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Ann Magnuson (born January 4, 1956) is an American actress, performance artist and nightclub performer. A founder member of the band Bongwater, she starred in the ABC sitcom ''Anything but Love'' (1989–92). Her film appearances include ''The Hunger'' (1983), ''Making Mr. Right'' (1987), ''Clear and Present Danger'' (1994) and ''Panic Room'' (2002). ''The New York Times'' described her as "An endearing theatrical chameleon who has as many characters at her fingertips as Lily Tomlin does".〔( ''The New York Times'' (July 17, 1990): "Review/Performance Art: Ann Magnuson, a Cast All by Herself", by Stephen Holden )〕 ==Early life and career== Magnuson was born in Charleston, West Virginia to a journalist mother and a lawyer father.〔(Ann Magnuson Biography (1956-) )〕 She had a brother, Bobby, who died in 1988 of complications from AIDS.〔(Interview: Ann Magnuson )〕 She attended Holz Elementary〔(Performance artists talking in the eighties: sex, food, money/fame, ritual/death ), Linda Montano. Univ. of California Press. 2000〕 and George Washington High School in Charleston. After graduating from Denison University in 1978, she moved to New York City, New York and was a DJ and performer at Club 57 and the Mudd Club in Manhattan circa 1979 through the early 1980s, while pursuing a performance career on varied fronts. She created such characters as "Anoushka", a Soviet lounge singer, wearing a wig backwards and singing mock-Russian lyrics to pop music standards, and separately sang in an all-girl percussion group, Pulsallama,〔(''Dxyplotation'' #5 )〕 whose 1982 single "The Devil Lives In My Husband's Body" was a housewife's lament of a spouse who appears to be possessed. Later, in the 1990s, Magnuson fronted the satirical faux-heavy metal band Vulcan Death Grip. In an interview for the 2002 WETA-TV-PBS special ''Lance Loud! A Death in An American Family'', Magnuson credited the idea of Loud — a member of an all-American family filmed day-in/day-out for the landmark PBS documentary ''An American Family'', who came out as gay during the course of that documentary miniseries — with inspiring her to leave West Virginia for New York: Magnuson made her film debut in the 1982 film ''Vortex''. In the late '70s and early '80s, Magnuson ran Club 57, in New York City's East Village. The club was located in the basement of the Polish National church. It became a center of a world that included Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf, and many others from New York's budding graffiti and downtown scenes.〔 〕 Club 57 was known for its theme nights such as Reggae Miniature Golf, or Model World of Glue Night.〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ann Magnuson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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