Debbie Rochon

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.

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.

In 1980, 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.

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.

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.

In 2008, Rochon appeared in several new horror ventures, including the Michigan-made film Dog, Savaged, The Colour from the Dark, Psychosomatika, and Beg.

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.

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

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.

She presented the movie on the Premiere at 2010 Beloit International Film Festival on February 18, 2010.

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

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

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.

Breaking Glass Pictures released the feature film Dollface in September 2015, in which Rochon stars as a foul-mouthed groundskeeper.