| Net Worth: | $4 Million |
|---|---|
| Date of birth: | September 17, 1951 (73 years old) |
| Gender: | Female |
| Profession: | Movie Actress |
| Nationality: | — |
Cassandra was born September 17, 1951 in Manhattan, Kansas. She’s natural redhead but she gained a lot of fame when she colored her hair black and wore gothic costume with hot cleavage. She hosted Elvira’s Movie Macabre in this outfit. Young Peterson started her career as a go-go dancer in a bar. After finishing school, Peterson moved to Las Vegas and became showgirl. She had some smaller roles in various movies but her biggest success was character of Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. In younger years, Cassandra also often posed nude and her fans were mesmerized by her flawless curves and body measurements. Her natural bra size was already pretty large but later, Peterson went through plastic surgery that further enhanced her bust.
Career
Cassandra Peterson signed a contract with Viva Las Vegas when she was just 17 years old, to work as a showgirl in Hotel ‘The Dunes’. In the early seventies, she moved to Italy and worked in Italian Bands ‘Latins 80′ and ‘The Snails.’
Personal Life
She was married to Mark Pierson from 1981 to 2003. The couple had one daughter, Sadie.
She had a small part in Diamonds are Forever with Sean Connery.
Quotes
“Horror, for me, has to involve some sort of fantasy. Horror is something that is in your dreams or your nightmares.”
— Cassandra Peterson
“Every year, I have to spend another hour working out. Pretty soon I’ll be spending eight hours working out just to fit in the costume. I have the feeling that the minute I stop doing the character, boom, Roseanne Barr.”
— Cassandra Peterson
“I am very, very anti-slasher.”
— Cassandra Peterson
“People think being Elvira is a lot of fun – and it is – but I was doing a lot more bizarre stuff before then, just being a dancer and a showgirl and traveling around Italy in a band and working for Playboy Club, and later being a model and meeting a million and one people and being kind of a groupie… It’s all been really interesting.”
— Cassandra Peterson
“How would Elvira run the state of California? Well, there isn’t much I could do that is worse than what Arnold Schwarzenegger has done. Running it into the damn ground. If I was running the whole nation? I would have free Netflix movies for everyone.”
— Cassandra Peterson