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A multi-hyphenate singer, actor, author, and voice actor, Barbeau became a household name in the 1970s. But before fans called her by her birth name, they knew her best as simply Rizzo.
View this post on InstagramHer raunchy, unapologetic take on the Pink Lady (embodied later on the big screen by Stockard Channing) earned Barbeau a Tony Award nomination.
For her second act, Barbeau moved to the small screen, starring as Carol Traynor on the groundbreaking 1970s sitcomMaude. A spin-off from the crazy-popular All in the Family, Barbeau played the divorced daughter of Bea Arthur’s Maude, cousin of Edith Bunker. The show won a Primetime Emmy in 1977.
“People talk about The Fog all the time,” she said recently on The Jim Masters Show. “There’s a whole new generation of people who have discovered The Fog. They may not know Maude … but they know The Fog, and they know Escape From New York.”
Some of her other more recent projects include playing Ruthie the snake dancer on HBO's Carnivàle (2003–2005), as well as parts on Revenge(2012-2015), Duster (2025), Harlan Coben'sShelter (2023), and 9-1-1 (2023).
Currently, Barbeau is promoting her new film, Oddities, which premiered at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival in Belgium on April 14.
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