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My Take
I have a soft spot for Pia Zadora precisely because she turned ridicule into a kind of armor. The Hoboken-born child performer, who came up through Broadway and even Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, pulled off the unthinkable in the early 1980s: a Golden Globe New Star award and a Razzie Worst Actress in the same breath. Most careers would have crumbled under that, yet she kept singing and performing for years. That Taurus stubbornness, the refusal to disappear when the critics piled on, is exactly the durable kind of star power I find genuinely endearing.
Overview
Pia Zadora (born Pia Alfreda Schipani; May 4, 1954) is an American actress and singer. She debuted as a child actress on Broadway, in regional theater, and in the film Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964). She came to national attention in 1981 when, following her starring role in the highly criticized Butterfly, she won a Golden Globe Award as New Star of the Year while simultaneously winning the Golden Raspberr…
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Pia Zadora
- Name (Japanese)
- ピア・ザドラ
- Reading
- ぴあ・ざどら
- Born
- May 4, 1954 (age 72)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Taurus / Horse
- Origin
- Hoboken, New Jersey, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- singer / actor / stage actor / television actor / songwriter
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- 1983 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress
- 1983 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst New Star
- 1984 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Official sitehttps://piazadora.com/
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%94%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B6%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.