Denise DuBarry

As an actress, she is best known for her role as Samantha Green on the television series Black Sheep Squadron, and as Johanna Franklin in the film Being There. She was a pioneer in the infomercial industry as a producer of Play the Piano Overnight in 1988 which won the Billboard Music Award for Best Music Instruction Video that year and then Play the Guitar Overnight which won the 1991 Billboard Music Award for Best Music Instruction. She is the mother of actress Samantha Lockwood.

DuBarry was born in Killeen, Texas at the Fort Hood Army Base to Adrian Pierre DuBarry and his wife, Betty Louise (née King). Her parents moved back to Louisiana where they were from so that her father could finish his master's degree at LSU in Baton Rouge. The family later moved to Honduras, Mexico, Guatemala and Costa Rica, where DuBarry grew up from ages 2 to 10, and learned to speak fluent Spanish. The family moved throughout California, eventually settling in Granada Hills, California where DuBarry attended middle school and high school. After her parents' divorce, as the eldest of five siblings, she was responsible at age 14 with looking after her younger siblings while her mother worked. Read Less