Simone Griffeth

Tall, lovely and willowy blonde actress Simone Griffeth was born on April4, 1950 in Savannah, Georgia. Griffeth was a Theater Arts major at theUniversity of South Carolina for three years. While attending collegeSimone wrote, put together and acted in a weekly children's show for aColumbia television station. Griffeth appeared in a TV commercial at agefifteen. She made her film debut with a charming performance as thetitular sweet innocent country lass in the enjoyable redneck exploitationitem "Swamp Girl." She was likewise well cast as another naive hillbillygal in the sordid "Sixteen" and was excellent as David Carradine'senticing co-driver Annie Smith in Paul Bartel's wickedly funny sci-fiblack comedy cult classic "Death Race 2000." Simone was at her sexiest asthe bored wife of a neglectful millionaire in "Hot Target" and was onceagain solid in the entertaining Crown International action opus "ThePatriot." Among the many TV shows Griffeth has done guest spots on are"Silk Stockings," "The Golden Girls," "Magnum, P.I.," "Rip Tide," "T.J.Hooker," "The Dukes of Hazzard," "The Greatest American Hero," "Three'sCompany," "Hawaii Five-O," "The Incredible Hulk," "Starsky and Hutch,"and "The Six Million Dollar Man." Simone Griffeth now teaches acting andworks along with her husband Wayne McDonald as a real estate agent forhigh-end Low Country properties in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.