Actor / Director Profile

Tall, lovely and willowy blonde actress Simone Griffeth was born on April 4, 1950 in Savannah, Georgia. Griffeth was a Theater Arts major at the University of South Carolina for three years. While attending college Simone wrote, put together and acted in a weekly children's show for a Columbia television station. Griffeth appeared in a TV commercial at age fifteen. She made her film debut with a charming performance as the titular sweet innocent country lass in the enjoyable redneck exploitation item "Swamp Girl." She was likewise well cast as another naive hillbilly gal in the sordid "Sixteen" and was excellent as David Carradine's enticing co-driver Annie Smith in Paul Bartel's wickedly funny sci-fi black comedy cult classic "Death Race 2000." Simone was at her sexiest as the bored wife of a neglectful millionaire in "Hot Target" and was once again solid in the entertaining Crown International action opus "The Patriot." Among the many TV shows Griffeth has done guest spots on are "Silk Stockings," "The Golden Girls," "Magnum, P.I.," "Rip Tide," "T.J. Hooker," "The Dukes of Hazzard," "The Greatest American Hero," "Three's Company," "Hawaii Five-O," "The Incredible Hulk," "Starsky and Hutch," and "The Six Million Dollar Man." Simone Griffeth now teaches acting and works along with her husband Wayne McDonald as a real estate agent for high-end Low Country properties in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.