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Ann Magnuson is an actress, performance artist, and nightclub performer from the United States. She was born January 4, 1956 in Charleston, West Virginia.

As an actress, she is probably most recognized from her lead role in the film Making Mr. Right, but she seems to have made a career of memorable cameos. A real-life Downtown fixture during the 80's, she was the Cigarette Girl in the East Village-set Desperately Seeking Susan with Madonna, a snarly real estate agent with Jodie Foster in Panic Room, David Bowie's sexy victim in The Hunger, a madam in Tank Girl, Mel Gibson's "money junkie" ex-wife in Tequila Sunrise and Tom Berenger's estranged but horny ex-girlfriend in Love at Large. She also played a secretary in Clear and Present Danger and appeared in Cabin Boy. She was a regular on the sitcoms Anything But Love and Wanda at Large.

Magnuson has a sizeable underground following due to her status as lead vocalist of the band Bongwater, a collaboration with notorious NYC musician/producer Kramer, founder of Shimmy Disc and producer of literally hundreds of bands and artists who defined the music of the era. She wrote most of the lyrics for their landmark 1991 album The Power of Pussy, while Kramer composed the music. Magnuson also performed in a short lived all girl percussion group, "Pulsallama", which produced a 1982 single "The Devil Lives In My Husband's Body", a housewife's lament of a husband that appears to be possessed but is in fact suffering from Tourette's Syndrome (...our insurance doesn't cover it!!!).

Between 1979 and 1989 she managed Club 57.

She is a graduate of Denison University, class of 1978.

[Official Site]

Solo Albums

• The Luv Show

Filmography

• Open House (2004)
• Ghostlight (2003)
• The United States of Leland (2003)
• Night at the Golden Eagle (2002)
• Panic Room (2002)
• Glitter (2001)
• The Caveman's Valentine (2001)
• Housebound (2000)
• Love & Sex (2000)
• Friends & Lovers (1999)
• I Woke Up Early the Day I Died(1998)
• Small Soldiers (1998)
• Hugo Pool (1997)
• Still Breathing (1997)
• Levitation (1997)
• Before and After (1996)
• Tank Girl (1995)
• Clear and Present Danger (1994)
• Cabin Boy (1994)
• Love at Large (1990)
• Checking Out (1989)
• Tequila Sunrise (1988)
• Mondo New York (1988)
• A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon]] (1988)
• Macaroni & Me (1988)
• Making Mr. Right (1987)
• The Critical Years (1987)
• Sleepwalk (1986)
• Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
• Perfect Strangers (1984)
• The Hunger (1983)
• Vortex (1982)

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