17 Facts About Rainbeaux Smith

Cheryl Lynn "Rainbeaux" Smith was an American actress and musician who appeared in a number of mainstream features, as well as exploitation and horror films throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

Rainbeaux Smith attended Bancroft Junior High School and Fairfax High School, with classmates Danny Sugerman and Brett Smiley.

Rainbeaux Smith quit school in order to pursue her dream of acting in films.

Rainbeaux Smith was in the early stages of pregnancy while shooting The Swinging Cheerleaders, and in September 1974, she gave birth to her son Justin Sterling, whose father is rock and jazz guitarist John Sterling.

Rainbeaux Smith returned to the screen in 1975 with a supporting role in the film adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel Farewell, My Lovely, starring Robert Mitchum as Phillip Marlowe, in which Rainbeaux Smith was shown in a violent bedroom scene opposite a then near-unknown Sylvester Stallone.

One of those films, Richard Lerner's Revenge of the Cheerleaders had been shot in 1974 when Rainbeaux Smith was eight months pregnant.

In 1977, Rainbeaux Smith was featured in a mixture of low budget B movies such as The Incredible Melting Man and Robert Aldrich's adaptation of The Choirboys.

Rainbeaux Smith played the titular character in Michael Pataki's Cinderella, with co-star and childhood friend Brett Smiley.

Rainbeaux Smith briefly continued playing drums for Jett after the Runaways' break-up and provided backing vocals for Jett's first solo album.

In 1980, Rainbeaux Smith returned to acting full-time while continuing to work in the music industry.

Rainbeaux Smith was among the performers who collaborated with record producer Jack Nitzsche on the original soundtrack for the William Friedkin film Cruising.

Rainbeaux Smith played drums in Phil Lee's band, and at that time, they were romantically involved.

Rainbeaux Smith worked for the third and final time with Band in 1982's Parasite, which was shot in 3-D.

Rainbeaux Smith was in Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, portraying Veronica Lake in a non-speaking role.

Rainbeaux Smith contributed a spoken-word performance of her song "Sure" for producer and writer Harvey Kubernik's Voices of the Angels, a 1982 album of spoken word performances, which featured writers Charles Bukowski and Danny Sugerman as well as musicians Karri Khrome and Chuck Dukowski.

Rainbeaux Smith had a modeling career and sat for photographers Ron Raffaelli and Jan Eric Deen as well as for numerous commercial fashion photographers located in Los Angeles during the 1970s and 1980s.

Rainbeaux Smith died on October 25,2002, due to complications from liver disease and hepatitis after being addicted to heroin for two decades.