Shannon Tweed

Career

In 1978, Tweed was the third runner-up in the Miss Canada Pageant event and won the Miss Canada talent competition for her singing. Tweed and her sister Tracy appeared together in a Playboy spread.

Tweed primarily acted in B movies and in television series such as the HBO comedy 1st & Ten and the prime-time soap opera Falcon Crest, During the 1988-89 season, Tweed was a regular panelist on the Canadian-produced game show The New Liar's Club, which aired in both Canada and the US.

Additionally, Tweed has appeared as a guest on Frasier. She has also lent her voice to the Nickelodeon cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants in the episode "20,000 Patties Under the Sea", which also featured Gene Simmons as a guest.

The first major theatrical film in which Tweed appeared was the horror film Of Unknown Origin (1983). Since then, Tweed has appeared in more than 60 films, including Detroit Rock City, produced by Simmons, in 1999. Tweed and her sister Tracy co-starred in the film Night Eyes 3. She is known as one of the most successful actresses of mainstream erotica. Vanity Fair has described Tweed as "one of home video's most rented erotic thriller goddesses".

Tweed was featured along with her family on the reality TV show Gene Simmons Family Jewels from 2006 until 2012. One of the highlights of the series was Simmons' proposal to her and their subsequent marriage at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. In 2010, an episode of the series was taped in Tweed's former hometown of Saskatoon. During the visit, she was presented with an honorary street sign denoting the (nonexistent) "Tweed Lane". Tourism Saskatoon subsequently requested Saskatoon City Council approve the naming of a real Tweed Lane in her honour. The Council approved the request, and the street is located in the neighbourhood of Rosewood.

Tweed is the narrator of the reality TV show Ex-Wives of Rock.

Personal life

Tweed resided at the Playboy Mansion for approximately 14 months as Playboy founder Hugh Hefner's partner. The relationship coincided with her Playmate appearances and with being named 1982 Playmate of the Year. After 28 years together, the couple wed in an outdoor evening ceremony on the crystal lawn of The Beverly Hills Hotel on October 1, 2011.

Filmography Film

Television Year Film Role Notes 1982 Drop-Out Father Beautiful Woman TV film 1982–1983 Falcon Crest Diana Hunter 21 episodes1983 Fantasy Island Celina Morgan Season 7 episode 7: "The Wedding Picture/Castaways" Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour Herself Panelist 5 episodes1984 The New Mike Hammer Karen Thorsen Season 1 episode 9: "The Perfect Twenty" Family Feud Herself Episode: "Battle of the Perfect 10's: Wilt's Wows vs. Debbies Dudes; Richard's Rosebuds vs. Phyllis Fighters" The First Olympics: Athens 1896 Woman Mini-series Uncredited The Dukes of Hazzard Betty Jo Page Season 7 episode 2: "Welcome, Waylon Jennings" 1984–1987 The Hitchhiker Barbara / Dr. Rita de Roy Season 2 episode 6: "Videodate" Season 4 episode 6: "Doctor's Orders"1985 Three's a Crowd Princess Leanna Episode 20: "King for a Day" Playboy Mid Summer Night's Dream Party 1985 Herself Documentary 1985–1986 Days of Our Lives Savannah Wilder 142 episodes1986 Cagney & Lacey Vicki Barrington Season 6 episode 5: "Role Call" Highway to Heaven Nina Van Slyke Season 3 episode 12: "Oh Lucky Man"1987 The Last Fling Joanne Preston TV film CBS Summer Playhouse Beth Season 1 episode 15: "Sirens" Nine to Five Tiffany Crystal Season 5 episode 1: "Meet Mr. Felb" Ohara Randi Season 2 episode 1: "Y' Wanna Live Forever?" L.A. Law Jocelyn Miller Season 2 episode 1: "The Lung Goodbye" 21 Jump Street Jody Kleinman Season 2 episode 9: "You Oughta Be in Prison" Hooperman Season 1 episode 7: "Hot Wired" Rags to Riches Babe Adair Season 2 episode 9: "Beauty and the Babe" Sex Symbols; Past, Present and Future Herself Documentary1988 Our House Maxine Denton Season 2 episodes 16 and 17: "Trouble in Paradise: Part 1" and "Trouble in Paradise: Part 2" Longarm Sally "Crazy Sally" TV film1989 Dear John Margo Season 1 episode 20: "Margo" Desperado: The Outlaw Wars Uncredited 1989–1991 1st & Ten Kristy Fullbright 30 episodes 1990 Hollywood Dog TV film1991 Tagteam Leona TV film Parker Lewis Can't Lose Ms. Mason Season 2 episode 5: "The Undergraduate" Baywatch Allison Fowles Season 2 episode 11: "If Looks Could Kill" Fly by Night Sally "Slick" Monroe 13 episodes 1992 Civil Wars Luree Season 1 episode 8: "For Better or Perverse" 1993 Matrix Andrea Hopper Episode 2: "To Err Is Human"1994 Hot Line Rebecca Season 1 episodes 5 and 6: ""Payback" and "Payback" Model by Day Shannon TV film1995 Married... with Children Shannon Tweed Season 10 episode 9: "The Two That Got Away" Murder, She Wrote Priscilla LakeSeason 11 episode 15: "Twice Dead" Marker Samantha Kent Episode 12: "Factor X" 1995–2001 Frasier Dr. Honey Snow Season 2 episode 15: "You Scratch My Book..." Season 9 episode 2: "Don Juan in Hell: Part 2" 1996 Pacific Blue Sheila Silver Season 1 episodes 1 and 8: Pilot and "Burnout"1997 Homeboys in Outer Space Delia Episode 18: "The Naked and the Dred, or the Toast of the Town" Wings Emily Palmer Season 8 episode 21: "Oedipus Wrecks" Nash Bridges Bess Season 3 episode 2: "Payback" Assault on Devil's Island Hunter Wiley TV film 1997–1998 The Tom Show Maggie Amross Episodes 2, 12, and 16: "Bad Publicity," "Maggie Returns," and "The Centerfold"1999 Assault on Death Mountain Hunter Wiley TV film Powerplay Jacqueline Knight TV film V.I.P. Herself Season 1 episode 15: "Val on the Run" Beggars and Choosers Shannon Tweed Season 1 episode 8: "Unsafe Sex" Get Real Joanna Parsons Episode 3: "Passages" 2000–2003 The Parkers Sophia Van Lowe Season 1 episode 19: "Moving on Out" Season 3 episode 20: "Mother's Day Blues" Season 5 episode 11: "Out with the Old, in with the New" 2002 My Guide to Becoming a Rock Star Mom 11 episodes2003 Run of the House Ms. Dee Dee Cole Episode 5: "Where There's Smoke, There's Fire" Banzai Herself Uncredited2004 Frasier: Analyzing the Laughter Dr. Honey Snow Uncredited When Playboy Ruled the World Herself Documentary 2006 Playboy: Celebrity Centerfolds Herself Documentary 2006–2012 Gene Simmons Family Jewels Herself 158 episodes 2007 SpongeBob SquarePants Woman Fish Voice Season 5 episode 17: "20,000 Patties Under the Sea/The Battle of Bikini Bottom" 2008 Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? Herself, Audience Member 2009 Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel Herself: Playmate of the Year 1982 / Actress Documentary2010 United States of Tara Knatasha Knightblade Season 2 episode 7: "Dept. of F'd Up Family Services" Bill Zucker's Day with the Simmons Herself2012 How Playboy Changed the World Herself Documentary America's Book of Secrets Herself Season 1 episode 6: "The Playboy Mansion" 2012–2013 Republic of Doyle Frances Lemont Season 3 episode 2: "Head Over Heels" Season 5 episode 7: "Hook, Line and Sinker"2014 Seed Wendy Maybely Season 2 episode 7: "Mother Sucker" Credited as Shannon Tweed-Simmons Canada's Smartest Person Herself, Lie Detector Guest Season 1 episode 6: "#1.6" Credited as Shannon Tweed-Simmons 2013 Ex-Wives of Rock Herself Narrator2014 Shannon & Sophie Herself Executive producer 13 Nights of Elvira Dr. Margo Hunt Episode 1: Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death 2015 Sunday Brunch Set decorator Episode 6: "The Smoking Pistol" 2017 Hell's Kitchen Herself Season 17 episode 4: "Just Letter Cook"