Cherie Currie Biography

Quick Facts

NAME: Cherie Currie
OCCUPATION: Film Actress, Television Actress, Singer
BIRTH DATE: November 30, 1959 (Age: 53)
PLACE OF BIRTH: Los Angeles, California
Full Name: Cherie Ann Currie
AKA: Cherie Currie
ZODIAC SIGN: Sagittarius

Best Known For

Cherie Currie is a singer and actress who fronted the influential band The Runaways.

Quiz

Think you know about Biography?

Answer questions and see how you rank against other players.

Play Now

Print Cite This

Cherie Currie

APA Style

Cherie Currie. (2013). The Biography Channel website. Retrieved 07:06, May 21, 2013, from http://www.biography.com/people/cherie-currie-17169416.

Harvard Style

Cherie Currie. [Internet]. 2013. The Biography Channel website. Available from: http://www.biography.com/people/cherie-currie-17169416 [Accessed 21 May 2013].

MLA Style

"Cherie Currie." 2013. The Biography Channel website. May 21 2013, 07:06 http://www.biography.com/people/cherie-currie-17169416.

MHRA Style

"Cherie Currie," The Biography Channel website, 2013, http://www.biography.com/people/cherie-currie-17169416 [accessed May 21, 2013].

Chicago Style

"Cherie Currie," The Biography Channel website, http://www.biography.com/people/cherie-currie-17169416 (accessed May 21, 2013).

CBE/CSE Style

Cherie Currie [Internet]. The Biography Channel website; 2013 [cited 2013 May 21] Available from: http://www.biography.com/people/cherie-currie-17169416.

Bluebook Style

Cherie Currie, http://www.biography.com/people/cherie-currie-17169416 (last visited May 21, 2013).

AMA Style

Cherie Currie. The Biography Channel website. 2013. Available at: http://www.biography.com/people/cherie-currie-17169416. Accessed May 21, 2013.

While the band's records never topped the charts in the U.S., the group's influence was evident, and in Japan especially the band found some commercial traction.

But the grinding tour schedule took its toll on Currie in particular, and after three records, she decided to leave The Runaways. She didn't, however,

abandon music. In 1980 she recorded an album with her sister for Capitol Records called Messin' With the Boys.

With her new freedom and her name recognition, Currie felt liberated to try other creative endeavors. The same year she teamed up with her sister in the recording studio, Currie was cast opposite Jodie Foster in the movie Foxes. She went on to do additional acting work in movies such as Wavelength (1983) and Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983), as well as appear on television shows such as Murder She Wrote and Matlock. In recent years, Currie has also become an expert chainsaw sculptor.

Currie has had her troubles as well. Alcohol and drug problems gripped her life. She eventually became clean, though, and in a revealing 1989 memoir called Neon Angel, Currie wrote candidly about her life with The Runaways and the years that followed.

In recent years, Currie and her former bandmates have enjoyed a much-deserved renaissance. Much of it was sparked by the 2010 movie about the group, The Runaways. The film tells the true and important story of how Currie and her bandmates blazed a new trail for future female rock musicians and bands like The Bangles and The Go-Gos.

Currie, who became a mother in 1990, lives in Southern California.