Moon Unit Zappa is an American actress
and author.
Personal life
Moon Zappa was born in New York City,
the eldest child of Gail and famous
musician Frank Zappa. She has three
younger siblings, Dweezil, Ahmet, and
Diva Muffin. Zappa's father was of
Sicilian, Greek-Arab, and French
ancestry, and her mother is of French,
Irish, and mostly Danish ancestry. Zappa
attended Oakwood School in North
Hollywood, California. She married Paul
Doucette, former drummer and current
rhythm guitarist for American pop group
Matchbox Twenty, in June 2002. They have
one child, Mathilda Plum Doucette, born
December 21, 2004. Zappa filed for
divorce in January 2012. The divorce was
finalized in early 2014.
Career
Apart from the novelty of her and her
siblings' names, she first came to
public attention in 1982, at the age of
fourteen, as a vocalist on her father's
Top 40 hit single, "Valley Girl". The
song featured Moon Zappa delivering a
monologue in "valleyspeak", a collection
of slang terms popular with teenage
girls in the San Fernando Valley, Los
Angeles. In the mid-1980s, Moon and her
brother Dweezil were frequent guest VJs
on MTV. "Valley Girl" was Frank Zappa's
biggest hit in the United States, and
popularized phrases such as "grody to
the max" and "gag me with a spoon". The
song appeared on her father's 1982 album
Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a
Drowning Witch. She later made another
recording titled "My Mother Is a Space
Cadet", with guitar accompaniment by her
brother Dweezil.
As a child, she acted in the television
series CHiPs, The Facts of Life, and the
film Nightmares.
As an adult she has worked as a stand-up
comic, magazine writer, and actress,
appearing in the films National
Lampoon's European Vacation and Spirit
of '76, the television sitcom Normal
Life, and The Super Mario Bros. Super
Show. She appeared as a niqab-clad
Muslim woman in one episode of Curb Your
Enthusiasm, as Ted Mosby's cousin Stacy
in an episode of How I Met Your Mother,
and on an episode of Roseanne. Most
recently, she was the voice of Mrs.
Lamber on FOX Broadcasting's Animation
Domination High-Def series High School
USA!.
She is the author of the novel America,
the Beautiful, published in 2001. She
has also written for The New York Times.
References
External links
Moon Zappa at the Internet Movie
Database
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast - Episode
434 - Moon Zappa mp3
Zappa Family Album
