Cassandra Peterson
Actor
- Born
- September 17, 1951 (age 75) · Manhattan, Kansas, USA
Cassandra Peterson is an American actress best known for her on-screen horror hostess character Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.
She gained fame on Los Angeles television station KHJ wearing a black, gothic, cleavage-enhancing gown as host of Movie Macabre, a weekly horror movie presentation.
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Her wickedly vampish appearance is offset by her comical character, quirky/quick-witted personality, and valley girl-type speech.
Known for
Diamonds Are Forever
December 14, 1971
Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island
September 3, 2019
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
July 26, 1985
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
September 30, 1988
Roma
March 16, 1972
Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold
December 17, 1986
Cheech & Chong's Next Movie
July 18, 1980
The Munsters
September 27, 2022
Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo!
October 6, 2020
LEGO Scooby-Doo! Haunted Hollywood
January 28, 2016
The Haunted World of El Superbeasto
September 22, 2009
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
October 6, 2014
Acting89
- 2026R.L. Stine's Pumpkinhead 2 as Cassandra
- 2026Vincent Price: What Keeps Us Alive
- 2023Commitment to Life as Self (archive footage)
- 2023The SF Sketchfest Roast of Bruce Campbell as Elvira
- 2022In Search of Darkness: Part III as Self
- 2022The Munsters as Barbara Carr
- 2021Le Passeur immobile as Self
- 2020In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover as Host - Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
- 2020Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo! as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (voice)
- 2020