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Louise Robey

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Louise Robey
Born
Louise Anne Beris Fiona Robey

Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Other namesLouise Ann Robey
Robey
Lady Burford
Louise Burford
Louise, Countess of Burford
Louise Beauclerk
EducationSt Leonards School
Occupation(s)Singer, actress, model
Years active1979–present
Spouses
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(m. 1994; div. 2001)​
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(m. 2008; died 2010)​
Children1

Louise Anne Beris[a] Fiona Robey is a Canadian retired actress, singer and model. During much of her career, she used only her last name Robey as a stage name. She is best known for her role as Micki Foster in the television series Friday the 13th: The Series (1987–1990).

Early life and education

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Robey was born in Montreal, Quebec. Her father, Colonel Malcolm Vernon Robey,[3] was a pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force, and her mother was a former London stage actress.[4]

Robey was raised and educated throughout Europe, France, Italy, Norway, Scotland, Canada and West Germany,[4] learning to speak four languages.[5] She attended St Leonards School in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.[4][6] She is a graduate of Elmwood School in Ottawa.[5]

Career

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Singing, acting, modelling

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After high school, Robey travelled to Aix-en-Provence. French photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue spotted her sunbathing at a hotel pool, took her photograph, and invited her to become a model.[7][4][8] Lartigue photographed Robey for Paris Match and Vogue Paris. Robey moved to Paris, where she swiftly attained success as a fashion model.[7] She also began a music career, busking in the streets and fronting the ska-punk band Louise and the Creeps signed to CBS France and UK by president Alain Levy.[6] In the early 1980s, Robey moved to New York City, where she worked as a catwalk model earning $5,000 a day[9] and appeared in advertising campaigns for Maybelline, Jordache, Revlon, L'Oreal and Clairol amongst many others. She has appeared in many magazines from Vogue to Cosmopolitan internationally.[10]

Although Louise and the Creeps were signed to a record deal with CBS France/UK by CBS head Alain Levy, under the wing of Andy Warhol and Michael Butler [producer of the musical Hair], and offered a signing by Chris Blackwell, Island records, they broke up in New York before recording an album. In 1984, Robey landed a solo record deal with CBS/Sony and recorded a self-titled album. Six singles from the album were released. One single, a cover of the song "One Night in Bangkok" from the musical Chess, became an international hit.[7] Robey's version of the song spent three weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 in March 1985, peaking at No. 77.[11] It fared much better on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart, peaking at No.3.[12]She signed to Chrysalis records in 1986 and had a hit dance record "I Surrender/Hungry For You Boy".

Acting and current work

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While working as a musician, Robey continued to model and also became involved in improvisational comedy, performing with the famed troupe M.I.C.E.[Mike's improv comedy experiment] in theatres and clubs throughout California. She also appeared in stage roles in dinner theater. In 1986, Robey had small roles in the films The Money Pit and Raw Deal. The following year, she beat out 300-plus other actresses for the role of Michelle "Micki" Foster, niece of antiques dealer Lewis Vendredi, on the syndicated science-fiction series Friday the 13th: The Series, which Frank Mancuso Jr. produced. Foster is a young woman who inherits an antique shop from Lewis Vendredi (R. G. Armstrong), her estranged uncle. When the antiques in the shop prove to have been cursed by the devil, Foster, Ryan Dallion (John D. LeMay), her cousin by marriage, and family friend Jack Marshak (Chris Wiggins) begin to hunt down and recover the antiques before they can kill or cause the damnations of the souls of anyone else. The show, which was filmed in Toronto,[4] was a hit with audiences and became one of the top-three syndicated dramas airing at the time, second only to Star Trek.[8] She was nominated for best actress by the Saturn Awards. The sophisticated glamour and feisty charm Robey imparted to the character earned the show a cult following.[13] She later recalled convincing the producers to give Foster her fashion-forward and striking look.[13]

Personal life

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In 1993, Robey began dating Charles Beauclerk, Earl of Burford, direct descendant of King Charles II and his mistress, actress Nell Gwynn. The two met after Lord Burford gave a lecture about one of his relatives, the 17th Earl of Oxford, who is one of several authors named in the Shakespeare authorship question. The couple married on 29 December 1994 at St. Winifreds Church in Manaton, Dartmoor. At the time of the marriage, Robey was pregnant with the couple's child. Their son James Malcolm Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk, Lord Vere, Baron of Hanworth was born in Boston on 2 August 1995 and next in line as the Earl of Burford. The couple lived in Ipswich and Hadleigh, Suffolk, before divorcing in 2001.[9]

In 2008, she married fashion photographer Stan Shaffer.[14][better source needed] Shaffer died on 1 June 2010.

Filmography

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Year Title Role Notes
1986 The Money Pit Female Vocalist Credited as Robey
1986 Raw Deal Lamanski's Girl Credited as Robey
1987–1990 Friday the 13th: The Series Micki Foster 72 episodes
Credited as Robey
1992 Play Nice Jill Crane / Rapunzel Credited as Robey (final film role)

Discography

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Albums

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  • Robey (1985, CBS/Sony)
  • Music Anthology... Part 1: 1979-2009 (2011, Amazon/TuneCore Records)

Singles

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Year Title US Dance
1984 "One Night in Bangkok" 77 3
1985 "Moth to a Flame" – –
1985 "Killer Instinct" – 34
1986 "I Surrender" – 47
1987 "Tighter, Tighter" – –
1988 "Flight of the Phoenix" (with Cerrone) – –
2009 "Pure Love/Baby Insane" (with Lima Djari) – –
2011 "Like a Woman Scorned" – –
2013 "Take it to the Top" (with Lovari) – –

Soundtracks

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Notes

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  1. ^ aka "Beatrice"[1][2]

References

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  1. ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 3, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 3459
  2. ^ Debrett's People of Today, Debrett's Peerage Ltd, 2006, p. 232
  3. ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 3, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 3459
  4. ^ a b c d e Buck, Jerry (17 June 1988). "'Friday the 13th' was good luck for Robey". Daily News. Bowling Green, Kentucky. p. 11. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
  5. ^ a b Samara 1978. Elmwood School. 1978. p. 16.
  6. ^ a b "Louise Robey « Artists « Revenge of the 80s Radio". 28 February 2009. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
  7. ^ a b c Girdner, Bill (1 July 1988). "Strange TV Series Mirrors Star's Life: Robey, 26, plays lead in Friday the 13th". The Globe and Mail. p. C1.
  8. ^ a b "Robey: Bewitching on and off-camera". Observer-Reporter. Washington, Pennsylvania. 15 January 1989. p. 92. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
  9. ^ a b Sayid, Ruki (14 August 2001). "M Profile: Lady Burford – The rock chick and the Earl; She was the Bohemian musician and actress who married one of England's most controversial aristocrats. But when these wildly different worlds collided, the fallout tore her life apart". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 9 April 2015 – via The Free Library.
  10. ^ "'Friday the 13th' star has a background in modelling, music". Poughkeepsie Journal. 31 July 1988. p. 8F.
  11. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1991). The Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Eighties (1st ed.). Menomonee, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. p. 9 March 1985. ISBN 0-89820-079-2.
  12. ^ "Artist Chart History - Robey". AllMusic. Retrieved 7 August 2011.
  13. ^ a b Castro, Hector (10 February 2009). "Campy '80s show 'Friday the 13th' has a devoted cult of fans". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
  14. ^ "ArtistsNews World-Renowned Photographer Stan Shaffer Passes". Revenge of the 80s Radio. 11 June 2010. Archived from the original on 3 March 2024. Retrieved 8 November 2024.
  • "Burke's Peerage and Baronetage"

Further reading

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