Dawn Wildsmith was born in Carmel, California, and raised by a beatnik father who owned the Gallery St. Denis art...
Dawn Wildsmith is a member of Actress

Does Dawn Wildsmith Dead or Alive?

As per our current Database, Dawn Wildsmith is still alive (as per Wikipedia, Last update: May 10, 2020).

🎂 Dawn Wildsmith - Age, Bio, Faces and Birthday

Currently, Dawn Wildsmith is 61 years, 6 months and 7 days old. Dawn Wildsmith will celebrate 62rd birthday on a Wednesday 11th of June 2025. Below we countdown to Dawn Wildsmith upcoming birthday.

Days

Hours

Minutes

Seconds

Popular As	Dawn Wildsmith
Occupation	Actress
Age	61 years old
Zodiac Sign	Gemini
Born	June 11, 1963 (Carmel, California, USA)
Birthday	June 11
Town/City	Carmel, California, USA
Nationality	USA

🌙 Zodiac

Dawn Wildsmith’s zodiac sign is Gemini. According to astrologers, Gemini is expressive and quick-witted, it represents two different personalities in one and you will never be sure which one you will face. They are sociable, communicative and ready for fun, with a tendency to suddenly get serious, thoughtful and restless. They are fascinated with the world itself, extremely curious, with a constant feeling that there is not enough time to experience everything they want to see.

🌙 Chinese Zodiac Signs

Dawn Wildsmith was born in the Year of the Rabbit. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rabbit enjoy being surrounded by family and friends. They’re popular, compassionate, sincere, and they like to avoid conflict and are sometimes seen as pushovers. Rabbits enjoy home and entertaining at home. Compatible with Goat or Pig.

Dawn Wildsmith was born in Carmel, California, and raised by a beatnik father who owned the Gallery St. Denis art gallery. She began an interest in the arts from a very young age and, by the time she was 12-years-old, had sold her very first painting.

In the 1980s, after doing some commercial and print work, she would meet and marry up-and-coming American B-movie director Fred Olen Ray. The two would form the companies Savage Films and A.I.R. during this time, and Dawn would end up appearing in many of the company's horror, action and science fiction releases from 1984 to 1990, beginning with the sci-fi comedy Star Slammer (1986) (which was filmed in 1984 but not released until several years later).

She was cast in both lead and supporting roles; and most often played either tough, take-charge heroines or ruthless, calculating villainess. On occasion, she'd even play a hapless victim, as in the goofy horror comedy The Tomb (1986), where her character was crushed to death after being pushed onto a bed covered in boa constrictors.

In the infamous cult classic Surf Nazis Must Die (1987), Wildsmith's vivid performance as a sexually-insatiable nut-case won her a special "Guilty Pleasure" Award at the Cannes Film Festival. She also had memorable roles in Evil Spawn (1987), playing scientist John Carradine's evil, sardonic assistant (who helps transform an aging, insecure actress into an insectoid monster), and Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers (1988), as a cackling chainsaw hooker who tries to seduce her way out of doing prison time.

In the latter, she also designed the makeup that adorns cult queen Linnea Quigley's body during her notorious "Virgin Dance of the Double Chainsaws." Possibly the best and most memorable performance in Dawn's all-too-brief career was playing a trash-talking tough cookie who tries to help David Carradine retrieve his abducted wife in the post apocalyptic action flick Warlords (1988).

Other credits include such popular 1980s B flicks as The Phantom Empire (1988), Beverly Hills Vamp (1989) and Wizards of the Demon Sword (1991). She also appeared briefly in Mohammed Rustam's awful alien-vampire opus Evils of the Night (1985) and had an uncredited bit as a club dancer in Larry Cohen's fun killer mutant baby sequel It's Alive III: Island of the Alive (1987).

Dawn received a "Drive In Academy Award" nomination from John Bloom for her performance in Warlords (1988), was voted "Most Working Actress" in Variety magazine that same year and received a Playboy Magazine pictorial proclaiming her "Queen of the B's" a year later.

Sadly, at the height of her fame as a B-movie force to be reckoned with, Dawn abruptly left the business and hasn't appeared in another film since the early 1990s. In fact, her last credited appearance in Steve Latshaw's Jack-O (1995) is actually just recycled footage that was filmed in the late 1980s.

Said footage was shot to try to entice producers into backing another project called Teenage Exorcist (1991). That project was eventually filmed in 1991, but the role was recast with Brinke Stevens in the lead.

As of 2001, Dawn resided in Ashland, Oregon, and was traveling around the country exhibiting her surrealist artwork.