Lana Jean Clarkson, an American actress, and fashion model was born on April 5, 1962, and died on February 3, 2003.

She rose to prominence in several sword-and-sorcery films during the 1980s. Phil Spector, a record producer, shot and killed Clarkson inside his home in 2003; he was charged with second-degree murder and convicted in 2009.

Clarkson began appearing in film and television in the early 1980s. She made her film debut as a minor character in Amy Heckerling’s coming-of-age comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982). She portrayed Mrs. Vargas, a science teacher (Vincent Schiavelli). Her first speaking role was in the film. She appeared in Scarface (1983), dancing on the floor of the Babylon Club behind Michelle Pfeiffer.

Clarkson appeared in the John Landis spoof Amazon Women on the Moon in 1987. Clarkson then appeared in the sequel to Roger Corman’s Barbarian Queen, Barbarian Queen II: The Empress Strikes Back.

Clarkson played the evil attendant to a young woman played by model/actress Nicole Eggert in the period horror film The Haunting of Morella (1990).

Clarkson portrayed a domineering lesbian character in the film who attempts to resurrect the spirit of a witch burned at the stake during the Salem witch trials. Clarkson appeared as one of three cops posing as strippers to catch a serial killer in Corman’s final film, Vice Girls (1996).

Lana Clarkson children: Did Lana Clarkson ever have kids?

Clarkson had two children, Jessee J. Clarkson and Fawn.