Louise Robey is a famous Canadian actress, former model, singer, and songwriter Louise. She has used her last name Robey as her stage name during her active days in her career. Although she was best known for her role as Micki Foster in the television series ‘Friday the 13th: The Series’ from 1980-1990, she has also gotten some recognition for her music.
She began her career as a model by sheer luck as it was not her aspiration at that time. She was spotted sunbathing in a hotel pool by French photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue who took a picture of her and later invited her to Paris. Robey attained success by being a fashion model before she later joined the group Louise and the Creeps to pursue her musical career.
Who is Louise Robey?
The Canadian singer was born Anne Beatrice Fiona Robey on March 14, 1960, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Her father was a pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force while her mother was a London stage actress. She grew up in four different countries: Canada, France, Italy, and West Germany, and also schooled in the countries which is why she had to learn how to speak four different languages.
She attended St. Leonards School in St. Andrews Fife, Scotland while she took preparatory courses for oxford and Cambridge. Louise Robey is also a graduate of Elmwood School, Ottawa.
Louise Robey began her modeling career after she traveled to Aix-en-Provence with her boyfriend whom she later parted ways with and was discovered by the French photographer. She gained more success and fame after Lartigue took a picture of her for Paris Match and Vogue Paris. When she moved to New York City in the early 1980s, she worked as a catwalk model, earning $5,000 daily.
Her music career did not go very far
She started to pursue her musical career performing in the streets and later on, she became the frontwoman for the group, Louise and the Creeps. The group later got to sign a record deal but unfortunately, they broke up even before they recorded an album.
In 1984, she got a solo record deal with Silver Blue records and had her self-titled album. Six singles from the album were released and one became a hit. The song remained on the billboard hot 100 for three weeks in March 1985 peaking at no.77.
Robey released a new single take it to the top in collaboration with another artist, Lovari in December 2013. The song made no.87 on the iTunes U.S dance chart.
Robey continued her modeling career even as a musician, she later became involved in improvisational comedy. She also starred in stage roles in dinner theater. That led to her debut in acting as she got small roles in a few films in 1986. In 1987, she had her break in the industry when she got to play the role of Micki Foster and the series became a hit as it was one of the top three syndicated dramas at that time.
Louise Robey has been married twice
Louise Robey married her first husband Charles Beauclerk, Earl of Burford on 29 December 1994 at St Winifred’s church in Manaton but at that time, she was already pregnant with their son. She started dating the Earl of Burford in 1993 after they met at a lecture lord Burford gave about one of his relatives, the 17the Earl of Oxford. The couple welcomed their son, James, Lord Vere of Hanworth in 1995 in Boston. The marriage, unfortunately, ended with a divorce in 2001.
After her marriage with the earl of Burford ended, she moved to the Dordogne, France with her new lover, a fashion and art photographer, Stan Shaffer. Robey and Shaffer later tied the knots on 22 March 2008 in France but sadly he died two years later on 10 June 2010.
Other facts about the singer
- It seems Louise Robey’s family has artistic skills in their blood which could be because they are descendants of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns.
- Before she was spotted sunbathing in the French Rivera, she won a scholarship to the royal ballet school so she had to let go of the school to focus on her modeling career.
- Her photo which appeared in the Paris Match was one of her first professional photos and it was taken nude.
- She was also featured in advertising campaigns for Maybelline, Jordache, Revlon, and Clairol.
