Chris Owens was a performer, club owner and entrepreneur who based her act out of the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the United States.
Chris Owens was a French Quarter fixture and celebrity from the start of the 1960s through the early 21st century.
Chris Owens was well known in Louisiana and throughout the South and tourists visiting Bourbon Street could not miss huge posters of her wearing costumes as they walked by her nightclub.
Chris Owens was known as “Queen of the Vieux Carré”.
Chris Owens hosted a yearly Easter Parade that continues to roll throughout the French Quarter.
Chris Owens also starred in the 1962 film The Wacky World of Doctor Morgus (see Morgus the Magnificent).
Chris Owens began production in 2003 of her first feature film, Let’s Ballroom, in which she stars as a wealthy widow who falls in love with her dance instructor.
Sadly, Chris Owens died of a heart attack on the morning of Tuesday, April 5, 2022 in her St. Louis Street apartment.
Chris Owens’ death was confirmed by her manager.