Best Known As: Co-star of Gene Simmons Family Jewels
First known as Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Year in 1982, Shannon Tweed went on to carve out a career in B movies and reality TV. Tweed is the longtime companion of rock star Gene Simmons of the group KISS. (His official site at one time described them as "happily unmarried," though the pair were finally married on 1 October 2011.) Shannon Tweed and Gene Simmons began starring together in the TV reality show Gene Simmons Family Jewels in 2006. Her films have included Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death (1989), Possessed by the Night (1994), and Bimbo Movie Bash (1997). Her autobiography, Kiss and Tell, was published in 2006.
Shannon Tweed and Gene Simmons have two children together: Nick (b. 22 January 1989) and Sophie (b. 7 July 1992).
The Standard Operating Procedure of those anonymous young lovelies chosen as Playboy's Playmate of the Month is to make an extremely brief flurry of au naturel movie appearances before rapidly fading into the sunset. Such was not the case of very blonde, very buxom Shannon Tweed. After being anointed Playmate of the Month and Playmate of the Year, the Canadian-born Tweed was able to sustain her film career for nearly two decades. Her come-hither looks, cascading blonde hair, and divine figure admittedly contributed to her durability, but her strongest suit was her genuine acting ability and willingness to poke fun at her image. The actress offered a comedy performance worthy of a Colbert or Lombard as the fetchingly undraped star of the Apocalypse Now spoof Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death (1990), while she was consistently superior to her material (and most of her co-stars, female and male) in the Night Eyes and Indecent Behavior films of the 1980s and 1990s. Somewhat more modestly garbed in her television appearances, Tweed has been a regular on the daytime soaper Days of Our Lives, the nighttime serial Falcon Crest (1981-1982 season only, as Diana Hunter), and the raunchy cable-TV sitcom First and Ten. In 1991, she starred as air-service proprietor Sally "Slick" Monroe on the diverting Canadian TV adventure weekly Fly By Night, which ran in rerun form on CBS until 1993. The sister of actress Tracy Tweed, Shannon Tweed has two children with Kiss musician Gene Simmons. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Shannon Lee Tweed (born March 10, 1957)[1] is a Canadian actress and model. One of the most successful actresses of mainstream erotica,[3] she is identified with the genre of the erotic thriller. Tweed lives with her husband Gene Simmons of the band Kiss and their two children.
Tweed was born in St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, to a mink rancher[2] and was raised on a mink ranch in Markland, Newfoundland. Shannon is one of seven children. She also has two younger sisters, Tracy (born May 10, 1965), who is an actress, and Sara Tweed, who lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She has another sister, Kim. Shannon and Tracy shared the screen in the film Night Eyes 3, and have appeared nude together in a Playboy spread. Tracy occasionally makes appearances on Family Jewels. She also has an older brother, Lance, and another brother, Jeff.
After their father was badly injured in a car crash, her mother was left to care for the children on her own while her father was recuperating. Eventually her mother had to sell the ranch to support her seven children. Mrs Tweed did not tell her husband that she had sold the ranch and when he found out, he divorced her. Shannon's mother moved the family to her home town of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Tweed attended Mount Royal Collegiate in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan but never graduated. She became involved in beauty pageants at a young age. In 1978, she was Miss Ottawa and fourth in the Miss Canada Pageant. She won the Miss Canada talent competition (her speciality was singing).[2]
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