Tall, lovely and willowy blonde Simone Griffeth was born on April 4, 1950, in Savannah, Georgia. She was a Theater Arts major at the University of South Carolina for three years. While attending college Simone wrote, put together and acted in a weekly children's show for a Columbia television station. She appeared in a TV commercial at age fifteen. She made her film debut with a charming performance as the titular sweet innocent country lass in the enjoyable redneck exploitation item Swamp Girl (1971). She was likewise well cast as another naive hillbilly gal in the sordid Sixteen (1973) and was excellent as David Carradine's enticing co-driver Annie Smith in Paul Bartel's wickedly funny sci-fi black comedy cult classic La course à la mort de l'an 2000 (1975). Simone was at her sexiest as the bored wife of a neglectful millionaire in Hot Target (1985) and was once again solid in the entertaining Crown International action opus The Patriot (1986).
Among the many TV shows Griffeth has done guest spots on are Les dessous de Palm Beach (1991), Les craquantes (1985), Magnum (1980), Riptide (1984), Hooker (1982), Shérif, fais-moi peur! (1979), Ralph Super-héros (1981), Three's Company (1977), Hawaï, police d'état (1968), L'incroyable Hulk (1978), Starsky et Hutch (1975) and L'homme qui valait 3 milliards (1974).
Simone Griffeth now teaches acting and works along with her husband Wayne McDonald as a real estate agent for high-end Low Country properties in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
