| Intro | Actress | ||
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Actor Model Television actor Radio personality |
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| From | United States of America | ||
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Fashion Film, TV, Stage & Radio |
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| Gender | female | ||
| Birth | 1 January 1963, Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, U.S.A. | ||
| Age: | 57 years | ||
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Erika Anderson (born 1963) is an American film and television actress best known for her role as Greta in A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989) and subsequently the actress Selena Swift in the cult television series Twin Peaks (1990).
Life and career
Anderson grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the daughter of a sculptor. She attended Nathan Hale High School and the University of Tulsa, graduating with a major in telecommunications and a minor in theater. While in school, she worked as a disc jockey at Tulsa’s only jazz radio station and also began working in television, eventually hosting her own arts program.
After college, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in radio and television. She signed with a Elite modeling agency and worked steadily in New York City, Paris, Milan, and Los Angeles. While in Italy, she played the lead in a short experimental film about an Italian vision of the US called Through Your Eyes.
Her first role in a full-length movie was in the 1988 movie Lifted, and her breakthrough role came in 1989 in the horror movie A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child as Greta Gibson. Anderson appeared in three TV episodes of “Twin Peaks”, playing twin sisters, Emerald and Jade in Invitation to Love. She starred in the 1991 erotic suspense thriller Zandalee with Nicolas Cage, Judge Reinhold, and Joe Pantoliano.
In 1991, she starred in a suspense thriller Shadows of the Past, as Jackie Delaney with Nicholas Campbell. In 1995, she starred with Scott Valentine in Object of Obsession as Margaret, a woman taken hostage by her mysterious new lover. Her last movie was in 2000 in the film Ascension.
Anderson has made many guest appearances on TV shows from Silk Stalkings, Dream On, Twin Peaks, to Red Shoe Diaries (Liar’s Tale). The 5-foot 11-inch brunette modeled for various fashion magazines, as well as for photographers Helmut Newton, Douglas Sutter, and sculptor Robert Graham. She has appeared on the cover of at-least five magazines. In 2010 Anderson appeared in Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy. Anderson was also featured in articles in such magazines as the May 1991 Premiere Magazine, the January 1991 Elle as well as ITC Entertainment’s press kit for the 1991 movie Zandalee.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1987 | Protect and Surf | Betty | Television film |
| 1989 | A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child | Greta Gibson | Feature film |
| 1990 | Twin Peaks | Selena Swift / Jade / Emerald | Television series; recurring role |
| 1991 | Shadows of the Past | Jackie Delaney | Television film |
| 1991 | Visitors from the Unknown | Nordic Alien | Television film |
| 1991 | Zandalee | Zandalee Martin | Feature film |
| 1993 | Quake | Jenny | Video |
| 1993 | Liar’s Tale/Red Shoes Diaries | Jo | TV Series |
| 1995 | Object of Obsession | Margaret | Feature film |
| 1996 | Club VR (film) | Shula | Video |
| 1998 | October 22 (film) | Maggie | Feature film |
Magazine covers
- Starter Italy 9 September 1991
- Mirabella (Canada) November 1990, vol. 2, iss. 6
- King (Italy) November 1990, iss. 33
- Longevity (USA) December 1989, vol. 2, Iss. 3
- Taxi April 1989
- Moda (Italy) November 1991
- Health(USA) May-June 1995