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USA (1956 -). Actriz y cantante norteamericana nacida el 4 de Enero de 1956 en Charleston, Virginia Oeste. This pretty, quirky performance artist has also branched out into more mainstream films and television. Arriving in New York in 1978, Magnuson co-founded Club 57, the neo-Dada cabaret, where she and her collaborators (such as Eric Bogosian and Joey Arias) made a name for themselves with their sly brand of comic social commentary—her tribute to Muzak, for instance, which was held in an elevator. Magnuson's one-woman shows played worldwide in the late 1970s and early '80s New York, and her video, Made for TV, was shown on PBS's Alive from Off-Center in 1984. Magnuson's first big-screen appearance was a small role in the crime thriller VORTEX (1982); she went on to play similar parts in THE HUNGER (1983), PERFECT STRANGERS (1984) and DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN (1985). She had a larger role in the fantasy SLEEPWALK (1986), but was still largely unknown to the public-at-large until she starred opposite John Malkovich in Susan Seidelman's comedy CREANDO AL SEÑOR PERFECTO (1987), about a scientist who builds an android boyfriend. From 1989 through 1992, she played an incorrigibly chic magazine editor in TV's critically-acclaimed sitcom Anything But Love (ABC), starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Richard Lewis. Since then, Magnuson has appeared on many TV specials (including, bizarrely, as a judge for the 1995 Miss Universe Pageant) and the ABC-TV movie THE BAREFOOT EXECUTIVE (1995). Onscreen, Magnuson played the older divorcee who seduced River Phoenix in DOS DIAS AGITADOS (1988) and supported Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell in Robert Towne's TRAICION AL AMANECER (1988) and played a six-armed blue-skinned goddess who deflowers Chris Elliott in the flop CABIN BOY (1994). She also appeared in PELIGRO INMINENTE (1994) and Barbet Schroeder's ANTES Y DESPUES (1996), as the grieving mother of a murdered teenage girl. Magnuson has also been featured in the documentaries MONDO NEW YORK (1988) and HEAVY PETTING (1988).
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