Athena Massey

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Athena Massey
Occupation(s)Actress
model
Years active1991-2001
Known forUndercover Heat
Shadow of a Scream
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Athena Massey is an American actress and model best known for starring in a series of "B" pictures in the 1990s, including some for Roger Corman. [1] [2] [3] Massey was a model before becoming an actress, and moved into leads with the erotic thriller Undercover (1995) for Gregory Dark although she later said she regretted this as it typecast her and she turned down a number of subsequent offers to make erotic thrillers. [4]

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Massey was going to make a film for Corman in Ireland called Desdemona and Othello playing Bianca in an adaptation of Othello, but the project fell over shortly before filming. [5]

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  1. Schiff, Laura (March 1998). "Attactions fatale". Femme Fatales. Vol. 6, no. 9. p. 4. Retrieved 20 March 2025.
  2. "Attraction fetale". Femme Fetale. Vol. 5, no. 5. November 1996. p. 6. Retrieved 20 March 2025.
  3. Granger, Damien (2001). "Pin up Athena Massey". Impact. No. 87. p. 50. Retrieved 19 March 2025. (in French)
  4. Eby p 12
  5. Kinkade p 43
  6. "Athena Massey Interview". The Place to Be: A Seinfeld podcast. 23 June 2022. Retrieved 20 March 2025.
  7. Briggs, Joe Bob (29 August 1997). "See this sexy serial-killer flick in the name of cinema science". The Orlando Sentinel. p. 181.
  8. Schiff, Laura (August 1997). "Attactions fatale". Femme Fatales. p. 4. Retrieved 20 March 2025.