Marie Currie

Currie was born to Don Currie and actress Marie Harmon.^[1] She was raised in Encino with three siblings. Her brother is Don Currie Jr. She has an elder sister, actress Sondra Currie, and a twin sister, Cherie Currie. Marie was the first twin born.^[2]

Currie and her twin sister were given roles on an episode of My Three Sons at the age of two.^{[citation needed]} They were supposed to sing "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" with Fred MacMurray, but froze during filming, and their part was cut from the show.^[3] Before Currie and her sister rose to fame, they appeared on American Bandstand as background dancers.^[4]

While her sister Cherie was in the Runaways, Currie worked at a fast-food restaurant. She started the Marie Currie Band,^[5] but they never released a record. They were featured in magazine articles across the U.S. and Japan. She started her career as a singer by singing a duet with Cherie called "Love at First Sight".^[6] The song appeared on Cherie's debut album Beauty's Only Skin Deep.^{[citation needed]}

In 1979, Cherie and Marie released two singles, "Messin' with the Boys" and "Since You Been Gone". The latter reached number 95 on U.S. charts.^[7] In 1980, Cherie and Marie released their album, Messin' with the Boys,^[8] and the album received more radio play than Beauty's Only Skin Deep. They released another single that year titled "This Time".^{[citation needed]}

Cherie and Marie performed on television shows in the 1980s, including Sha Na Na, The Mike Douglas Show, and The Merv Griffin Show^[9] In 1984, they played the singing maids in The Rosebud Beach Hotel. The twins sang, wrote, and produced songs for the film and its soundtrack, That film was Marie's acting debut.^[10] In 1991, they performed at a tribute concert to Paula Pierce, a member of the Pandoras. For the final performance, the remaining Pandoras backed the Curries.^[11]

Currie performed with her sister's band, the Runaways, at a reunion that included Jackie Fox and Sandy West.^[12] In 1997, she worked as a mortgage banker, along with her brother Don.^[13] She later became a sales and branch development manager for a lending company founded by her brother.^{[citation needed]}

In 1997, Cherie and Marie re-released Messin' with the Boys with seven bonus tracks,^[8] In 1998, they held a concert at the Golden Apple in support of the re-release, Cherie's ex-bandmate West joined Cherie on stage to perform some of the Runaways songs.^[14] In 1998, Cherie and Marie released a compilation called Young and Wild,^[15] In 1999, Rocket City Records released Cherie's album The 80's Collection. The album features guest work done by Marie.^[16][17]

On January 30, 2014, her novel The Narrow Road of Light was published.^[18]

Currie dated Toto guitarist Steve Lukather in the late 70s, and they got married on November 7, 1981. They had two children, Tina (born May 13, 1985)^[19] and Trevor (born May 4, 1987).^[20] Currie and Lukather divorced in the early 1990s.

In 2014, they appeared on the cover of Steel Notes Magazine (alongside singer Debbie Harry, and model Josi Kat) with a lengthy feature story on her life and work featured in the issue.^[21]

On the cover of the Runaways "Neon Angels on the Roads to Ruin" single Currie's twin is wearing a shirt with Marie's name on it.

Currie's then husband, Steve Lukather, wrote and dedicated Toto's songs, "I Won't Hold You Back" and "I'll Be Over You" to her.^{[citation needed]}

Harmony Korine has stated that the characters Dot and Helen Darby (played by Chloë Sevigny and Carisa Glucksman) in his 1997 film Gummo "were based off [sic] a combination of Cherie and Marie Currie, home schooling, and the Shaggs."^[22]

In 2018, a photo of Marie Currie appeared in Bad Reputation, a documentary about the career of Cherie's ex-bandmate, Joan Jett. In the documentary, Kim Fowley tells the story of how he would not allow them both to join the Runaways because he did not want a set of identical twins being backed by an all-girl rock band. Therefore, only Cherie joined.^[23]

Currie was portrayed by Riley Keough in the film The Runaways, about the band of the same name.^[24]