Valerie Ritchie Perrine was born on September 3, 1943 in Galveston, Texas. She is an Academy Award-nominated American actress and model.

After making her debut in the Kurt Vonnegut classic Slaughterhouse Five, she has played with some of the most respected actors of our time; Gene Hackman in Superman, Jack Nicholson and Harvey Keitel in The Border, Robert Mitchum in Agency, Jackie Gleason in Mr. Billion, Dennis Hopper and Wesley Snipes in Boiling Point, Robert Redford and Jane Fonda in The Electric Horseman, etc. There have also been numerous MOW's, pilots, and guest appearances on Nash Bridges, The Practice, Homicide, and ER.

Valerie's acting has generated numerous awards and nominations. For her dramatic role in Lenny opposite Dustin Hoffman, directed by Bob Fosse, she received the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival, the New York Film Critics Award, the British Academy Award, the New York Board of Review, the National Association of Theaters Award, the United Motion Picture Association award, the Hollywood Women’s Press Club Newcomer of the Year nomination and a nomination for an Oscar as "Best Actress" at the American Academy Awards. An ACE Award nomination for a Miss Piggy-type bimbo in Shelly Duvals' Faeire Tale Theatre proved her talent as a comedienne.

Even with all these accomplishments, many remember Valerie for her numerous photos in Playboy.

Valerie has lived all over the world: four years in Japan, two years in Paris, four years in London, and two years in Rome, where she appeared in Italian films and TV. From Italy Valerie moved to NY. With this move came the return of her desire to work on stage, in front of a live audience... something she hadn't done since her late teens as a dancer in Las Vegas.

Her activities included collecting Dogs. Currently she has a Labrador Retriever... MoJo. . She enjoys needlepoint, sewing, reading, painting, gardening, and her latest love... her computer which she is using to write her first novel. Valerie also loves traveling... enabling her to study foreign cultures and languages.

Filmography

• Superman II (2006)
• The Californians (2005)
• "Third Watch" (1 episode, 2005)
• The Moguls (2005)
• The End of the Bar (2002)
• "Grounded for Life" (1 episode, 2002)
• "The Beast" (1 episode, 2001)
• "Family Law" (1 episode, 2001)
• "Just Shoot Me!" (1 episode, 2001)
• Directing Eddie (2001)
• What Women Want (2000)
• Curtain Call (1999)
• My Girlfriend's Boyfriend (1999)
• Picture This (1999)
• "As the World Turns" (1956)
• "Walker, Texas Ranger" (1 episode, 1998)
• 54 (1998)
• Brown's Requiem (1998)
• Shame, Shame, Shame (1998)
• A Place Called Truth (1998)
• "The Practice" (1 episode, 1997)
• "Nash Bridges" (3 episodes, 1996)
• "ER" (2 episodes, 1995)
• The Break (1995)
• "Homicide: Life on the Street" (1 episode, 1995)
• Girl in the Cadillac (1995)
• "Burke's Law" (1 episode, 1994)
• "The Secrets of Lake Success" (1993)
• Boiling Point (1993)
• "Northern Exposure" (1 episode, 1992)
• Bright Angel (1991)
• Riflessi in un cielo scuro (1991)
• Mountain of Diamonds (1991)
• Sweet Bird of Youth (1989)
• Casa a Roma, Una (1988)
• Maid to Order (1987)
• "CBS Summer Playhouse" (1 episode, 1987)
• Rosa. Quattre storie di donne (1987)
• "Leo & Liz in Beverly Hills" (1986)
• Rose (1986) (TV)
• "George Burns Comedy Week" (1 episode, 1985)
• "Faerie Tale Theatre" (1 episode, 1985)
• Water (1985)
• Mask of Murder (1985)
• When Your Lover Leaves (1983)
• Malibu (1983)
• The Border (1982)
• Marian Rose White (1982)
• The Cannonball Run (1981)
• Superman II (1980)
• Can't Stop the Music (1980)
• Agency (1980)
• The Electric Horseman (1979)
• The Magician of Lublin (1979)
• Superman (1978)
• Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women (1978)
• Mr. Billion (1977)
• W.C. Fields and Me (1976)
• Lenny (1974)
• "Love Story" (1 episode, 1973)
• Lady Luck (1973)
• The Last American Hero (1973)
• Steambath (1973)
• The Couple Takes a Wife (1972)
• Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)
• Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

Awards

• BAFTA Award Most Promising Newcomer "Lenny" 1975
• Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award "Lenny" 1975
• United Motion Pictures Association Award Actress of the Year "Lenny" 1975
• National Board of Review Award Best Supporting Actress "Lenny" 1974
• New York Film Critics Circle Award Best Supporting Actress "Lenny" 1974