Depending on your genre preferences, actress Diane Franklin might be known to you as some very different characters. Those who love comedies know her as one of the princesses in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure or Better Off Dead‘s foreign exchange student Monique Junet. Horror fans recognize her from Amityville II: The Possession or TerrorVision, with the real heads having caught her in the syndicated series Freddy’s Nightmares: Nightmare on Elm Street the Series. She’s been in the iconic drama The Last American Virgin and TV series from Matlock to Encyclopedia Brown.
This isn’t merely to list her IMDB credits, but to show that, for the better part of the late ’80s into the early ’90s, Diane Franklin was omnipresent. Once she married her husband, animation writer Ray DeLaurentis, in 1989