Cassandra Peterson

Acting · Born 1951-09-17 · Manhattan, Kansas, USA

Biography

Cassandra Peterson is an American actress best known for her on-screen horror hostess character Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. She gained fame on Los Angeles television station KHJ wearing a black, gothic, cleavage-enhancing gown as host of Movie Macabre, a weekly horror movie presentation. Her wickedly vampish appearance is offset by her comical character, quirky/quick-witted personality, and valley girl-type speech.

Known for

• The SF Sketchfest Roast of Bruce Campbell (2023)
• Commitment to Life (2023)
• In Search of Darkness: Part III (2022)
• The Munsters (2022)
• Le Passeur immobile (2021)
• AGFA Mystery Mixtape #1 (2020)
• In Search of Darkness: Part II (2020)
• In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover (2020)
• The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault (2020)
• In Search of Darkness (2019)
• Making Fun: The Story of Funko (2018)
• Too Macabre: The Making of Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (2018)
• To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story (2017)
• Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014)
• Scream Queens: Horror Heroines Exposed (2014)
• Rewind This! (2013)
• Bruno & Earlene Go to Vegas (2013)
• First Period (2013)
• Devil's Night (2011)
• All About Evil (2010)
• Elvira's Movie Macabre: The Satanic Rites Of Dracula (2010)
• Elvira’s Movie Macabre: Night Of The Living Dead (2010)
• Let’s Spend the Night Together: Confessions of Rock’s Greatest Groupies (2010)
• The Boneyard Collection (2008)