Cassandra Peterson is an American actress best known for her on-screen horror hostess character Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. She gained fame on Los Angeles television station KHJ wearing a black, gothic, cleavage-enhancing gown as host of Movie Macabre, a weekly horror movie presentation. Her wickedly vampish appearance is offset by her comical character, quirky/quick-witted personality, and valley girl-type speech.

Filmography

• 2026R.L. Stine's Pumpkinhead 2 — Cassandra
• 2026Vincent Price: What Keeps Us Alive
• 2023The SF Sketchfest Roast of Bruce Campbell — Elvira
• Charles Band’s Full Moon Freakshow
• Dr. Jackie — Cassandra Peterson
• 2022The Munsters — Barbara Carr
• DOTA: Dragon's Blood — Lirrak (voice)
• Elvira's 40th Anniversary, Very Scary, Very Special Special — Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
• Netflix and Chills with Dr. Elvira — Elvira
• 2020Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo! — Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (voice)
• 2020In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover — Host - Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
• 2020The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault — (archive footage)
• 2019Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island — Elvira (voice)
• 2017Kuso — Wardrobe Assistant
• 2016LEGO Scooby-Doo! Haunted Hollywood — Drella Diabolique (voice)
• 13 Nights of Elvira — Elvira
• Elvira's 10 Nights of Halloween — Elvira
• 2013Bruno & Earlene Go to Vegas — Artie Duke
• 2013First Period — Ms. Glenn
• The Goldbergs — Elvira
• Comic Book Men — Elvira
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — Ms. Campbell (voice)
• 2011Devil's Night — Elvira
• Face Off — Elvira
• Last Man Standing — Elvira
• 2010All About Evil — Linda
• Elvira's Movie Macabre — Elvira
• 2010Elvira's Movie Macabre: The Satanic Rites Of Dracula — Elvira, Writer, Executive Producer
• 2010Elvira’s Movie Macabre: Night Of The Living Dead — Elvira, Writer
• 2009The Haunted World of El Superbeasto — Amber (voice)
• 2008The Boneyard Collection — Elvira (segment "Her Morbid Desires")
• 2007The Return of the Living Dead: The Decade of Darkness — Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
• The Search for the Next Elvira — Producer, Creator
• 2006American Scary — Elvira (archive footage)
• Elvira's Something Weird — Elvira
• 2006Red Riding Hood — Hunter's Mom
• Medium — Elvira
• Elvira's Horror Classics — Elvira
• Elvira's Movies to Die For — Elvira
• 2004Hollywood's Creepiest Creatures — Elvira
• Monsterama — Elvira
• 2002Elvira's Haunted Hills — Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, Writer, Characters
• 2000Bride of Monster Mania — Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
• Raise the Dead Featuring Elvira — Elvira
• 1999Attack of the 50 Foot Monster Mania — Elvira
• 1999Encounter in the Third Dimension — Elvira
• 1998Sex Files: Portrait of the Soul — Thanks
• EP Daily
• 1997KCAL Halloween Scream — Elvira
• 1997Monster Mania — Elvira
• 1997Superstition — Elvira
• 1997Thrill Ride: The Science of Fun — Elvira
• 1996Dear God — Cassandra Peterson (uncredited)
• E! True Hollywood Story
• 1996It's My Party — Party Guest
• 1996The Ketchup Vampires II — Elvira
• 1995Attack of the Killer B-Movies — Elvira
• 1995Halloween Jam II at Universal Studios — Elvira
• 1995The Ketchup Vampires — Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
• Space Ghost Coast to Coast — Elvira
• 1993Acting on Impulse — Roxy
• Elvira's Halloween Movie Schlock-A-Thon — Elvira
• 1993The Elvira Show — Elvira, Writer
• 1992Heartstoppers: Horror at the Movies — Elvira
• 1992WrestleMania: The Greatest Hits — Elvira
• 1991Hulkamania 6 — Elvira - Commentator
• 1991Ted & Venus — Lisa
• 1991The Crawling Hand — Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
• 1991The Horror Hall of Fame II — Elvira - Presenter
• Midnight Madness — Elvira
• Parker Lewis Can't Lose — Elvira
• Elvira's Thriller Theatre — Elvira
• Heavy Metal Heaven Hosted by Elvira — Elvira
• The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! — Elvira
• 1988Elvira: Mistress of the Dark — Elvira / Aunt Morgana Talbot, Writer
• 1988Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz — Elvira
• 1988Metallica - Live at Hammersmith Odeon — Elvira
• thirtysomething
• 1986Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold — Sorais
• 1986Elvira's Halloween Special — Elvira, Writer
• 1986Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors — Elvira
• 1986WrestleMania II — Elvira / Guest Commentator
• 1985Echo Park — Sheri
• Elvira's ThrillerVideo — Elvira
• 1985Get Out of My Room
• 1985Pee-wee's Big Adventure — Biker Mama
• 1984Cheeseball Presents — Elvira
• 1984Elvira's MTV Halloween Party — Elvira - Hostess
• 1984Last of the Great Survivors — Elvira
• 1984Uncensored — Skit characters
• 1983Balboa — Angie Stoddard
• 1983Filmgore — Elvira
• 1983Stroker Ace — Girl with Lugs
• 1983The Paragon of Comedy — Elvira
• 1983The Sting II — O'Malley's Girl
• 1982Elvira's Movie Macabre: Legacy of Blood — Elvira
• 1982Famous T & A — Katya (archive footage)
• 1982Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again — Busty Nurse
• St. Elsewhere — Judy
• 1982The Best of Sex and Violence — (archive footage)
• Elvira's Movie Macabre — Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, Writer, Creator
• 1981King of the Mountain — Neighbor
• Beyond Westworld — Dance Hall Girl
• 1980Cheech & Chong's Next Movie — Hostage (Groundling)
• 1980Coast to Coast — Dinner Party Guest
• Fantasy Island — Ftatateetah
• CHiPs — Elvira
• Alice
• Saturday Night Live — Elvira
• 1974The Working Girls — Katya
• 1972Roma — (uncredited)
• 1971Diamonds Are Forever — Shady Tree's Acorn (uncredited)
• Untitled KROQ Documentary

Appearances as themselves (34)

• Celebrity Weakest Link — Self - Contestant
• Pee-wee as Himself — Self
• John Mulaney Presents: Everybody's in L.A. — Self
• 2023Commitment to Life — Self (archive footage)
• 2022In Search of Darkness: Part III — Self
• The Boulet Brothers' Dragula: Titans — Self - Guest Judge
• 2021Le Passeur immobile — Self
• 2020AGFA Mystery Mixtape #1 — Self
• 2020In Search of Darkness: Part II — Self
• 2019In Search of Darkness — Self
• The Tamron Hall Show — Self - Guest
• 2018Making Fun: The Story of Funko — Self
• 2018Too Macabre: The Making of Elvira, Mistress of the Dark — Self
• 2017To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story — Self
• To Tell the Truth — Self - Elvira
• 2014Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films — Self - Actress
• 2014Scream Queens: Horror Heroines Exposed — Self
• 2013Rewind This! — Self
• RuPaul Drives... — Self - Guest
• Counting Cars — Self
• RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars — Self - Guest Judge
• Halloween Wars — Self - Guest Judge
• 2010Let’s Spend the Night Together: Confessions of Rock’s Greatest Groupies — self
• RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked — Self - Guest Judge
• Celebrity Ghost Stories — Self
• RuPaul's Drag Race — Self - Special Honoree, Self - Guest Judge, Self - Judge (archive footage)
• 2006Vampira: The Movie — Herself
• 2006Witch's Dungeon: 40 Years of Chills — Self
• 2004Monsterama: A Tribute to Horror Hosts — Self
• The Tony Danza Show — Self - Guest (as Elvira)
• Hollywood Squares — Self - Panelist
• 1994Spooky World — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
• Cinema Insomnia — Self