Debbie Rochon
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Debbie Rochon
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| Born |
November 3, 1968 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Occupation | Actress, former stage performer |
| Years active | 1982 - present |
Debbie Ann Rochon (born November 3, 1968 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian actress and former stage performer, best known for her work in independent horror films and counter-culture 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 Rochon with a large vertical scar.
In 1981, after being alerted to an open casting call by another homeless youth, Rochon was cast as a rock concert extra in Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains. 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 and worked on over two hundred independent features. The Hubcap Awards founder Joe Bob Briggs crowned Rochon 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 American Nightmare. She has won over a dozen more awards for her film work.
Rochon is perhaps best known for her work with Troma Entertainment. First appearing as Edna Purlmutte for the satirical The Troma System, she went on to appear in Tromeo and Juliet, Terror Firmer, Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV and episodes of Troma's Edge TV. In November 2006, Troma released Debbie Rochon Confidential featuring previously unreleased footage from Rochon's years with Troma.
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