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Debbie HarryDeborah Ann Harry (born July 1, 1945 in Miami, Florida) is an American rock and roll musician who grew up in Hawthorne, New Jersey. She originally gained fame as the frontwoman for New Wave band Blondie, which originated in the mid 1970s and achieved commercial success in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

She was a regular at CBGB's, a famous New York City club that was an early center for punk rock. Although Blondie could rock as hard as any of the punk rock bands of that era, it became the epitome of the New Wave style1 and Debbie Harry, with her two-tone bottle-blonde hair, became its best known icon. Launching just on the cusp of MTV, Debbie Harry and Blondie put out some of the first rock music videos, in some cases inventing some of the clichés of the form.

Life and career
Before Blondie, Debbie was in a forgettable folk rock group, The Wind In The Willows, before becoming part of The Stilettos with Blondie guitarist Chris Stein in the early 1970s.

Her strong stage personality of cool sexuality and streetwise style1became so closely associated with Blondie the band that many confused Harry herself as "Blondie" - as a solo artist - to her lasting chagrin. This is unfortunate because Blondie, the band, laid down a rich legacy of experimental tracks, situationist lyrics, and DIY weirdness that made them interesting as a musical group.

Among her notable vocals are "Heart of Glass" (a New-Wave/Disco crossover) and the rap on "Rapture" (the first rap song to top the US charts). Harry fans list her Yoko Ono-esque screams on "Victor" and delivery of such classics as "Atomic", "Call Me", "The Tide Is High", and "One Way or Another" as other outstanding vocal performances.

In 1981 (see 1981 in music), Harry began a solo career, but then entered a temporary retirement (1983-1985) to help nurse Chris Stein back to health after he was diagnosed with a rare genetic disease called Pemphigus. With Stein's recovery, she returned as a musician and actress.

Deborah Harry currently resides in New York City.

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Acting roles
Some of her notable film roles were in Videodrome (1983), Rock & Rule (1983) an animated movie where she did vocals opposite Robin Zander of Cheap Trick, John Waters' Hairspray (1988), where she played the big-haired and villainous Velma von Tussle, paired with Sonny Bono, and Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990). She has also had notable roles in such films as Spun, Cop Land and My Life Without Me

Harry's TV guest appearances include the first episode of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch and Wiseguy.

She had a voice role in the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City as a cab dispatcher, and sang "Ghost Riders in the Sky" over the closing credits of Alex Cox's film Three Businessmen.

In addition, she played the role of "Elizabeth" in the FMV-based game Double Switch, which was released for the Sega CD (1993), the Sega Saturn, Apple Macintosh and Windows 95.

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Solo career
Harry has since released solo albums, performed with the avant-garde jazz group the Jazz Passengers, released two new albums with Blondie, No Exit (1999) and The Curse of Blondie (2004), and become one of the biggest gay icons in the world. One of the biggest Gay anthems in the U.K is "I Want That Man", from her 1989 solo album Def, Dumb and Blonde.

In 1995, Debbie recorded two songs with Argentinian ska band Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, most notably on the Lennon-McCartney song Strawberry Fields Forever.

Debbie Harry became the prototype for successive strong women in popular music such as Madonna, Courtney Love, Gwen Stefani and any number of contemporary pop princesses. Up to that point, rock had been a heavily male-dominated field, with women trivialized as backup singers or groupies. Many women musicians have acknowledged Debbie Harry's pioneering role.

On February 23, 1999, Harry became the oldest female to reach No. 1 in the UK with Maria; a record she still holds.

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Discography

  House of Boys (2007) (pre-production) (in negotiations)
Anamorph (2007) (filming) .... Neighbor
Full Grown Men (2006) (post-production) .... Beauty

I Remember You Now... (2005) .... Margaret
Patch (2005) .... Belinda
Honey Trap (2005) .... Lawyer
The Curse of Blondie (2004) (V) .... Blondie
"The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn"
... aka The Late Late Show (USA: short title)
- Episode dated 28 May 2004 (2004) TV Episode .... Blondie
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story (2003) (as Debbie Harry) .... Fastidieux
... aka Maletas de Tulse Luper: La historia de Moab, Las (Spain)
... aka Valigie di Tulse Luper - La storia di Moab, Le (Italy)
A Good Night to Die (2003) .... Madison
My Life Without Me (2003) .... Ann's Mother
... aka Ma vie sans moi (Canada: French title)
... aka Mi vida sin mí (Spain)
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002) (VG) (voice) .... Delores
... aka Vice City (USA: short title)
Try Seventeen (2002) .... Ma Mabley
... aka All I Want (USA: DVD title)
Spun (2002) .... Neighbor
Deuces Wild (2002) .... Wendy
... aka Deuces Wild - Wild in den Straßen (Germany)
The Fluffer (2001/I) .... Marcella
Red Lipstick (2000) .... Ezmeralda The Psychic

Zoo (1999) .... Dorothy the Waitress
Joe's Day (1998)
Six Ways to Sunday (1997) .... Kate Odum
Cop Land (1997) .... Delores
L.A. Johns (1997) (TV) .... Madam 'Jacq' Jacqueline
"Sabrina, the Teenage Witch"
... aka Sabrina (USA: promotional abbreviation)
... aka Sabrina Goes to College (USA: promotional title)
- Pilot (1996) TV Episode .... Cassandra
Sandman (1996/II)
Heavy (1995) .... Delores
Drop Dead Rock (1995) .... Thor
Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors (1995) (VG)
"Phantom 2040" (1994) TV Series (voice) .... Vain Gloria
... aka Phantom 2040: The Ghost Who Walks
Dead Beat (1994) .... Mrs. Kurtz
... aka The Phony Perfector
"The Adventures of Pete & Pete"
... aka Pete and Pete (USA: short title)
- New Year's Pete (????) TV Episode (as Debbie Harry) .... Neighbor
Body Bags (1993) (TV) .... The Nurse (segment "Hair")
... aka John Carpenter Presents 'Body Bags'
... aka John Carpenter Presents 'Mind Games' (USA: cable TV title)
Double Switch (1993) (VG) .... Elizabeth
Intimate Stranger (1992/I) (TV) .... Cory Wheeler
"Monsters"
- Desirable Alien (1991) TV Episode
The Real Story of O Christmas Tree (1991) (V) .... Anneka
Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme (1990) (TV) .... Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990) .... Betty (wraparound story)

"Wiseguy"
- The Rip-Off Stick (1989) TV Episode .... Diana Price
- And It Comes Out Here (1989) TV Episode .... Diana Price
- Dead Dog Lives (1989) TV Episode .... Diana Price
New York Stories (1989) .... Girl at Blind Alley
Hairspray (1988) (as Debbie Harry) .... Velma Von Tussle
Satisfaction (1988) (as Debbie Harry) .... Tina
... aka Girls of Summer (Canada: English title)
"Tales from the Darkside"
- The Moth (1987) TV Episode .... Sybil
Forever, Lulu (1987) .... Lulu
... aka Crazy Streets
"Crime Story"
- Top of the World (1987) TV Episode .... Bambi
"Saturday Night Live"
... aka NBC's Saturday Night (USA: original title)
... aka SNL
... aka SNL 25 (USA: new title)
... aka Saturday Night Live '80 (USA: new title)
- Episode #12.9 (1987) TV Episode (as Debbie Harry) .... Musical Guest
- Episode #6.10 (1981) TV Episode .... Host
- Episode #5.1 (1979) TV Episode (as Blondie) .... Musical Guest
Videodrome (1983) .... Nicki Brand
... aka Zonekiller (Canada: English title)
Rock & Rule (1983) (singing voice) .... Angel
... aka Ring of Power
... aka Rock 'n' Rule
New York Beat Movie (1981) .... Fairy Godmother
... aka Downtown 81 (USA: recut version)
... aka Glenn O'Brien's New York Beat Movie (USA: complete title)
"Solid Gold"
... aka Solid Gold in Concert (USA: new title)
- Pilot #4 (1980) TV Episode (as Blondie)
Union City (1980) .... Lillian

"The Old Grey Whistle Test"
... aka Whistle Test (UK: new title)
- Episode dated December 1979 (1979) TV Episode .... Blondie
"Musikladen"
- Episode #1.41 (1978) TV Episode .... Blondie
The Foreigner (1978) .... Dee Trik
Deadly Hero (1976) (uncredited) .... Singer
Unmade Beds (1976) .... Blondie