Robyn Griggs, best known for her roles in the soap operas Another World and One Life to Live, has died at age 49.
Her death was announced on her Facebook page on Saturday. The actress has previously revealed her diagnosis with cervical cancer, saying last month she had four new tumors.
Griggs played Stephanie Hobart on One Life to Live, debuting in April 1991 and lasting six episodes. From that, she moved to Another World, where she played Maggie Cory for two years.
Born on April 30, 1973, in Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania, she first appeared in major media on Nickelodeon’s Rated K, which featured youngsters reviewing films. It ran from 1986-88.
She later appeared in the films Severe Injuries (2003), Dead Clowns (2004), The Absence of Light (2006) and Hellweek (2010).
Griggs received her cancer diagnosis in 2020. She was in hospice care at the time of her death. She had been using the name Robyn Griggs Wiley in recent years.
Her death was announced on her Facebook page on Saturday. The actress has previously revealed her diagnosis with cervical cancer, saying last month she had four new tumors.
Griggs played Stephanie Hobart on One Life to Live, debuting in April 1991 and lasting six episodes. From that, she moved to Another World, where she played Maggie Cory for two years.
Born on April 30, 1973, in Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania, she first appeared in major media on Nickelodeon’s Rated K, which featured youngsters reviewing films. It ran from 1986-88.
She later appeared in the films Severe Injuries (2003), Dead Clowns (2004), The Absence of Light (2006) and Hellweek (2010).
Griggs received her cancer diagnosis in 2020. She was in hospice care at the time of her death. She had been using the name Robyn Griggs Wiley in recent years.
- 8/14/2022
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
by Colleen Wanglund, MoreHorror.com
February was Women in Horror Recognition Month and there are plenty of women that we recognize in horror year round.
Consider the “Scream Queens” we all know and love—Michelle Bauer, Janet Leigh, Jamie Lee Curtis, Linnea Quigley, Marilyn Burns, Elsa Lanchester, Brinke Stevens, Camille Keaton, Sybil Danning, Ingrid Pitt, Barbara Steele, Fay Wray, and Beverly Garland.
But there are countless other women, actresses, writers, directors, who you may not know and don’t get proper recognition.
Here's a short list of some female directors that deserve to be mentioned.
Barbara Peters - Humanoids From The Deep (1980)
Katt Shea - Stripped To Kill (1987), Dance Of The Damned (1988), Poison Ivy (1992)
Ida Lupino - The Hitch Hiker (1953)
Elizabeth Fies - The Commune (2009)
Jennifer Chambers Lynch - Boxing Helena (1993)
Fran Robel Kuzui - Buffy The Vampire Slayer 1992)
Kei Fujiwara - Organ (1996)
Antonia Bird - Ravenous (1999)
Jen and Sylvia Soska...
February was Women in Horror Recognition Month and there are plenty of women that we recognize in horror year round.
Consider the “Scream Queens” we all know and love—Michelle Bauer, Janet Leigh, Jamie Lee Curtis, Linnea Quigley, Marilyn Burns, Elsa Lanchester, Brinke Stevens, Camille Keaton, Sybil Danning, Ingrid Pitt, Barbara Steele, Fay Wray, and Beverly Garland.
But there are countless other women, actresses, writers, directors, who you may not know and don’t get proper recognition.
Here's a short list of some female directors that deserve to be mentioned.
Barbara Peters - Humanoids From The Deep (1980)
Katt Shea - Stripped To Kill (1987), Dance Of The Damned (1988), Poison Ivy (1992)
Ida Lupino - The Hitch Hiker (1953)
Elizabeth Fies - The Commune (2009)
Jennifer Chambers Lynch - Boxing Helena (1993)
Fran Robel Kuzui - Buffy The Vampire Slayer 1992)
Kei Fujiwara - Organ (1996)
Antonia Bird - Ravenous (1999)
Jen and Sylvia Soska...
- 3/1/2012
- by admin
- MoreHorror
Pennsylvania-based independent production company Happy Cloud Pictures is set to begin production on its sixth feature film, Razor Days, a grim story of survival and revenge starring Amy Lynn Best and Debbie Rochon.
Razor Days represents quite a departure from the hybrid films Happy Cloud is known for (i.e., the “zombie-noir” The Resurrection Game, the meta-fictional Splatter Movie: The Director’s Cut, the horror-comedies Severe Injuries and Demon Divas and the Lanes of Damnations) and is set in the very real world.
From the Press Release:
Razor Days tells the story of three women, each a survivor of horrific violence, who bond together first for support and then to exact revenge on those responsible for their horrific pasts, including a group of cannibalistic “weekend warriors”. This gritty, character-driven thriller begins production in mid-November.
“We’ve been developing this script for six or seven years now,” says writer-director Mike Watt.
Razor Days represents quite a departure from the hybrid films Happy Cloud is known for (i.e., the “zombie-noir” The Resurrection Game, the meta-fictional Splatter Movie: The Director’s Cut, the horror-comedies Severe Injuries and Demon Divas and the Lanes of Damnations) and is set in the very real world.
From the Press Release:
Razor Days tells the story of three women, each a survivor of horrific violence, who bond together first for support and then to exact revenge on those responsible for their horrific pasts, including a group of cannibalistic “weekend warriors”. This gritty, character-driven thriller begins production in mid-November.
“We’ve been developing this script for six or seven years now,” says writer-director Mike Watt.
- 11/6/2010
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
Award-winning short filmmaker David Karges gave us the scoop that he has secured backing for his first feature, the horror movie Dark Karma, and has signed Fangoria Radio’s own Debbie Rochon for the lead. Robyn Griggs, another actress with a long string of genre credits (including turns opposite Rochon in November Son, Severe Injuries and Dead Clowns) will co-star.
Rochon will star in the flick as Karma Kaplan, a B-movie actress who wakes up in her apartment after a night celebrating a “Scream Queen of the Year” award. With a broken ankle and no memory of the previous evening’s events, she is visited by a succession of friends (including a “repressed and submissive, co-dependent” woman named Rhianna, to be played by Griggs) who assure her that she’s simply suffering an alcohol-induced blackout. But she begins to realize that her reality is breaking down, leading her into a psychotic state.
Rochon will star in the flick as Karma Kaplan, a B-movie actress who wakes up in her apartment after a night celebrating a “Scream Queen of the Year” award. With a broken ankle and no memory of the previous evening’s events, she is visited by a succession of friends (including a “repressed and submissive, co-dependent” woman named Rhianna, to be played by Griggs) who assure her that she’s simply suffering an alcohol-induced blackout. But she begins to realize that her reality is breaking down, leading her into a psychotic state.
- 8/25/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
- Fangoria
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