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Pia Zadora
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Born: May 4, 1954
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Pia Zadora was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA.
She is of Polish and Italian descent. She adapted part of her mother's maiden name (Zadorowski) as her stage name. She appeared as a child actress with legendary Broadway star Tallulah Bankhead in Midgie Purvis.
Her first film appearance was in 1964's infamous Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, as Girmar, a young Martian girl.
She won a Golden Globe as 1982's "Most Promising New Star," but also won "Worst New Star" in the 1982 Golden Raspberry Awards. She starred in the 1983 film The Lonely Lady. She won the now defunct "Best New Star of the Year" Golden Globe for the film Butterfly despite the fact that she actually made her acting debut eight years earlier.
She has attained some success as a singer, and has had several hit singles throughout the world. In 1984, she received a nomination for a Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. Her cover version of the Shirley Ellis hit, "The Clapping Song", reached the U.S. Top 40 in 1983, and she had a minor hit with a duet with Jermaine Jackson titled "When The Rain Begins To Fall" in 1984 which she performed with Jermaine in the movie "Voyage Of The Rock Aliens" in which Zadora played a lead role. She released Pia & Phil, an album of standards with the London Philharmonic in 1987. In 1988, she teamed with famed producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis and released an album entitled "When the Lights Go Out."
Later in 1994 Zadora played a small role in Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult in the final act in a comedy sketch as she sang in the Academy Awards.
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