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Biography
redirect|Moon unit|the space vehicle|lunar roverInfobox person|name =Moon Zappa|image =Moon zappa portrait 1988.jpg|caption =Moon Zappa, 1988|birth_name =Moon Unit Zappa|birth_date =Birth date and age|df=yes|1967|9|28|birth_place =New York City, United States|other_names =|occupation =|years_active =|spouse = Paul Doucette (June 2002)|website = Moon Unit Zappa (born September 28, 1967) is an American actress, musician, and author. She goes by the name Moon Zappa ; "Unit" is her middle name.
Personal life
Zappa was born in New York City, the eldest child of Gail Zappa , who worked in business, and musician Frank Zappa . http://www.filmreference.com/film/80/Moon-Unit-Zappa.html Moon Unit Zappa Biography (1967-), Filmreference.com She has three younger siblings, Dweezil Zappa|Dweezil , Ahmet Zappa|Ahmet , and Diva Zappa|Diva . Zappa's father was of Sicilian, Greek-Arab and French ancestry and her mother was of Danish, French, Irish and Portuguese ancestry.cite book|last=Miles|first=Barry|authorlink= Barry Miles|coauthors=|title=Zappa|publisher=Grove Press|year=2004|location=|pages=124|month=|url= http://books.google.com/? id=2pPgG9AXjN4C& printsec=frontcover|isbn=978-0-8021-1783-0 Zappa attended Oakwood School in North Hollywood, California. She married Paul Doucette , a drummer and guitarist, in June 2002. They have one child, Mathilda Plum Doucette, born December 21, 2004. Zappa filed for divorce in January 2012. Cite web|title= Frank Zappa Daughter Moon Unit Files Divorce |url= http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2082451/Frank-Zappa-daughter-Moon-Unit-files-divorce-Matchbox-20-guitarist-Paul-Doucette.html#ixzz1teRYj1H2 |work= Daily Mail |date= 2012-1-4|accessdate= 2012-5-10
Career
Apart from the novelty of her and her siblings' names, she first came to public attention in 1982, at the age of fourteen, as a vocalist on her father's Top 40 hit single " Valley Girl (song)|Valley Girl ". The song featured Moon Zappa delivering a monologue in " valleyspeak ", a collection of slang terms popular with teenage girls in the San Fernando Valley , Los Angeles. In the mid-1980s, Moon and her brother Dweezil were frequent guest VJ (media personality)|VJs on MTV. Next to "Dancin' Fool", "Valley Girl" was Frank Zappa's biggest hit in the United States, and popularized phrases such as "grody to the max" and "gag me with a spoon". The song appeared on her father's 1982 album Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch . She later made another recording titled " My Mother Is a Space Cadet ", with guitar accompaniment by her brother Dweezil. She also guest-starred on The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!|The Super Mario Bros. Super Show as Marylin.
As an adult she has worked as a stand-up comedy|stand-up comic , magazine writer, and actress in the films '' National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985), Spirit of '76 (1990 film)|Spirit of '76 and the television situation comedy|sitcom Normal Life . She appeared as a burqa -clad Muslim woman in one episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm '', as Ted Mosby's cousin Stacy in an episode of How I Met Your Mother and on an episode ("Pampered to a Pulp") of Roseanne (TV series)|Roseanne .IMDb episode|0688854|Pampered to a Pulp She worked as a VJ on VH-1 in the mid-late 1990s.Citation needed|date=August 2011 She also appeared on Rock & Roll Jeopardy! , losing to Dave Mustaine and George Clinton (musician)|George Clinton .
She is the author of the novel America, the Beautiful , published in 2001,Zappa, Moon Unit. America the Beautiful: A Novel . New York: Scribner Paperback Fiction, 2001. ISBN 978-0-7432-1383-7 and articles in major periodicals.Cite web|last= Zappa |first= Moon Unit |title= One Street at a Time; Positively Third Street |url= http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html? res=9B03E6D91338F93BA25752C1A9679C8B63 |work= The New York Times |date= 2001-11-18 |accessdate= 2008-11-04
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External links
http://moonzappa.com/ Moon Zappa's Website
http://www.nndb.com/people/420/000025345/ Moon Unit Zappa on NNDB
IMDb name|0953262
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