1. Barbara Linnea Quigley was born on May 27,1958 and is an American actress, best known as a scream queen in low-budget horror films during the 1980s and 1990s.
25 Facts About Linnea Quigley
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Linnea Quigley continued receiving small parts, mostly in B movies.
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Linnea Quigley followed with more films such as Savage Streets and Silent Night, Deadly Night.
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In 1985, Linnea Quigley appeared in the zombie horror film The Return of the Living Dead playing a teenaged punk, which is considered one of her most notable roles and earned her "scream queen" status.
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Linnea Quigley repeatedly worked with the directors David DeCoteau and Kevin Tenney, and appeared alongside fellow scream queens Brinke Stevens and Michelle Bauer.
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Linnea Quigley is an animal rights activist and a member of PETA.
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Linnea Quigley was born on May 27,1958, in Davenport, Iowa, the daughter of Dorothy and William Heath Linnea Quigley.
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Linnea Quigley worked as an executive vice president at Palmer College of Chiropractic.
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An only child, Linnea Quigley attended Garfield Elementary and Sudlow Middle Schools in Davenport.
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Shortly after graduating from high school in 1976, Linnea Quigley moved with her parents to Los Angeles.
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Linnea Quigley landed a job at Jack LaLanne's health spa, where she met models who worked in films by doing work as extras.
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Linnea Quigley continued receiving small parts in films such as Don't Go Near the Park and the Troma slasher Graduation Day.
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Linnea Quigley was given the role of Dolores after the original actress refused to do nude scenes.
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In one of the scenes, Linnea Quigley played a waitress menaced by a truck driver.
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Besides modeling and auditioning for films, Linnea Quigley began auditioning for bands that would let her join in.
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Linnea Quigley first played guitar in an all-female band, Mad Whistle, started by singer and songwriter Lucrecia Sarita Russo.
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Linnea Quigley then managed to form her own band called The Skirts.
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Linnea Quigley is best known for her role in The Return of the Living Dead.
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Linnea Quigley has starred in dozens of other horror films, including Savage Streets, Silent Night, Deadly Night, Nightmare Sisters, Creepozoids, Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama, Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers, Night of the Demons, and A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master.
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Linnea Quigley is the author of two books about her career as a B-movie actress, Chainsaw and I'm Screaming as Fast as I Can.
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Linnea Quigley has been called the "Queen of the Bs".
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Linnea Quigley played in David DeCoteau's movies 1313: Cougar Cult and 3 Scream Queens, and Charles Band's web series Trophy Heads with Brinke Stevens and Michelle Bauer.
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Linnea Quigley left the college in the late 1980s to open a private practice.
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Linnea Quigley switched to a vegetarian diet in the late 1970s after her move to Los Angeles, first by eliminating red meat, then chicken and fish, and eventually all dairy and all other foods from animals.
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Linnea Quigley is an animal-rights activist and an active member of the animal-rights organization PETA.