Adrienne began her career in 1963 with the San Jose Civic Light Opera. After graduating high school, she traveled with a musical comedy revue, entertaining our servicemen on Army bases throughout Southeast Asia. In 1965, she moved to New York where she made her Broadway debut as Tevye’s second daughter, Hodel, in Fiddler on the Roof. A Tony nomination and a Theatre World Award for her creation of Rizzo in the original Broadway production of Grease led her back to California and the role of Bea Arthur’s daughter, Carol, in the hit series Maude.

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Since then she has become a best selling author, a recording artist, and the star of numerous features, films for television, concert performances, musicals and plays.

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Movie fans know her best for her performances in The Fog, Escape From New York, Creepshow, Swamp Thing, Back to School, and Cannonball Run. She appeared in the Academy Award winning ARGO.  Her recent releases include The Demon Detective and the short film Oddities.

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Adrienne has a Golden Globe nomination and over 450 screen performances to her credit. She starred as Ruthie, the Snake Dancer, on HBO’s fascinating series, Carnivale. She was Oswald’s mom on Drew Carey, Victoria Grayson’s mom on Revenge, and Venus’s mom on Sons of Anarchy. Daytime viewers know her as Suzanne Stanwyck on General Hospital. Her recent television appearances include 9-1-1, American Horror Stories, Hustlers Take All for TUBI, two Netflix  series:  A.J. and the Queen and Cowboy Be-bop,  Harlan Coben’s Shelter for Prime, and Duster from J.J. Abrams for HBOMax.

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Having starred in over 25 theatrical productions in the U.S. and Canada, Adrienne spent most of 2015 playing Berthe, Pippin’s grandmother, in the National Tour of Pippin, singing “No Time At All” as she hung upside down from a trapeze 15 feet in the air – no net.

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Off camera, Adrienne is the voice of Catwoman in Batman, The Animated Series, Ms. Simone in Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island,  Ginny’s Mom in Curious George Go West, Go Wild, and Sally Jupiter in Watchmen.  She can be heard in a myriad of video games: God of War, Halo 4, and Fallout 76 among them. She also provides narration for the visually impaired on many films, documentaries, and television series; it’s one of her favorite forms of voiceover work.

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Adrienne is the author of four books: the best-selling memoir There Are Worse Things I Could Do; the urban fantasy Vampyres of Hollywood and its comedy romance sequels, Love Bites and Make Me Dead. She co-authored and edited Grease…Tell Me More, Tell Me More.  

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Adrienne just finished filming the horror thriller Oddities, bringing her character from the short to life in a whole new world.