As Toronto, Canada writer Jason Anderson summarized her work through 1996, "She's been appearing in various states of undress for artistic purposes since her performance art daze in late-'70s New York he was indie rock's thinking vixen." She appeared in the 1990 Redd Kross music video for the song "Annie's Gone", written about her.
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In the 1996 telefilm The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas, Magnuson played Lily Munster from the original 1960s TV series The Munsters. Her TV guest appearances include an episode each of the Lifetime cable-network fiction-suspense anthology The Hidden Room the cult-hit, surrealistic comedy-drama The Adventures of Pete and Pete and Salute Your Shorts on the children's cable television network Nickelodeon the sitcoms The John Larroquette Show, The Drew Carey Show, Caroline in the City, and Frasier and the police procedural drama CSI: Miami. Magnuson's film roles have included a snarly real estate agent in Panic Room, Alan's mother in Small Soldiers, a madam in Tank Girl, Mel Gibson's "money junkie" ex-wife in Tequila Sunrise, Tom Berenger's estranged but horny ex-girlfriend in Love at Large, a secretary in Clear and Present Danger, and a sexy victim of David Bowie's vampire in The Hunger. Club 57 was known for its theme nights such as Reggae Miniature Golf, or Model World of Glue Night.įrom 1989 to 1992, Magnuson played Catherine Hughes, the comically hip editor-in-chief of a Chicago magazine in the television sitcom Anything But Love, opposite Jamie Lee Curtis and comedian Richard Lewis, and played a liberal political commentator on comedian Wanda Sykes' 2003 Fox Broadcasting sitcom Wanda at Large. It became a center of a world that included Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf, and many others from New York's budding graffiti and downtown scenes. The club was located in the basement of the Polish National church. In the late '70s and early '80s, Magnuson ran Club 57, in New York City's East Village. Magnuson made her film debut in the 1982 film Vortex.
I was just this little hick from West Virginia and I was meeting a celebrity, an icon, somebody who had made it" ” I honestly can't remember the exact moment but I know I was dazzled. I met him in 1978 when I got to New York City and was hanging out at CBGB. I immediately started hanging out at all the clubs that he hung out in, and I wanted to go to the places that I'd seen on television. “ I watched An American Family alone in the kitchen and none of my other family members were interested in it, and I was fascinated, as everybody my age was, by Lance, and I really think that's what got me there. In an interview for the 2002 WETA-TV-PBS special Lance Loud! A Death in An American Family, Magnuson credited the idea of Loud - a member of an all-American family filmed day-in/day-out for the landmark PBS documentary An American Family, who came out as gay during the course of that documentary miniseries - with inspiring her to leave West Virginia for New York:
Later, in the 1990s, Magnuson fronted the satirical faux-heavy metal band Vulcan Death Grip. She created such characters as "Anoushka", a Soviet lounge singer, wearing a wig backwards and singing mock-Russian lyrics to pop music standards, and separately sang in an all-girl percussion group, Pulsallama, whose 1982 single "The Devil Lives In My Husband's Body" was a housewife's lament of a spouse who appears to be possessed. After graduating from Denison University in 1978, she moved to New York City, New York and was a DJ and performer at Club 57 and the Mudd Club in Manhattan circa 1979 through the early 1980s, while pursuing a performance career on varied fronts. She attended Holz Elementary and George Washington High School in Charleston.
She had a brother, Bobby, who died in 1988 of complications from AIDS. Magnuson was born in Charleston, West Virginia to a journalist mother and a lawyer father.
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