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Cassandra Gay Peterson [1] is an American actress best known for her portrayal of the horror hostess character Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. Peterson gained fame on Los Angeles television station KHJ-TV in her stage persona as Elvira, hosting Elvira's Movie Macabre, a weekly B movie presentation.
- Cassandra Peterson saw her first horror movie—William Castle’s House On Haunted Hill—when she was just a kid. In an interview for David Weiner’s 2019 documentary In Search of Darkness, Peterson recalled seeing the 1959 Vincent Price shocker when she was very young, maybe 7 or 8 years old, and being “gobsmacked.”
- Cassandra Peterson credits a terrible childhood injury with setting her on the path to creating Elvira. Peterson suffered horrific, near-fatal third degrees burns after overturning a pot of boiling water when she was 18 months old.
- Cassandra Peterson became a Las Vegas showgirl when she was just 17 years old. When Peterson was a teenager, one of her idols was Ann-Margret, the Swedish-American singer, dancer, and actress who co-starred with Elvis Presley in 1964’s Viva Las Vegas.
- Cassandra Peterson was an extra in a James Bond movie. When she was working as a dancer with Vive Les Girls, Peterson and several of her colleagues served as extras in the 1971 James Bond movie Diamonds Are Forever.
Actress: Elvira: Mistress of the Dark. Cassandra Peterson was born in Manhattan, Kansas, and grew up in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She began her career at age 17 as the youngest showgirl in Las Vegas history in the show "Vive Les Girls" at the Dunes Hotel.
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- Manhattan, Kansas, USA
Cassandra Peterson and Jake Weber in Medium (2005)- Cassandra Peterson in The Paragon of Comedy (1983)
- Cassandra Peterson, Sandy Helberg, and John Paragon in The Paragon of Comedy (1983)
- Cassandra Peterson and John Paragon in The Paragon of Comedy (1983)
- Cassandra Peterson in Sundays with Sid (2020)
- Cassandra Peterson in Episode #1.2 (1982)
- Cassandra Peterson in Elvira's Haunted Hills (2001)
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Elvira’s reign as ‘Queen of Halloween’ has spanned more than three decades and includes an IMAX movie, music CDs, books and more than a thousand licensed products. She co-wrote and starred in the feature films Elvira, Mistress of the Dark and Elvira’s Haunted Hills.
Sep 22, 2021 · Elvira, the famed “Mistress of the Dark,” has shared she identifies as a member of the LGBTQ+ community. The actress, who was born Cassandra Peterson, shared her love story in her new...
Sep 30, 1988 · "Elvira: Mistress of the Dark" is a 1988 comedy, horror movie - upon arriving in a small town where Elvira has inherited a rundown mansion, the famous horror host must battle an evil uncle, and townspeople who want her burned at the stake.
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