Background
Rhonda Lee Oglesby was born in 1945 in Magnolia, Arkansas, the daughter of Horace and Cecil Oglesby.
Rhonda Lee Oglesby was born in 1945 in Magnolia, Arkansas, the daughter of Horace and Cecil Oglesby.
She was raised in Springhill, Louisiana before her family moved to Pine Bluff, where she attended Sam Taylor Elementary School and Pine Bluff High School.
A singer, she received a music scholarship to attend the University of Arkansas. After three months, she announced she was relinquishing the crown to pursue a show business career in Los Los Angeles In Los Angeles, she was in the original cast of the Aquarius Theatre"s production of Hair.
She was promoted to the lead female role of Jeanie, and went on to restage the musical in Seatte, Detroit, Miami, Montreal, Copenhagen, and touring productions in Europe.
On her return, she settled in New York City. She joined the cast of the 1973 Office Broadway show National Lampoon Lemmings, performing in various roles alongside such comedic actors as John Belushi, Chevy Chase and Christopher Guest.
After touring with the show, she took part in the The National Lampoon Radio Hour, which included Belushi, Chase, Guest, Bill Murray, Gilda Radner and Harold Ramis. She appeared on such albums as National Lampoon Missing White House Tapes and National Lampoon That"s Not Funny, That"s Sick.
Many of her fellow National Lampoon cast members went on to join Saturday Night Live.
In 1976-1977, Coullet starred in the Broadway production of the musical The Robber Bridegroom, playing the role of Rosamund and can be heard on the original Broadway album with Barry Bostwick. She also starred on Broadway in Pump Boys and Dinettes and in the off-Broadway production of Cowgirls. She was a back-up singer for Buffett, Spinal Tap, and Meat Loaf.
"Dead Ringer" Civil Defense. In 1992, she recorded an album of her own songs, titled The American Secret.
Several of the semiautobiographical songs from the album were incorporated into her theatrical musical production, Runaway Beauty Queen. produced at Florida Studio Theatre in 2005 and The Vineyard Playhouse in 2010. Her brother Scott Oglesby is a published essayist and novelist.
