![]() Her sister, entertainer Gypsy Rose Lee (born as Rose Louise Hovick), was called "Louise" by her family members. Her life-long career in show business began when she was a child, billed as "Baby June." Her mother forged various birth certificates for both her daughters to evade child labor laws. She was reportedly uncertain of the year. Havoc acknowledged in her later years that 1912 was likely the correct year. For many years 1916 was cited as her year of birth. Her elder sister Louise gravitated to burlesque and became the well-known striptease performer Gypsy Rose Lee.Įllen Evangeline Hovick was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She last acted on television in 1990 in a story arc on the soap opera General Hospital, and she last appeared on television as herself in interviews in the "Vaudeville" episode of American Masters in 1997 and in "The Rodgers & Hart: Thou Swell, Thou Witty" episode of Great Performances in 1999. She later acted on Broadway and in Hollywood, and stage-directed, both on and off-Broadway. ![]() Havoc was a child vaudeville performer under the tutelage of her mother Rose Thompson Hovick, born Rose Evangeline Thompson. June Havoc (born Ellen Evangeline Hovick Novem– March 28, 2010) was an American actress, dancer, stage director and memoirist. ![]()
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