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Deborah Foreman


The incredibly beautiful Deborah Foreman
Deborah Foreman was that perfect, unattainable girl, in films and in real life. She was a shy young teenager in Texas, who came to symbolize that feminine ideal for a generation in the film Valley Girl. The girls all wanted to be her best friend, and the boys all wanted to be the charming outsider who swept her off her feet. (Hey, if that big-headed, droopy-eyed Nicholas Cage guy could do it, so could you!)

Deborah began her career in show business at age 13, in the Barbizon School of Modeling in Houston. Her modeling career continued throughout high school, while she received top grades in her classes. She really was the shy, smart, artistic beauty of every guy's dreams.

Deborah was then signed by Wilhelmina Models, West Coast, and modeled for Maybelline Cosmetics in print and TV ads. She then moved to Los Angeles, and within four weeks she earned her SAG card for a British McDonald's commercial.

But commercial acting and modeling weren't enough -- she wanted to be a great actress. She studied Method Acting, the "Sandy Meisner Method," and under Roy London, who combined both studies. At first, this only prepared her for such challenging roles as "Jenny" on TJ Hooker, but more serious work followed, with parts in films like I'm Dancing As Fast as I Can with Jill Clayburgh.

Then, at age 20, Foreman got her first starring role as "Julie Richman" in the break-out hit, Valley Girl. She played a smart, popular young girl who defied the conventions of her social circle to follow her dream -- a role Deborah was playing in real life... and she nailed it. The film was a huge hit, and helped win Deborah the "Most Promising New Star" award at ShoWest in 1986.

She quickly became a fan favorite in over a dozen films, including My Chauffeur, Waxwork, April Fool's Day (in which the All-American valley girl turns out to be a knife-wielding whacko), and the classic comedy Real Genius. Then as teen romances and slasher films went out of vogue, she then became a darling of cult films, appearing in such quirky movies as Lobster Man from Mars and Lunatics: A Love Story.

During the nineties, Foreman also began exploring other types of art, including graphic design and hand-painting furniture, which she continues to do along with her acting. Samples of her work can be seen on her home web site, here.

Currently, she's preparing to do a film with Rutger Hauer, titled Drive. When she isn't auditioning, reading scripts, creating art or doing yoga, she's on the Internet, where there are a lot of adoring fan sites dedicated to her. There's even a "Deb-Head" forum that she drops in on occasionally in order to talk with her fans. Still beautiful, talented, sensitive, artistic, passionate... Oops, I've trailed off into my old schoolboy fantasies again. Wake up! It's time for the interview!


TEN QUESTIONS

SportsHollywood: What's your favorite sport?

FOREMAN: Basketball.

SportsHollywood: What's your favorite sports team?

FOREMAN: The Dallas Cowboys.

SportsHollywood: Who's your favorite athlete?

FOREMAN: Kobe Bryant & Shaquille O'Neal (I have two).

SportsHollywood: Lakers or Clippers?

FOREMAN: Lakers all the way.


With Val Kilmer in Real Genius.
SportsHollywood: Favorite sports movie?

FOREMAN: HEAVEN CAN WAIT (Warren Beatty version).

SportsHollywood: Which of your films is your favorite?

FOREMAN: MY CHAUFFER.

SportsHollywood: "I'll stop the world and melt with you." What the hell does that mean?

FOREMAN: When two people meet and magic happens. The world stops, but the two of them are spinning. It has happened to me once.

SportsHollywood: What role would you most like to portray?

FOREMAN: Any role directed by Adrian Lyne. Also, any role Jessica Lange & Glenn Close would do.

SportsHollywood: What is valley girl Julie Richman doing today?

FOREMAN: Julie won a scholarship to Harvard. Graduated with honors and received another scholarship to Boston University Medical School. Julie became a medical doctor, alas, losing her medical license to a terrible addiction to heroin. As an ex-addict, she now manages Autoworld Go Carts in West Covina, California. She has the highest score on PacMan... Go Julie!!!

Interview by Jeff Hause

Deborah Foreman
Birthday: October 12
Film: Drive (2002); The Ice Age (2002); Lunatics: A Love Story (1991); The Experts (1989); Friends, Lovers, & Lunatics (1989), Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1989); Lobster Man from Mars (1989); Destroyer (1988); Waxwork (1988); 3:15 (1986); Charlie Barnett's Terms of Enrollment (1986); April Fool's Day (1986/I); My Chauffeur (1986); Real Genius (1985); Valley Girl (1983); Love in the Present Tense (1982) (TV); In the Custody of Strangers (1982) (TV); I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can (1982)
Television: TJ Hooker (three episodes); The Marshal (1995); MacGyver (1985); Family Ties

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