Anna Chappell (née Oksanen; September 15, 1925 â€" July 31, 2005) was
a Canadian-American actress. She appeared in two feature films:
Mountaintop Motel Massacre (1984) and The Man in the Moon (1991), and
was a longtime resident of Shreveport, Louisiana, where she was active
in local theater.Chappell was born Anna Oksanen in 1925 to Finnish
parents Carl and Aino Oksanen. Though born in Finland, Chappell
relocated to Toronto, Canada in her early childhood. Both her parents
were actors. Chappell was raised in Toronto, where she became
interested in theater at a young age. As a child, she sang with the
Canadian Navy entertainment corps.She met her husband, American
musician Harry Chappell, while working as a singer. The couple married
in Binghamton, New York in 1946, and relocated to Shreveport,
Louisiana in the mid-1950s; there, Chappell became active in local
theater. She appeared as Lady Thiang in a production of The King and
I, which toured in Corning, New York in 1959. In 1970, Chappell earned
critical acclaim for her performance in Mame at the Marjorie Lyons
Playhouse in Shreveport. For her performance, she was awarded a Best
Actress award from The Shreveport Times.Chappell's husband, Harry, who
ran a music store in Shreveport, died on March 31, 1981. In 1983, she
starred as Mme. Danzard in a production of My Sister in this House at
the Kennedy Center, directed by Robert Buseick. The same year, she
made her feature film debut in the slasher film Mountaintop Motel
Massacre, playing an unhinged woman who begins murdering guests in the
hotel she operates. Terry Lawson of the Dayton Daily News praised her
performance as being handled with "a comic intensity." She later had a
supporting role in Robert Mulligan's drama film The Man in the Moon
(1991).
a Canadian-American actress. She appeared in two feature films:
Mountaintop Motel Massacre (1984) and The Man in the Moon (1991), and
was a longtime resident of Shreveport, Louisiana, where she was active
in local theater.Chappell was born Anna Oksanen in 1925 to Finnish
parents Carl and Aino Oksanen. Though born in Finland, Chappell
relocated to Toronto, Canada in her early childhood. Both her parents
were actors. Chappell was raised in Toronto, where she became
interested in theater at a young age. As a child, she sang with the
Canadian Navy entertainment corps.She met her husband, American
musician Harry Chappell, while working as a singer. The couple married
in Binghamton, New York in 1946, and relocated to Shreveport,
Louisiana in the mid-1950s; there, Chappell became active in local
theater. She appeared as Lady Thiang in a production of The King and
I, which toured in Corning, New York in 1959. In 1970, Chappell earned
critical acclaim for her performance in Mame at the Marjorie Lyons
Playhouse in Shreveport. For her performance, she was awarded a Best
Actress award from The Shreveport Times.Chappell's husband, Harry, who
ran a music store in Shreveport, died on March 31, 1981. In 1983, she
starred as Mme. Danzard in a production of My Sister in this House at
the Kennedy Center, directed by Robert Buseick. The same year, she
made her feature film debut in the slasher film Mountaintop Motel
Massacre, playing an unhinged woman who begins murdering guests in the
hotel she operates. Terry Lawson of the Dayton Daily News praised her
performance as being handled with "a comic intensity." She later had a
supporting role in Robert Mulligan's drama film The Man in the Moon
(1991).
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