Roseanne Cherrie Barr is an American actress, comedian, writer, television producer, director, and 2012 presidential nominee of the California-based Peace and Freedom Party.
Background
Barr was born to a working-class Jewish family. Barr's grandparents and great-grandparents were immigrants from Ukraine, Russia, Lithuania and Austria-Hungary, and her paternal grandfather changed his surname from "Borisofsky" to "Barr" upon entering the United States.Her Jewish upbringing was influenced by her devoutly Orthodox Jewish maternal grandmother. Barr's parents kept their Jewish heritage secret from their neighbors and were partially involved in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Education
She dropped out of high school when she was 17 years old. After a car accident, she was admitted to a mental institution, claiming she was having nightmares and memory loss. She left the institute less than a year later.
Career
On August 5, 2011 Barr appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and announced her candidacy for president in the 2012 presidential election, running on the "Green Tea Party" ticket. Her candidacy mixes attention to economics, personal health and meditation. She also said that she is running for Prime Minister of Israel. In an interview with the The Forward she invoked tikkun olam in her support of bringing women into politics and religion. On September 19, 2011 she appeared at the Occupy Wall Street protests and spoke in support of the protestors.
Filmography:
1989 She-Devil
1990 Look Who's Talking Too
1991 Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
1993 Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
1995 Blue in the Face
2004 Home on the Range
2004 A Dairy Tale
Politics
Barr threw herself into politics, seeking the nation's top office in 2012. She tried for the Green Party's presidential nomination, but she lost out to Dr. Jill Stein. Barr then ran as the Peace and Freedom Party candidate. According to an interview with the entertainment blog Vulture, she didn't expect to win. Barr sought to bring awareness to the country's flawed political system. "I wanted to show how hard it is for anyone who doesn't have $1 billion, who doesn't have any infrastructure, to get their name on the ballot."
Views
Quotations:
Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself.
I used to want to be a movie star so I wouldn't have to live in trailers anymore. And now that I make movies, I spend a lot of my life living in trailers.
Everything that's written about me has such a negative taint. It just has a life of its own, like an avalanche, and I don't think there's anything I can do to stop it.