Years active: 1968 - 2008 (started around 20 years old; 40 years in the business)
Piercings: ears
About Erica Gavin
Erica Gavin is a former film actress best known for playing the title role in Russ Meyer's 1968 film Vixen! She also had a parts in Meyer's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) and Jonathan Demme's Caged Heat (1974).
At age 19, Gavin worked as a topless dancer in Hollywood with two other future Russ Meyer stars, Haji and Tura Satana. While waiting in a dentist's office she saw an advertisement in Variety for girls to audition for the new Russ Meyer movie. She auditioned and won the role which launched her to B movie stardom.
Gavin currently resides in Los Angeles, California, where she works as a stylist and occasionally makes appearances at movie memorabilia conventions. She has said in an interview that she is bisexual.