Lori Petty Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
After this feisty, kinetic, highly offbeat actress from Chattanooga, Tennessee, broke into TV in the 1980s, she immediately set herself apart from the norm with the mini-movie Bates Motel (1987). This rather inauspicious beginning would also set Lori Petty off on a career as a fighter and a misfit, types for which she would be best known. She ...
Full Name
Lori Petty
Net Worth
$5 million
Date Of Birth
October 14, 1963
Place Of Birth
Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
Height
1.72 m
Occupation
Actress, film director, screenwriter
Profession
Screenwriter, Film director, Actor, Graphic designer
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
Movies
Tank Girl, Point Break, A League of Their Own, The Poker House, Free Willy, Cadillac Man, Prey for Rock & Roll, In the Army Now, The Glass Shield, Poetic Justice, Relax...It's Just Sex, Bates Motel, Route 666, Chasing 3000, The Karate Dog, Clubland, Countdown, MacArthur Park, Blood Money, Firetrap, ...
TV Shows
Brimstone, Lush Life, Booker, The Thorns
Star Sign
Libra
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Quote
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[on the effect The Poker House rape scene had on its viewers] I had a girl come up to me, and she's like "I'm a rape survivor." I said, "No you're not. Stop that." She's like, "What?" She's 17 and came up to me after the movie. She said, "I was raped at 14." I said, "That stupid ass man did a fucked up thing. It has nothing to do with you. You are not tarnished, you are not changed, you are fine. He's fucked up. You're fine." Her eyes opened.
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Fact
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Gallery Exhibition "Everyone's Gone to the Moon" March 1, 2006 Deborah Page Gallery 1028 Montana Ave., Santa Monica. [March 2006]
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Designing Positive Clothing via Internet as well as retail shops [April 2004]
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In 1998 she appeared in the memorable "Go Baby Go" commercials, promoting horse racing for the National Thoroughbred Racing Association. Many thought the ads attention-grabbing and effective, but wealthy and powerful members of the association viewed the ads with disdain, deriding Petty as looking like a strung-out malnourished Lesbian, not the image they wanted to associate with their sport. The Petty ads were quickly dropped in favor of ads featuring Rip Torn.
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Designs Positive message clothing.
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Sister, Lisa.
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Was originally cast as the main actress in Demolition Man (1993), but there were problems, and Sandra Bullock was cast instead.
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Attended North High School, Sioux City, Iowa, where she was involved in Yearbook and speech/debate.
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She was the first female editor of the North High School newspaper and graduated in 1982.
$5 million
