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Debbie Ann Rochon (born November 3, 1968) is a Canadian actress and former stage performer, best known for her work in independent
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s and counterculture films.


Early life

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 her with a large vertical scar.


Career

In 1980, when she was 14, Rochon was cast as a rock-concert extra in '' Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains'' after being alerted to an open-casting call by another homeless youth. She worked for three months and earned $300 cash a week. That experience made her fall in love with filmmaking and acting. 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 ''
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'' which read: "Debbie Rochon acquitted herself well as the cocaloony bird in Tennessee Williams' ''The Gnadiges Fraulein''." Rochon then focused on the cinema. Her first substantial role was in ''Banned'', a 1989 film director by
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. It also featured Rochon’s first nude scene. She then went on to appear in over two hundred independent features. The Hubcap Awards founder Joe Bob Briggs crowned Rochon as 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 . She has won over a dozen more awards for her film work. In 2003, while working on an unreleased film in Tennessee, Rochon suffered an accident with a prop machete which resulted in the near-severing of the four fingers of her right hand. After extensive surgery and physical therapy, she regained limited use of the hand. In 2004, Rochon won MicroCinemaFest's "Best Comedy Actress" award for her work in ''Dr. Horror's Erotic House of Idiots''. She also co-hosted the 2005
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with
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. The following year, she and Snider began broadcasting
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on Sirius Satellite Radio, a weekly talk show of horror movie news and reviews. The show ran from 2006 till 2010. She appears regularly at
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conventions and others. In 2008, Rochon appeared in several new horror ventures, including the Michigan-made film ''Dog'', ''Savaged'', ''The Colour from the Dark'', ''Psychosomatika'', and ''Beg''. She can also be seen in the After Dark-released film ''Mulberry Street'', directed by Jim Mickle, which had a theatrical run as part of the
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series in 2007. Rochon is featured as a character in the 2008 novel ''Bad Moon Rising'' by
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, Joe Bob Briggs, James Gunn, and
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. She appeared in a 2009 documentary '' Pretty Bloody: The Women of Horror''. Also in 2009, she starred as Alice in ''
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'', a sequel to the cult film ''
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''; both films were directed by
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. She presented the movie on the Premiere at 2010 Beloit International Film Festival on February 18, 2010. Rochon appeared in a feature film by
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Productions, ''Killer Hoo-Ha!''. She portrayed Madam Won Ton in the 2011 horror comedy film ''Won Ton Baby!'' by James Morgart. Rochon served as a model for the esteemed illustrator Dave Stevens and appeared in his final work, a book titled ''Brush with Passion: The Art and Life of Dave Stevens''. She portrayed Eleanor of Aquitaine in the 2014 film ''Richard the Lionheart: Rebellion''. In 2015, she was nominated for a Rondo Hatton Award for her column "Diary of the Deb" in the ''Fangoria'' magazine. Breaking Glass Pictures released the feature film ''Dollface'' in September 2015, in which Rochon stars as a foul-mouthed groundskeeper. She was praised for her performance in ''Dollface'', which won numerous awards in 2014/2015 including Horror Society's "Best Indie Horror Film of 2014". Also in 2015, she made her directorial debut with the horror thriller film ''Model Hunger''. One of Rochon's most critically acclaimed titles is the Italian-made H. P. Lovecraft-based film ''Colour from the Dark'', in which she plays the possessed wife of a farmer in a wartorn area in 1943. Rochon resides in New York City and works for the horror magazine ''
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''.


Model acting

Rochon has appeared on many film-related magazine covers including: * '' Fangoria Magazine'' * ''
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'' * The Phantom of the Movies' ''Videoscope Magazine'' * ''Vamperotica Magazine'' * ''Vampirella Magazine'' * ''Draculina Magazine'' * Three covers for ''Femme Fatales'' magazine * Three covers for ''Scream Queens Illustrated'' magazine * Two covers for ''Sirens of Cinema Magazine'' * ''Gotham Magazine'' * ''Too Square Magazine'' * Three covers for ''Alternative Cinema Magazine'' * ''Spice Magazine'' * ''B-movies Magazine'' * ''The Dark Side Magazine'' Rochon has written for numerous genre publications including: * ''
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'' magazine, her regular column is titled "Diary of the Deb" * The Phantom of the Movies' ''VIDEOSCOPE'' magazine * ''Steppin' Out Magazine'' * ''The Gore Zone Magazine'' * ''Femme Fatales'' magazine * ''Sirens of Cinema Magazine'' * ''Chiller Theatre Magazine'' * ''Scars Magazine'' * ''Masters of Kung Fu Magazine'' As well as a regular column in ''The Joe Bob Report'' (published by Joe Bob Briggs)


Selected filmography

* ''Negatives'' (1988) * '' Santa Claws'' (1996) * ''
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'' (1996) * ''
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'' (1999) * (2002) * ''Bleed'' (2002) * '' Play-mate of the Apes'' (2002) * '' Final Examination'' (2003) * '' Corpses Are Forever'' (2003) * ''Nowhere Man'' (2005) * ''Attack of the Tromaggot'' (2006) * ''The Deepening'' (2007) * ''Dog'' (2009) * ''Fearmakers'' (2008) * ''Colour From The Dark'' (2008) * ''
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'' (2009) * ''Dark Karma'' (2009) * '' Hanger'' (2009) * ''Nun of That'' (2009) * ''Stopped Dead'' (2009) * ''Cottonmouth'' (2009) * ''Killer Hoo Ha'' (2010) * ''Psychic Experiment'' (2010) (formally ''Walking Distance'') * ''
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'' (2010) * ''Won Ton Baby!'' (2010) * '' As Night Falls'' (2010) * ''Demon Divas and the Lanes of Damnation'' (2010) * ''Sick Boy'' (2011) * ''Exhumed'' (2011) * ''Solid State'' (2012) * ''Wrath of the Crows'' (2013) * ''Billy's Cult'' (2013) * ''Richard the Lionheart: Rebellion'' (2014) * ''
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'' (2014) * ''The House of Covered Mirrors'' (2015) * ''
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'' (2015) * ''The Ungovernable Force'' (2016) * ''Dollface'' (2015) * ''Accidental Switch'' (2016) * '' Death House'' (2017) as Leatherlace


Awards

* 1st Runner up in Joe Bob Briggs' 1996 Hubbie Award for Best Actress in "Abducted II: The Reunion" (1994). *1997 Barbarella Award for best actress in "Broadcast Bombshells" (1995). *2002 Phantom of the Movies' Videoscope award "Best Psychette" (Best Female Psycho in a movie) for her role as 'Jane Toppan' in "American Nightmare" (2002). * 'Scream Queen of the Decade Award' (1990 to present) from Draculina Magazine (2003)reader's poll. * Inducted into the B-Movie Hall of Fame October 2004. * 2004 Micro Cinema Film Festival Award for "Best Actress in a Comedy" for her work in "Dr. Horror's Erotic House of Idiots". *Won Best Supporting Actress Award for her work in the comedy sci-fi send-up "Screech of the Decapitated" at the 2005 B-Movie Awards.Official Biography
*Won Best Actress at the 2011 Buffalo Screams Film Festival for her role in
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's THE TELL TALE HEART - part of the TALES OF POE (2012) horror anthology. *Was inducted into The Hell of Fame Feb. 2012. *Won Best Actress Award at The Golden Cobs 2011 for her role in Alien Vengeance (2010). *Won Best Actress Award at the Macabre Faire Film Festival 2012 for her role in The Tell Tale Heart. *Served as a jury member on the first all female jury at The Oldenburg Film Festival 2012, alongside Mira Sorvino, Gabrielle Miller, Tamar Simon Hoffs and Lana Morgan. *Won Best Actress Award at the 2012 Terror Film Festival for her work in The Tell Tale Heart. *Won Best Actress Award at the 2012 Pollygrind Film Festival for her work in Exhumed. *Honored with the inaugural Ingrid Pitt Award for Excellence and Perseverance in Horror on January 12, 2013.


References


External links


Official website
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Debbie Rochon Interview at Buried.com

Debbie Rochon Interview at (re)Search my Trash


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