Deborah van valkenburgh biography
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Deborah van valkenburgh biography
Deborah Van Valkenburgh
American actress
Deborah Van Valkenburgh (born August 29, 1952) is an American actress best known for her screen debut as Mercy in the 1979 cult filmThe Warriors,[2] and her role as Jackie Rush for five seasons (1980–1985) on the television situation comedyToo Close for Comfort.[3] In 2012, she won the Best Supporting Actress in a Fantasy Film award at the PollyGrind Underground Film Festival for the film Road to Hell.[4]
Education
Van Valkenburgh graduated from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, with a BFA in painting and drawing.[5]
Career
She started her acting career on Broadway performing in "Hair".
Van Valkenburgh also appeared in Off-Broadway plays, including Honeybee, The Tempest, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Hay Fever, When Did You last See Your Mother?, Iolanthe, It Ain't Aardvark, and Minutemen.
Besides acting in many New York plays, she has acted in regional and tour