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Deborah Harry

Highest Rated: 100% Suzi Q (2019)

Lowest Rated: 0% Try Seventeen (2002)

Birthday: Jul 1, 1945

Birthplace: Miami, Florida, USA

A pioneering figure in the development of women's roles in rock-n-roll, Debbie Harry was the visually and vocally striking singer for the punk-New Wave group Blondie, which rose to fame in the late 1970s and early 1980s with such sonically adventurous tunes as "Heart of Glass," "Hanging on the Telephone," "The Tide Is High," "Rapture" and many others. With longtime creative partner Chris Stein, Harry helped to explode the idea of a woman fronting an all-male band as a "cute" curiosity by virtue of her formidable vocals, smart and occasionally controversial lyrics, and icy stage presence. Blondie struck gold in the early '80s with experiments in dance, funk, rap and reggae, but sea changes in musical tastes and Stein's debilitating illness brought the band to a close by 1982. From then on, Harry worked primarily as an actress in films like "Videodrome" (1983) and "Hairspray" (1988) while releasing sporadic solo efforts before Blondie reunited in 1997. Her status as a powerful female foot soldier in the creation of punk rock, as well as the singer of some of the best pop music of the 1980s, preserved Debbie Harry's status as one of rock's best-loved singers.

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 95% Suzi Q Watchlist
98% 79% Hairspray
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97% 88% Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
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94% 81% Polyester
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89% 77% Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
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88% So Unreal
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87% 66% Heavy
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87% 78% Mayor of the Sunset Strip
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83% 80% Videodrome
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78% 83% Bad Reputation Watchlist

Filmography

Movies TV Shows
So Unreal 88% 2023 Narrator Suzi Q 100% 95% 2019 Self Bad Reputation 78% 83% 2018 Self Come On Feel the Noize: The Story of How Rock Became Metal 2017 Actor Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures 97% 88% 2016 Actor River of Fundament 83% 2014 Singing Wake Guest Actor Nile Rodgers: The Hitmaker 2013 Actor Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction 89% 77% 2012 Actor Robert Williams Mr. Bitchin' 50% 2010 Actor Elegy 74% 61% 2008 Amy Actor Anamorph 27% 24% 2007 Neighbor Actor Full Grown Men 42% 25% 2006 Beauty Actor Blondie: One Way or Another 2006 Actor A Good Night to Die 64% 2003 Madison Actor My Life Without Me 65% 87% 2003 Ann's Mother Actor Mayor of the Sunset Strip 87% 78% 2003 Self Try Seventeen 0% 36% 2002 Ma Mabley Actor Spun 36% 75% 2002 Neighbor Actor Deuces Wild 3% 51% 2002 Wendy Actor The Fluffer 49% 25% 2001 Marcella Actor Red Lipstick 2000 Ezmerelda Actor Drop Dead Rock 20% 1999 Thor Sturmundrang Actor Six Ways to Sunday 36% 73% 1999 Kate Odum Actor, Original Music L.A. Johns 1997 Madam "Jacq" Jacqueline Actor Phantom 2040: The Ghost Who Walks 1996 Vaingloria Voice
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