Moon Zappa
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| Moon Zappa | |
|---|---|
| Born | Moon Unit Zappa September 28, 1967 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress Author |
| Years active | 1982–present |
| Spouse(s) | Paul Doucette (m. 2002; div. 2014) |
| Children | Mathilda Plum Doucette (b. 2004) |
| Parent(s) | Frank Zappa Gail Zappa |
| Relatives | Dweezil Zappa (brother) Ahmet Zappa (brother) Diva Zappa (sister) |
| Website | http://www.moonzappa.com/ |
Moon Unit Zappa (born September 28, 1967) is an American actress and author.
Personal life
Moon Zappa was born in New York City, the eldest child of Gail (née Sloatman) and musician Frank Zappa.[1] She has three younger siblings, Dweezil, Ahmet, and Diva Muffin. Zappa's father was of Sicilian, Greek-Arab, and French ancestry, and her mother is of French, Irish, and mostly Danish ancestry.[2] Zappa attended Oakwood School in North Hollywood, California. She married Paul Doucette, former drummer and current rhythm guitarist for American pop group Matchbox Twenty, in June 2002. They have one child, Mathilda Plum Doucette, born December 21, 2004. Zappa filed for divorce in January 2012.[3] The divorce was finalized in early 2014. [4] Zappa briefly dated comedian and podcast host Marc Maron.
Career
Apart from the novelty of her and her siblings' names, she first came to public attention in 1982, at the age of 14, as a vocalist on her father's Top 40 hit single, "Valley Girl". The song featured Moon Zappa delivering a monologue in "valleyspeak", a collection of slang terms popular with teenage girls in the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles. In the mid-1980s, Moon and her brother Dweezil were frequent guest VJs on MTV. "Valley Girl" was Frank Zappa's biggest hit in the United States, and popularized phrases from the lyric such as "grody to the max" and "gag me with a spoon". The song appeared on her father'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.
As a child, she acted in the television series CHiPs, The Facts of Life, and the film Nightmares.[1]
As an adult she has worked as a stand-up comic, magazine writer, and actress, appearing in the films National Lampoon's European Vacation and Spirit of '76, the television sitcom Normal Life, and The Super Mario Bros. Super Show. She appeared as a niqab-clad Muslim woman in one episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, as Ted Mosby's cousin Stacy in an episode of How I Met Your Mother, and on an episode ("Pampered to a Pulp") of Roseanne.[5] Most recently, she was the voice of Mrs. Lamber on FOX Broadcasting's Animation Domination High-Def series High School USA!.
In 2000 she appeared as guest vocalist on Kip Winger's third solo album "Songs from the Ocean Floor".
She is the author of the novel America, the Beautiful, published in 2001.[6] She has also written for The New York Times.[7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Moon Unit Zappa Biography (1967–), Filmreference.com
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External links
- Moon Zappa at the Internet Movie Database
- WTF with Marc Maron Podcast - Episode 434 - Moon Zappa mp3
- Zappa Family Album
- Pages using IMDb episode with a different name
- Articles with hCards
- No local image but image on Wikidata
- 1967 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American actresses
- 21st-century American actresses
- Actresses from California
- Actresses from New York City
- American child actresses
- American child singers
- American female singers
- American film actresses
- American people of Danish descent
- American people of French descent
- American people of Portuguese descent
- American people of Sicilian descent
- American stand-up comedians
- American television actresses
- American women comedians
- American women writers
- American artists of Arab descent
- American writers of Arab descent
- American writers of Greek descent
- American writers of Italian descent
- Frank Zappa
- People from the Greater Los Angeles Area
- Actresses of Greek descent
