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Tammy Faye Bakker
International Falls, Minnesota, USA
Tamara Faye "Tammy" Messner (née LaValley; March 7, 1942 – July 20, 2007), formerly Tammy Faye Bakker, was an American Christian singer, evangelist, entrepreneur, author, talk sho…
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Tamara Faye "Tammy" Messner (née LaValley; March 7, 1942 – July 20, 2007), formerly Tammy Faye Bakker, was an American Christian singer, evangelist, entrepreneur, author, talk show host, and television personality. She initially gained notice for her work with The PTL Club, a televangelist program she co-founded with her husband Jim Bakker in 1974. Prior to founding The PTL Club, they had hosted their own puppet show series for local programming in Minnesota in the early 1970s, and Messner also had a career as a recording artist. In 1978, she and Bakker built Heritage USA, a Christian theme park. Messner would garner significant publicity when Jim Bakker was indicted, convicted, and imprisoned on numerous counts of fraud and conspiracy in 1989, resulting in the dissolution of The PTL Club. After divorcing Bakker in 1992, she remarried to Roe Messner. She was diagnosed with colon cancer in 1996, of which she suffered intermittently for over a decade before dying of the disease in 2007. Over the course of her career, Messner was noted for her eccentric and glamorous persona, as well as for her moral views that diverged from those of many mainstream Evangelists, particularly her acceptance of the LGBT community and reaching out to HIV/AIDS patients at the height of the AIDS epidemic. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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2024
Better Angels: The Gospel According to Tammy Faye
TV show Self
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2018
The Front Runner
Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2012
Vanilla Ice Archive
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2006
One Punk Under God
TV show Self - Jay's Mom
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2005
Tammy Faye Death Defying
Movie Herself
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2003
Windy City Heat
Movie Self
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2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV show Self
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2003
The Surreal Life
TV show Self
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2002
Marilyn Manson - Guns, God and Government World Tour
Movie Himself
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2000
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Movie Herself
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1999
Where Are They Now?
TV show Self
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1996
E! True Hollywood Story
TV show
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1995
The Drew Carey Show
TV show Mrs. Tammy Bobeck
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1993
Intimate Portrait
TV show Self
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1990
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1988
Roseanne
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1988
Praise the Lord
Movie Self
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1988
Thy Kingdom Come ... Thy Will Be Done
Movie Self - TV Hostess (archive footage)
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The PTL Club
TV show Herself - Host
