster home to the next, Rochon ran away to live on her own on the streets.

Alerted to an open casting call by a fellow homeless youth, Rochon attended and, at the age of thirteen, found herself cast as an extra in Ladies and Gentlemen: The Fabulous Stains! starring Diane Lane, Laura Dern and Ray Winstone. At that point, she realized that acting was going to be her life. By age seventeen, she had saved up enough money to move to New York City. Early on, Rochon worked with numerous off-off Broadway theater companies, performing in over 25 stage productions. She garnered her first printed review in Backstage which read: "Debbie Rochon acquitted her self well as the cocaloony bird in Tennessee Williams' The Gnadiges Fraulein".

Feeling like she had gone as far as she could on the stage, Rochon focused on the cinema and has worked on over one hundred independent features since. The Hubcap Awards founder Joe Bob Briggs crowned Rochon runner-up Best Actress of the year in 1994 for her work on the Canadian-lensed Abducted II: The Reunion. In 1995 she was singled out for her work as the conniving television producer in Broadcast Bombshells winning her the prestigious Barbarella Award.

She was a featured guest player on Fox’s New York Undercover[citation needed]. In 2002 Rochon was crowned Scream Queen of the Decade (1990 - 1999) by the horror genre publication, 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 is perhaps best-known for her work with Troma Entertainment. First appearing as "Edna Purlmutter" for the satirical The Troma System, she went on to appear in Tromeo and Juliet, Terror Firmer, Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV and multiple episodes of Troma's Edge TV. In November 2006 Troma released a "Buy and Burn" DVD at EZtakes.com called Debbie Rochon Confidential, featuring never before seen footage from Debbie's years working with Troma. Two of Debbie's most recent features, The Deepening and Vampyre Tales (appearing in both with genre actor Jim O'Rear) have just been made available on DVD.

In 2003, while working on a 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. After extensive surgery and physical therapy, she has regained limited use of the hand and continues to sport visible scarring.

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 and fellow scream queens Felissa Rose. The following year, she and Snider began broadcasting Fangoria Radio on Sirius Satellite Radio, a weekly talkshow detailing the latest in horror movie news and reviews. She appears regularly at Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors conventions, promoting Fangoria Radio, her films, and most recently Mr. Skin.

2008 will see the World Premiere of Debbie's latest horror ventures, including the Michigan-made film DOG, Savaged, The Colour of 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 popular horror magazines Fangoria and Sirens of Cinema. She also appears in several independent horror and miscellaneous genre films every year.

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Debbie appears as a fictional version of herself (along with fellow horror icons Jim O'Rear, Brinke Stevens, Tom Savini, Ken Foree, and James Gunn) in the novel, Bad Moon Rising by Jonathan Mayberry.

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