Jewel Shepard

Jewel Shepard is an American writer photographer and actress best known for her roles in movies such as Party Camp 1987 and Return of the Living Dead 1985 Shephard arrived in California in the early 80s where she supported herself by working as a stripper in various Los Angeles strip clubs and modeling for car shoots It was during her time stripping that she met genre filmmaker Dan OBannon After a number of small television roles Shepard broke into film with H B Halickis The Junkman 1982 Roles in over a dozen B movies followed including 1985s The Return of the Living Dead which was directed and written by OBannon In 1992 she capitalized on her Bgirl status by penning Invasion of the BGirls a book of interviews with cult actresses such as Kitten Natividad Linnea Quigley Yvette Vickers Haji and Mary Woronov She has also written for such publications as Premiere Cosmopolitan Details and The Associated Press Her autobiography If Im So Famous How Come Nobodys Ever Heard of Me detailing some of the less glamorous aspects of film making and her experiences working in adult entertainment was published in 1996 Shepard has been struggling with invasive breast cancer since 2011 and has been treated with chemotherapy lymph node removal and a double mastectomy Source Article Jewel Shepard from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30