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Kymberly Herrin Dies: ‘Ghostbusters’ Actress Who Starred In Standard ZZ Prime Video Was 65
Kymberly Herrin, who performed the “Dream Ghost” in Ghostbusters and appeared in a ZZ Prime video that cemented the band as MTV stars, has died. She was 65.
Her household advised the Santa Barbara Information-Press that Herrin died October in Santa Barbara however didn’t present a trigger or different particulars.
Herrin was a mannequin who lined greater than a dozen magazines, together with twice for Playboy, earlier than being forged within the 1984 music video for ZZ Prime’s “Legs.” The clip was a 3rd in an over-the-top trilogy that additionally included “Gimme All Your Lovin’” and “Sharp Dressed Man” and had made the Texas boogie trio regulars of the then-nascent cable channel. Herrin advised an interviewer that she changed one among three ladies within the first two movies that the opposite two “didn’t like.” She was the lady within the bright-red prime in “Legs,” which grew to become the band’s largest hit, reaching the Prime 10 within the U.S. and a number of other different international locations.
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She additionally appeared in ZZ Prime’s 1985 video for “Sleeping Bag” — one other Prime 10 single — 1987 longform Kiss video Uncovered and a David Lee Roth video within the mid-’80s.
Herrin additionally landed a pair of roles in common 1984 movies: Robert Zemeckis’ Romancing the Stone, starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, and Ivan Reitman’s Ghostbusters, which featured Invoice Murray, Dan Ackroyd, Harold Ramis and Sigourney Weaver, amongst others. Herrin has a quick however memorable function within the latter as was forged because the floating apparition who appeared above a sleeping Ackroyd’s mattress and appeared to do greater than float.
Born on October 2, 1957, in Lompoc, CA, Herrin additionally had small roles on the large display screen in Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), Highway Home (1987) and Transferring Violations (1985) and guested on the TV dramas Matt Houston and St. Elsewhere.
Kymberly is survived by her mom, Billie Dodson; her brother, Mark Herrin; together with a number of nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews. In The household y to the American Most cancers Society to additional the analysis of the prevention and remedy of breast most cancers.
Kymberly Herrin Dies: ‘Ghostbusters’ Actress Who Starred In Standard ZZ Prime Video Was 65
