In addition to appearing in horror films between 2008 and 2012, Dixon, a 45-year-old from Norton Shores, has worked in the steel industry and in the media.
Dixon, who was born and raised in Illinois, obtained a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Kentucky before relocating to Michigan in 2002,
When her father Vaughn Makary, recently dead, bought the Muskegon foundry of West Michigan Steel in a bankruptcy sale and started running it as Michigan Steel.