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Adrienne King (born July 21, 1960)[lower-alpha 1] is an American film, stage, and voice actress. A child actor, King made her film debut as Melinda in the television feature Inherit the Wind (1965) before appearing in Between the Lines (1977), Saturday Night Fever (1977), and Hair (1979) in uncredited roles. She is best known for portraying Alice Hardy in Sean S. Cunningham's horror film Friday the 13th (1980), a role she later reprised in Steve Miner's sequel Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) and James Sweet's fan film Jason Rising (2021).[2]

Adrienne King
King in 2009
Born	(1960-07-21) July 21, 1960 (age 62) Oyster Bay, New York, U.S.
Education	Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1965–present
Spouse	Richard Hassanein ​ (m. 1987)​
Website	adrienneking.com

After appearing in the first Friday the 13th film, King was stalked aggressively; although the man was eventually imprisoned, the experience prompted her to go into seclusion. King worked as a stunt performer and extra for the supernatural comedy film Ghostbusters (1984). She reemerged doing voice acting and dubbing in the early 1990's, providing looping voices for a wide range of films including, The Night We Never Met (1993), The Man Without a Face (1993), What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), The Good Son (1993), Wolf (1994), While You Were Sleeping (1994), Jerry Maguire (1996), and Titanic (1997).

In 2009, she made her first on-screen appearance in nearly three decades in the independent film, Psychic Experiment, followed by supporting parts in All American Bully (2011) and The Butterfly Room (2012). King is the narrator of the audiobook of Grady Hendrix's novel The Final Girl Support Group (2021).

Life and career

1960–1979: Early life and roles

King was born July 21, 1960[1] in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York. She is a first-generation American; her mother was English and from Liverpool, and her father was of Hungarian Jewish and Czech descent.[3] King's mother put her into acting at 6-months old in commercials alongside her brother and sister, something she describes as her not having much control over.[4] In 1965 around age five,[5] she appeared in the television film Inherit the Wind in a supporting role.[5] Beginning in ninth grade, she began auditioning for films in New York City: "As long as I kept my grades up, everyone was cool with it," she recalled.[5]

She soon began training under Bill Esper, a student of acting instructor Sanford Meisner.[5] She began to obtain parts in soap operas, Off-off-Broadway productions, and in several television commercials most notably Burger King advertising.[4] Additionally, she worked as an extra, as well as performing as an uncredited dancer in the films Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Hair (1979).[5] She also had a small supporting role in the comedy film Between the Lines (1977). During this time, she studied art at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology.[6]

1980–2008: Friday the 13th and after

In 1979, while King was appearing in a commercial for Burger King, she was referred to producer Sean S. Cunningham through a mutual friend for a role in his directorial debut, the horror film Friday the 13th. Cunningham felt King embodied the qualities of the film's lead heroine, Alice Hardy, and he cast her in the film.[5] Friday the 13th grossed nearly $60 million worldwide.[7]

The following year, she reprised her role as Alice Hardy in the sequel Friday the 13th Part 2, in which the character meets her demise.[8][9] After the success of Friday the 13th, King was pursued by a male stalker who managed to learn areas she frequented, where she exercised, and ate lunch.[10] The man took Polaroid photographs of King that he would slip under the door of her apartment in New York City, and at one point, broke into her apartment and defaced her artwork.[10] On one occasion, the man confronted her in her apartment and held a gun to her head.[10] The assailant was apprehended and spent some time imprisoned, but the incident traumatized King, prompting her to leave the public eye.[10] Her last on-camera screen appearance at that time was a commercial for Downy which she filmed in 1983.[11] Subsequently, King was hired as a stunt performer and background actor for the Ivan Reitman film Ghostbusters (1984), having been acquainted with the stunt coordinator Cliff Cudney.[12]

She subsequently relocated to London[10] where she enrolled at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, studying voice and dance.[3] Upon finishing her studies, she returned to the United States, settling in Los Angeles where she met her husband, Richard Hassanein, the founder of United Film Distribution.[13] Reluctant to appear onscreen, King reemerged doing voice acting and ADR work, first for Mel Gibson's The Man Without a Face, and the Lasse Hallström-directed drama What's Eating Gilbert Grape? (both 1993).[14] She continued to provide voice work for numerous Hollywood productions throughout the 1990's, including Philadelphia (1993), The Pelican Brief (1993), Wolf (1994), Cameron Crowe's Jerry Maguire (1996), and James Cameron's Titanic (1997).[14] She would later state: "Voiceover work saved me. There's no question it came all around full circle, and I'm a better, more compassionate and stronger actor and artist."[14]

2009–present: film and other projects

In 2009, she signed on to the science-fiction/horror film Psychic Experiment, marking her first onscreen film appearance in 27 years.[15] In 2012, she starred in the Welsh Christmas horror film Silent Night, Bloody Night: The Homecoming, an unofficial sequel to the American horror film Silent Night, Bloody Night (1974)[16] and The Butterfly Room.[17] King is set to portray Jackie Winters, an investigative reporter, in the upcoming horror film William Froste and Theresa in the short film Admonition.[18]

As of 2010, King also worked as a winemaker and wine company coordinator in southern Oregon.[19][20] She has sold her own line of Friday the 13th-themed wines through the company, called Crystal Lake Wines, as well as paintings.[21]

In 2021, King reprised her role as Alice Hardy in the medium-length horror film Jason Rising.[2]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1965	Inherit the Wind	Melinda	Television film
1977	Between the Lines	Young Lady	Uncredited
1977	Saturday Night Fever	Dancer	Uncredited
1979	Hair	Dancer	Uncredited
1980	Friday the 13th	Alice Hardy
1981	Friday the 13th Part 2	Alice Hardy
1984	Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter	Alice Hardy	Archive footage
1984	Ghostbusters	Extra[22]	Stunt performer; uncredited
1984	Terror in the Aisles	Alice Hardy	Archive footage
1992–99	Melrose Place		Voice looping; 7 seasons
1993	The Man Without a Face		Voice looping
1993	The Good Son		Voice looping
1993	What's Eating Gilbert Grape	Group (voice)
1993	Philadelphia		Voice looping; uncredited
1993	The Pelican Brief		Voice looping; uncredited
1994	Wolf		Voice looping
1995	While You Were Sleeping		Voice looping; uncredited
1996	Jerry Maguire		Voice looping; uncredited
1997	Titanic		Voice looping; uncredited
1997	MouseHunt		Voice looping
2000	Almost Famous		Voice looping; uncredited
2010	Psychic Experiment	Louise Strack
2011	All American Bully	Principal Kane
2012	The Butterfly Room	Rachel
2012	Gabby's Wish	Angela
2013	Silent Night, Bloody Night: Homecoming	The Stranger	Voice role
2013	Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th	Herself	Documentary
2013	This Is the End		Voice looping; uncredited
2014	Tales of Poe	Queen of Dreams/Private Nurse
2017	Friday the 13th Part 3: The Memoriam Documentary	Herself	Documentary
2018	Admonition	Theresa	Short film
2018	William Froste	Jackie Winters
2019	Killer Therapy	Mrs. Perkins
2021	Jason Rising	Alice Hardy	Fan film
2022	The Dead Girl in Apartment 03	Detective Richards

Notes

References

Sources

• Bracken, Peter (2006). Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th. Titan Books. ISBN 978-1-845-76343-5.
• Norman, Jason (2014). Welcome to Our Nightmares: Behind the Scene with Today's Horror Actors. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-786-47986-3.
• Williams, Tony (2015). "Trying to Survive on the Darker Side: 1980s Family Horror". In Grant, Barry Keith (ed.). The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-1-477-30242-2.

External links

• Adrienne King at IMDb
• Adrienne King on Myspace

На других языках

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[de] Adrienne King

Adrienne King (* 21. Juli 1960 in Oyster Bay, New York) ist eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin. Bekannt wurde sie vor allem durch ihre Rolle in den ersten beiden Filmen der Freitag der 13.-Reihe.

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- [en] Adrienne King

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[es] Adrienne King

Adrienne King (Oyster Bay, Long Island, Nueva York, 4 de febrero de 1960) es una actriz, bailarina y pintora estadounidense. Es conocida por su papel de Alice Hardy en la película Friday the 13th (1980) y Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981).

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[ru] Кинг, Эдриан

Эдриан Кинг (англ. Adrienne King) — американская актриса, наиболее известная по роли Элис Харди  (англ.) (рус. в культовом слэшере «Пятница, 13-е».

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