Legend’s Diva

Background:

The youngest daughter of the legendary musician-composer Frank Zappa (1940-1993), Diva Zappa once performed on stage in 1993 at London's Marquee Club (now long gone) with the band "Z" (featuring her siblings Ahmet and Dweezil Zappa) and later released her own single, "When the Ball Drops." She is also an actress who has appeared in Anarchy TV (1998), Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998; V), Play Dead (2001) and Elizabethtown (2005). She will also appear in William Heins' upcoming comedy starring Paris Hilton, Pledge This! (2006; V).


Diva Muffin

Childhood and Family:

The youngest child of legendary eclectic rocker/composer/satirist Frank Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) with his second wife Adelaide Gail Sloatman, Diva Muffin Zappa was born on July 30, 1979, in Los Angeles, California. In a 1982 interview, her father admitted that Diva was given the name as she was screaming louder than all the other infants in the hospital nursery. Diva is the sister of Moon Unit Zappa (stand-up comic, writer, actress; born September 28, 1967), Dweezil Zappa (heavy metal guitarist; born September 5, 1969) and Ahmet Zappa (musician; born May 15, 1974).


When the Ball Drops

Career:

At the tender age of 6 months, Diva Zappa made her first on screen appearance on his father’s movie Baby Snakes (1979), which contains tons of on-stage footage, off-stage footage and animation of his 1977 Halloween concert at New York City's Palladium Theater. Twelve years later, she again appeared as herself in a documentary about his father, Peefeeyatko (1991), written and directed by Henning Lohner.

In 1998, Diva joined her siblings, Moon Unit, Dweezil and Ahmet Zappa, in a drama comedy movie helmed by Jonathan Blank, Anarchy TV. That same year, she reunited with brother Ahmet in the fifth installment of the Children of the corn series, Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (V; also starring Greg Vaughan, Eva Mendes, Alexis Arquette, Kane Hodder and David Carradine).

On television, she shared the screen with Lukas Haas, Sidney Poitier and Brittany Murphy in a made-for-TV film based on the novel by Theodore Isaac Rubin, David and Lisa. She was also spotted as a guest in an October 1999 episode of The WB's teen drama starring Keri Russell, "Felicity."

In 2001, Diva appeared in Chuck Griffith's drama comedy set in 1994, Thank You, Good Night (starring Christian Campbell and Lara Boyd Rhodes). She also played a leading role, as Nathan Bexton's best girl friend named Violet, in writer-director Jeff Jenkins' comedy Play Dead.

After four years “disappeared” from the screen, Diva returned in with a guest role in a February 2005 episode of CBS and CTV’s cop drama "CSI: NY." She also has an uncredited turn in writer-director Cameron Crowe's romantic drama comedy starring Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst, Elizabethtown (2005; (also featuring Susan Sarandon, Alec Baldwin and Jessica Biel). She will soon appear in William Heins' comedy starring Paris Hilton, Pledge This! (2006; V).

Adding to her acting career, Diva, who once performed on stage in 1993 at London's Marquee Club (now long gone) with the band "Z" (featuring Ahmet and Dweezil Zappa), has also followed his father’s foot step. She has released a single, "When the Ball Drops," which features Tipper Gore's daughter playing the drums.


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