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Jeramie Rain

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Jeramie Rain was born on August 23, 1948 in Charleston, West Virginia. After appearing on episodes of General Hospital (1963) and The Doctors (1963), she gained international recognition in 1972 for her convincing portrayal of the sadistic Sadie in Wes Craven's controversial debut film The Last House on the Left (1972). Her other roles include the cheerleader Jane in The Abductors (1972) and Willie Mae in Preacherman Meets Widderwoman (1973). Outside of acting, Rain has also worked as a writer and producer at NBC, at both the Rockefeller Center and Los Angeles locations. In 1983, Jeramie married actor Richard Dreyfuss; she had three children with Dreyfuss prior to divorcing him in 1995. In the early 90s, Jeramie founded "Mother's Touch", which is a Los Angeles-based charity that helps out children diagnosed with serious illnesses. She was interviewed in the retrospective documentary, Celluloid Crime of the Century (2003). Rain now works as producer and scriptwriter for daytime television programs in Los Angeles.
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Works as a script writer and producer for daytime TV shows in Los Angeles.
Used to work as a production assistant for NBC and for the daytime soap opera The Doctors (1963).

[on The Abductors (1972)] I wasn't too happy with it because I didn't know I was supposed to do a nude scene.
[on The Abductors (1972)] I was like twenty-one years old; we're shooting out in New Jersey, and the next thing I know they made us take our clothes off. I was just mortified. I remember the one time I saw the film I could tell I was just dying of embarrassment.
[on The Last House on the Left (1972)] I got paid $600 to do Last House and that was for six weeks worth of work. They didn't pay us much back then.
[on Sean S. Cunningham] He said this to all of us, that he would take all of us on to bigger and better things. They took none of us on to anything. And you know they made a lot of money off Last House. They still make a lot of money off Last House.
I've had lupus for years. It's an autoimmune disease that's quite common and unfortunately incurable. Your body is basically allergic to itself. It's painful and scary, but I'm doing well. I plan to not die from it. They diagnosed me when I was twenty-eight, and the life expectancy back then was three years. And I'm still here in my fifties. And I'm great. I have a great life. I can't complain about anything.

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