Cherie Currie

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Cherie Currie

Cherie Currie (born November 30, 1959) is an American singer, actress and chainsaw artist. Currie was the lead vocalist of The Runaways, a hard rock band from Los Angeles in the mid-to-late 1970s.

Life and career

Currie's parents were Don Currie and actress Marie Harmon.[1] She was raised in the San Fernando Valley town of Encino. Her sisters are actress Sondra Currie and her twin Marie Currie.

Currie was the teenage lead vocalist for the all-female rock band The Runaways with bandmates Joan Jett, Lita Ford, Sandy West and Jackie Fox. Bomp! magazine described her as "the lost daughter of Iggy Pop and Brigitte Bardot."

Currie, not yet 16, joined The Runaways in 1975. The teen rock anthem "Cherry Bomb" was written for her at the audition. Attitudes to her impact at that time differ; one reviewer has written that "the received wisdom that [the Runaways] carved out new territory for female musicians is hard to justify - it's doubtful that the predominantly male audience who flocked to see the 16 year old [Currie] in her undies picked up any feminist subtext".[2]

After three albums with The Runaways, (The Runaways, Queens of Noise, and Live in Japan ), Currie went on to record two independent albums (Beauty's Only Skin Deep for Polygram Records, and Messin' With The Boys with twin sister Marie Currie for Capitol Records). She then worked as an actress, starring in movies such as Foxes, Parasite, Wavelength, Twilight Zone: The Movie, The Rosebud Beach Hotel, Rich Girl, and others, as well as numerous guest spots on TV series (Matlock and Murder She Wrote, among others).

Currie wrote a memoir of her teen years called Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway. The book revolves around her dysfunctional family, her struggles with drugs and alcohol, sexual abuse and her days with The Runaways. The Runaways movie, a 2010 musical biographical drama film executive produced by Joan Jett, explores the relationship between Currie and Jett. In the film Currie is portrayed by Dakota Fanning.

Currie was married to actor Robert Hays in the 1990s and they had one son together, Jake Hays. They are now divorced.[3]

In 2008, Currie contributed to Carrie Borzillo-Vrenna's book, Cherry Bomb.[4][5]

Currently, Currie is a wood carving artist who uses a chain saw to create her works.[6]

Currie is putting the finishing touches on a new CD due out later this year. This will be Currie's first album since 1980.

Discography

With The Runaways

Studio Albums

Live Albums

Solo

Studio Albums

Filmography

Year Film Role Notes
1980 Foxes Annie
1982 Parasite Dana
1983 Twilight Zone: The Movie Sara Segment #3
1983 Wavelength Iris Longacre
1984 Murder, She Wrote Echo Cramer TV episode: "It's a dog's life"
1984 The Rosebud Beach Hotel Singing Maid Cherie
1990 Matlock Renee Thorton Two TV episodes: "The Informer: Part 1" and "The Informer: Part 2"
1991 Matlock Betsy Rhodes TV episode: "The Suspect"
1991 Rich Girl Michelle

References

  1. ^ http://www.tribute.ca/news/index.php/neon-angel-interview-with-the-runaways-cherie-currie/2010/03/26/
  2. ^ Sunday Times Culture, 25 April 2010
  3. ^ Cherie Currie rocks with biopic
  4. ^ LA WEEKLY July 30, 2008
  5. ^ "WHO SAYS COOLNESS CAN'T BE TAUGHT?". skope mag.com. 2008-05-07. Retrieved 2008-08-13.
  6. ^ http://www.chainsawchick.com/

External links

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