Athena Massey | |
|---|---|
| Occupation(s) | Actress model |
| Years active | 1991-2001 |
| Known for | Undercover Heat Shadow of a Scream Star Portal |
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; she later said she regretted this as it typecast her and she turned down a number of subsequent offers to make erotic thrillers. [4] The film was described in Sight and Sound magazine as "mainstream exploitation at its most unabashed." [5]
Massey co starred with Don Wilson in two action films, Virtual Combat and CyberTracker 2. She 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. She played the lead in other films for Corman in Ireland such as Shadow of a Scream and Star Portal, as well as making Termination Man for Corman in the Ukraine. [6]