Deborah Reed

Deborah Reed née Deborah Claire Hansen was an actress model author and educator She is most well known for her role as Creedence Leonore Gielgud in the 1990 cult classic fantasy horror film Troll 2 Born on October 29th 1950 in Salt Lake City Utah Reed dabbled in drama during her high school years and appeared in the unreleased film Educated Heart with Anthony Geary and Anne Archer After her family migrated to Spokane Washington in 1970 she began performing in musical theater as well as directing and writing for the stage In 1980 she was picked up by the McCarty Agency and spent the next few decades as a print model makeup artist and actor in various advertisements For 15 years she also taught classes for children aspiring to break into the entertainment industry In 1989 she was cast in Claudio Fragassos Troll 2 which would become her defining acting role From 1997 to 2000 she was Executive Assistant to US Congressman Merrill Cook where she headed the Bicentennial Local Legacies project for Utahs Native American community and cohosted Cooks radio show creating commercial spots for the program In the mid2000s she married radio personality Randy Holman and the couple formed a production company On Fire Productions and hosted the television series Its All About Homes until Holmans death from cancer in 2012 In her later years she became an author of childrens books as well as an advocate for shelter animals and ecofriendly living She ran the blog Deba Do Tell and the Facebook page Go Green with the Troll 2 Queen and would regularly interact with her fans In 2017 Reed was diagnosed with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia which later evolved into Richters Syndrome She died on November 18th 2023 due to complications of cancer Deborah was the mother of artistanimator Gavin Reed and software engineer Remington Reed founders of Hey Bud Games