| Moon Zappa | |
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| Born | September 28, 1967 New York City |
Moon Unit Zappa (born September 28, 1967) is an American actress, musician and author. She goes by the name Moon Zappa; "Unit" is her middle name.
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Personal life
Zappa was born in New York City, the eldest child of Adelaide Gail Sloatman, who worked in business, and musician Frank Zappa.[1] She has three younger siblings, Dweezil, Ahmet, and Diva. Zappa's father was of Sicilian, Greek-Arab and French descent and her mother was of Danish, French, Irish and Portuguese ancestry.[2] She married Matchbox Twenty drummer and guitarist, Paul Doucette, in June of 2002. They have one child, Mathilda Plum Doucette, born December 21, 2004.
Career
Apart from the novelty of her and her siblings' names, she first came to public attention at the age of fourteen, in 1982, as a vocalist on her father's hit single "Valley Girl". The song featured Moon Unit Zappa delivering a monologue in 'val-speak', a collection of slang terms popular in the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles. In the mid-80s, Moon and her brother were frequent guest VJs on MTV. Next to "Dancin' Fool", "Valley Girl" was Frank Zappa's biggest hit in the United States, and popularized phrases such as "grody to the max" and "gag me with a spoon". The song appeared on Zappa's 1982 album Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch. She later made another recording titled "My Mother Is a Space Cadet", with guitar accompaniment by her brother Dweezil. She also guest starred on The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
As an adult she has worked as a stand-up comic, magazine writer, and actress in the films National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985), Spirit of '76 and the television sitcom Normal Life. She also appeared as a burka-clad Muslim woman in one episode of Curb your Enthusiasm and on an episode ("Pampered to a Pulp") of Roseanne.[3]
She is the author of the novel America, the Beautiful, published in 2001.[4] and articles in major periodicals.[5]
References
- ^ Moon Unit Zappa Biography (1967-)
- ^ Miles, Barry (2004). Zappa. Grove Press. pp. 124. ISBN080211783X. http://books.google.com/books?id=2pPgG9AXjN4C&printsec=frontcover.
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0688854/
- ^ http://www.amazon.com/America-Beautiful-Moon-Unit-Zappa/dp/0743213831
- ^ Zappa, Moon Unit (2001-11-18), "ONE STREET AT A TIME; Positively Third Street", The New York Times, http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B03E6D91338F93BA25752C1A9679C8B63, retrieved 2008-11-04
External links
- Moon Zappa's Website
- Moon Unit Zappa on NNDB
- Moon Zappa at the Internet Movie Database
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