Louise Robey

After high school, Robey travelled to Aix-en-Provence. French photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue spotted her sunbathing at a hotel pool, took her photograph, and invited her to become a model.[7][4][8] Lartigue photographed Robey for Paris Match and Vogue Paris. Robey moved to Paris, where she swiftly attained success as a fashion model.[7] She also began a music career, busking in the streets and fronting the ska-punk band Louise and the Creeps signed to CBS France and UK by president Alain Levy.[6] In the early 1980s, Robey moved to New York City, where she worked as a catwalk model earning $5,000 a day[9] and appeared in advertising campaigns for Maybelline, Jordache, Revlon, L'Oreal and Clairol amongst many others. She has appeared in many magazines from Vogue to Cosmopolitan internationally.[10]

Although Louise and the Creeps were signed to a record deal with CBS France/UK by CBS head Alain Levy, under the wing of Andy Warhol and Michael Butler [producer of the musical Hair], and offered a signing by Chris Blackwell, Island records, they broke up in New York before recording an album. In 1984, Robey landed a solo record deal with CBS/Sony and recorded a self-titled album. Six singles from the album were released. One single, a cover of the song "One Night in Bangkok" from the musical Chess, became an international hit.[7] Robey's version of the song spent three weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 in March 1985, peaking at No. 77.[11] It fared much better on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart, peaking at No.3.[12]She signed to Chrysalis records in 1986 and had a hit dance record I Surrender/Hungry For You Boy.

While working as a musician, Robey continued to model and also became involved in improvisational comedy, performing with the famed troupe M.I.C.E.[Mike's improv comedy experiment] in theatres and clubs throughout California. She also appeared in stage roles in dinner theater. In 1986, Robey had small roles in the films The Money Pit and Raw Deal. The following year, she beat out 300-plus other actresses for the role of Michelle "Micki" Foster, niece of antiques dealer Lewis Vendredi, on the syndicated science-fiction series Friday the 13th: The Series, which Frank Mancuso Jr. produced. Foster is a young woman who inherits an antique shop from Lewis Vendredi (R. G. Armstrong), her estranged uncle. When the antiques in the shop prove to have been cursed by the devil, Foster, Ryan Dallion (John D. LeMay), her cousin by marriage, and family friend Jack Marshak (Chris Wiggins) begin to hunt down and recover the antiques before they can kill or cause the damnations of the souls of anyone else. The show, which was filmed in Toronto,[4] was a hit with audiences and became one of the top-three syndicated dramas airing at the time, second only to Star Trek.[8]She was nominated for best actress by the Saturns. The sophisticated glamour and feisty charm Robey imparted to the character earned the show a cult following.[13] She later recalled convincing the producers to give Foster her fashion-forward and striking look.[13]She quit L.A. for good to return to Europe after auditioning for and being accepted to Oxford University to study Shakespearean Theatre under Sir Derek Jacobi, whence she graduated with honors. In 1993 she received a Spanish Arts award in Madrid.

In December 2013, Robey released a new single, "Take It to the Top," a collaboration with recording artist Lovari. The single debuted at No. 87 on the iTunes U.S. Dance Chart. In 2010, she released Anthology Part One 1979 to 2009 on Amazon, a collection of her songs. A new album is in the works. She is currently in preproduction as creator/writer/producer of "Satan's Ark" in the UK/France.

• Robey (1985, CBS/Sony)
• Music Anthology... Part 1: 1979-2009 (2011, Amazon/TuneCore Records)

• "Web of Desire" (with White Lion) (1986, The Money Pit soundtrack)

• Wax, Alyse (2016). Curious Goods: Behind the Scenes of Friday the 13th: The Series. BearManor Media.