Best supporting actress of 1980 (no order)

by salvadoras | created - 05 Feb 2011 | updated - 05 Mar 2023 | Public

1. Betsy Palmer

Actress | Friday the 13th

Betsy Palmer was probably best known for playing Jason Voorhees' mother in the horror film Friday the 13th (1980), but her career as an actress began many years before.

Palmer was born Patricia Betsy Hrunek in East Chicago, Indiana, to Marie (née Love), who launched the Chicago Business College, and...

for "Friday the 13th"

2. Denise Grey

Actress | La boum 2

Denise Grey was born on September 17, 1896 in Chatillon, Valle d'Aosta, Italy. She was an actress, known for The Party 2 (1982), The Party (1980) and Devil in the Flesh (1947). She was married to Charles Henri Dunkel. She died on January 13, 1996 in Paris, France.

for "The party"

for "Vengos: the crazy kamikaze"

4. Nancy Parsons

Actress | Porky's

Nancy Parsons was born in Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota, to Mary Margaret née Samsa and Charles Walter Parsons. She had two siblings -- Mary Jean Parsons and Theresa Mae Macrae née Parsons. When she was seventeen, her father remarried Genevieve Stack and moved with the three girls to South Pasadena, ...

for "Motel hell"

5. Adrienne Barbeau

Actress | Escape from New York

Adrienne Jo Barbeau is an American actress and author best known for her roles on the sitcom Maude (1972) and in horror films, especially those directed by John Carpenter, with whom she was once married. She was born on June 11, 1945 in Sacramento, California, the daughter of an executive for Mobil...

for "The fog"



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