Best known for her alter-ego, Elvira Mistress of the Dark, we're saying Happy Birthday 🍰 to the woman behind the wig, Cassandra Peterson 💘 whom I've had a crush on since the first time I saw her.
Peterson was born in Manhattan KS and raised in Colorado Springs CO.
When she was 5 years old, Peterson was scalded by boiling water on a large portion of her body, as a child, she went through 17 skin graph operations to cover the scars. This didn't stop her from several nude pictorals over the years but she has never appeared nude as Elvira.
She began her showbiz career as the youngest showgirl ever in Vegas, at 17 she was featured in the show, Vive Les Girls at the Dunes Hotel. It was an encounter with The King himself, Elvis Presley that would change her life. She went off to Europe to pursue her career as a singer and actor, she starred in several Italian films and spent time as the lead singer of an Italian rock band.
In 1981 she auditioned for a weekly television show that featured horror films, "Movie Macabre" and her new persona, Elvira were an overnight sensation, enough so that she did a guest appearance in Hal Needham's film, Stroker Ace.
Peterson used the fame of Elvira to help focus on her personal causes of animal rescue and AIDS awareness. She now owns her own production company in Los Angeles called, Queen B Productions.
As a co-writer for Movie Macabre she also co-wrote two motion pictures focusing on her alter-ego, Elvira Mistress of the Dark (1988) and Elvira's Haunted Hills (2001). In 2007 she was the producer, writer and star of, The Search for the next Elvira. She continues to appear all over the world as, Elvira.
To this day, Cassandra and her alter ego are one of the most famous sex symbols in the world, still hosting science fiction and horror events to the delight of her fans.
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