Tammy Faye Bakker

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1942-03-07 (65 years old)

Deathday

2007-07-20

Place of Birth

International Falls, Minnesota, USA

Tammy Faye Bakker

Biography

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 w...

Acting

1988

Thy Kingdom Come ... Thy Will Be Done

as Self - TV Hostess (archive footage)

1988

2012

Vanilla Ice Archive

as Self (archive footage)

1990

Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2003

2018

The Front Runner

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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