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Viva is a Actor American born on 23 august 1938 at Syracuse (USA)

Viva

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Birth name Janet Susan Mary Hoffmann
Nationality USA
Birth 23 august 1938 (85 years) at Syracuse (USA)

Viva (born August 23, 1938) is an American actress, writer and a former Warhol superstar.

Biography

With former husband Michel Auder, Viva made and kept film diaries which included the birth of her first daughter, Alexandra (Alex) Auder. She was briefly engaged to the actor Anthony Herrera. They had one child together, the actress Gaby Hoffmann.

Though artistically successful, Viva was never very successful financially. In 1993, she was taken to housing court by the Chelsea Hotel, where she lived with her two daughters, for not paying her $920 a month rent for two years. Her daughter, Gabby, reflects, “We lived in a classless society. We’d spend a summer at Gore Vidal’s house in Italy, but we were on and off welfare.”

Viva wrote a book about Gabby called "Gabby at the Chelsea", a riff on "Eloise at the Plaza", as yet unpublished.

Viva currently lives in Palm Springs, California, where she paints landscapes.

Usually with

Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol
(11 films)
Brigid Berlin
Brigid Berlin
(7 films)
Taylor Mead
Taylor Mead
(6 films)
Louis Waldon
Louis Waldon
(6 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Viva (26 films)

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Actress

Nico Icon
Nico Icon (1995)
, 1h10
Origin German
Genres Biography, Documentary
Themes Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Nico, John Cale, Paul Morrissey, Tina Aumont, Viva, Jonas Mekas
Roles Herself
Rating71% 3.5891053.5891053.5891053.5891053.589105
Du mannequinat jusqu’à l’underground, de Berlin à New York en passant par Paris, l’itinéraire hors du commun de Christa Päffgen devenue la mythique Nico. Documentaire notamment ponctué de témoignages d’autres icônes avant-gardistes...
The Man Without a Face, 1h55
Directed by Mel Gibson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Nick Stahl, Mel Gibson, Margaret Whitton, Geoffrey Lewis, Gaby Hoffmann, Richard Masur
Roles Mrs. Cooper
Rating66% 3.3482953.3482953.3482953.3482953.348295
The film takes place in the late 1960s. For the past seven years, Justin McLeod (Gibson) has been living an isolated existence as a reclusive painter following a car accident which left him disfigured on the right side of his face and chest by burns sustained in a post-crash fire.
Paris, Texas, 2h27
Directed by Wim Wenders
Origin German
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about families, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Aurore Clément, Bernhard Wicki, Hunter Carson
Roles Woman on TV
Rating80% 4.0498454.0498454.0498454.0498454.049845
Travis Henderson (Harry Dean Stanton) is walking alone across a vast South Texas desert landscape. Looking for water, he enters a saloon and collapses. He is treated by a doctor (Bernhard Wicki), but does not speak or respond to questions. The doctor finds a phone number on Travis, calls the Los Angeles number, and reaches his brother, Walt Henderson (Dean Stockwell), who agrees to pick him up. When Walt arrives in Texas, he discovers that Travis is gone. When he finds him wandering alone, Walt tells his silent brother that he will take him back to Los Angeles. They stop at a motel, but Travis wanders off again. Walt finds him, and the two drive to a diner, where Walt begins to question the still silent Travis more forcefully about his disappearance. Walt and his wife, Anne (Aurore Clément), have not heard from Travis in four years. After Travis abandoned his son Hunter (Hunter Carson), Walt and Anne took care of him for four years. Travis is visibly moved by the mention of his son, and tears flow from his eyes.
Forbidden Zone, 1h13
Directed by Richard Elfman
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Comedy, Musical theatre, Fantasy, Musical, Comic science fiction
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Comedy science fiction films, Musical films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Hervé Villechaize, Susan Tyrrell, Matthew Bright, Danny Elfman, Viva, Joe Spinell
Roles Ex-Queen
Rating64% 3.248623.248623.248623.248623.24862
The film begins on "Friday, April 17" at 4 pm in Venice, California. Huckleberry P. Jones (Gene Cunningham), local pimp, narcotics peddler and slumlord, enters a vacant house that he owns. While stashing heroin in the basement, he stumbles upon a mysterious door and enters it, falling into the Sixth Dimension, from which he promptly escapes. After retrieving the heroin, he sells the house to the Hercules family. On their way to school, Frenchy Hercules (Marie-Pascale Elfman) and her brother Flash (Phil Gordon) have a conversation with Squeezit Henderson (Matthew Bright), who tells them that, while being violently beaten by his mother, he had a vision of his transgender sister René (also played by Bright), who had fallen into the Sixth Dimension through the door in the Hercules' basement. Frenchy returns home to confide in her mother, and decides to take just a "little peek" behind the forbidden door in the basement. After arriving in the Sixth Dimension, she is captured by the perpetually topless Princess, who brings Frenchy to the rulers of the Sixth Dimension, the midget King Fausto (Hervé Villechaize) and his queen, Doris (Susan Tyrrell). When the king falls for Frenchy, Queen Doris orders their frog servant, Bust Rod, to lock her up. In order to make sure that Frenchy is not harmed, King Fausto tells Bust Rod to take Frenchy to Cell 63, where the king keeps his favorite concubines (as well as René). The next day at school, Flash tries to convince Squeezit to help him rescue René and Frenchy. When Squeezit refuses, Flash enlists the help of Gramps instead. In the Sixth Dimension, they speak to an old Jewish man who tells them how to help Frenchy escape, but they soon are captured by Bust Rod. Queen Doris interrogates Flash and Gramps and then lowers them into a large septic tank. She then plots her revenge against Frenchy, relocating all the denizens of Cell 63 to a torture chamber. She leaves the Princess to oversee Frenchy's torture and execution, but when a fuse is blown, the torture is put on hold and the prisoners from cell 63 are relocated to keep the King from finding them.
The State of Things, 2h4
Directed by Wim Wenders
Origin German
Genres Drama
Themes Films about films, Transport films, Road movies
Actors Patrick Bauchau, Allen Garfield, Isabelle Weingarten, Samuel Fuller, Robert Kramer, Roger Corman
Roles Kate
Rating68% 3.44473.44473.44473.44473.4447
A film crew in Portugal shoots a black-and-white science fiction film about the survivors on a post-apocalyptic Earth, titled The Survivors. The shooting stops when the production runs out of film stock and money. In an abandoned hotel, the crew waits for money to arrive or a sign from vanished producer Gordon. As they grow restless and bored, the film depicts some of their philosophical thoughts and emotional reactions. Director Friedrich Munro finally sets off to find Gordon in Los Angeles who hides in a mobile home because of money he owes to the Mafia.
Be Pretty and Shut Up!, 1h55
Directed by Delphine Seyrig
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about films, Feminist films, Politique, Films about television, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Political films
Actors Jenny Agutter, Juliet Berto, Ellen Burstyn, Candy Clark, Jill Clayburgh, Patti D'Arbanville
Roles Self
Rating68% 3.418223.418223.418223.418223.41822
Le film consiste en une série d'entretiens entre Delphine Seyrig et vingt-trois actrices françaises, anglaises, américaines et une québécoise qui évoquent leur expérience professionnelle, les rôles qui leur sont proposés et leurs relations avec les réalisateurs et les équipes techniques.
Flash Gordon, 1h48
Directed by Mike Hodges, Brian W. Cook
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Monde imaginaire, Dans l'espace, Sur une planète fictive, Superhero films, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Chaim Topol, Timothy Dalton, Max von Sydow, Ornella Muti
Roles Cytherian Girl
Rating64% 3.247733.247733.247733.247733.24773
Emperor Ming the Merciless declares that he will first play with and then destroy the Earth using natural disasters. On Earth, New York Jets football star "Flash" Gordon boards a small plane, where he meets travel journalist Dale Arden. Mid-flight, the cockpit is hit by a meteorite and the pilots are lost. Flash takes control and manages to crash land into a greenhouse owned by Dr. Hans Zarkov. Zarkov, who believes the disasters are being caused because an unknown source is pushing the Moon towards Earth, has secretly constructed a spacecraft which he plans to use to investigate. Zarkov's assistant refuses to go, so he lures Flash and Dale aboard. The rocket launches, taking them to the planet Mongo, where they are captured by Ming's troops.
The Swap
The Swap (1979)
, 1h23
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Robert De Niro, Jennifer Warren, Terrayne Crawford, Lisa Blount, Sybil Danning, James Brown
Roles Girl with the hourglass (archive footage)
Rating32% 1.617141.617141.617141.617141.61714
The film opens as Sam Nicoletti (Robert de Niro) works in his office where he is a film editor (in the original lovie Sam's Song he is working on a documentary about Nixon but here he is working on a porno film) , little knowing there is an intruder. After talking on the phone, Sam is knocked out from behind by the intruder.
New Old
New Old (1979)
, 1h7
Directed by Pierre Clémenti
Origin France
Genres Drama, Documentary
Actors Viva, Pierre Clémenti
Rating68% 3.432033.432033.432033.432033.43203
À rédiger
Ciao! Manhattan, 1h24
Directed by David Weisman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Documentary
Actors Edie Sedgwick, Isabel Jewell, Paul America, Andy Warhol, Viva, Brigid Berlin
Roles Diana - Vogue editor
Rating56% 2.803882.803882.803882.803882.80388
Le film raconte le destin tragique d'Edie Sedgwick, star déchue de la Factory d'Andy Warhol. De retour chez sa mère en Californie, Susan/Edie s'installe dans la piscine aménagée et décorée de couvertures de journaux où elle apparaît et de photos de mode où elle ressasse ses années de gloire à New York dans le monde du pop art et de la folie régnant à la Factory à la fin des années 1960. Susan/Edie partage ses visions dues à la drogue et à l'alcool avec un jeune hippie paumé, Butch qui a pris Susan en stop lors de son pèlerinage en Californie.
Cisco Pike
Cisco Pike (1972)
, 1h35
Directed by Bill L. Norton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Musical films
Actors Kris Kristofferson, Gene Hackman, Karen Black, Harry Dean Stanton, Viva, Roscoe Lee Browne
Roles Merna
Rating64% 3.242343.242343.242343.242343.24234
The film centers on Cisco Pike (played by Kris Kristofferson), an out of luck and out of work musician, and Sergeant Leo Holland (played by Gene Hackman). Cisco is a former drug dealer who has been busted several times by Sgt. Holland, and one night Holland comes to the door and demands that Cisco move a large amount of marijuana for him or suffer jail. He has several misadventures selling the marijuana, meets up with Doug Sahm at a recording studio, has his friend Jesse Dupree visit (played by Harry Dean Stanton, billed as H.D. Stanton for this film), meets a pregnant rich girl and her friend, and tries to make good with the Sergeant in the time allotted to him.
Play It Again, Sam, 1h25
Directed by Herbert Ross
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Humphrey Bogart, Tony Roberts, Jerry Lacy, Jennifer Salt
Roles Jennifer
Rating75% 3.798553.798553.798553.798553.79855
Set in San Francisco, the film begins with the closing scenes of Casablanca, with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. We then see that the main character, Allan Felix (Woody Allen), is watching the film in a cinema, mouth agape. He leaves the cinema regretting that he will never be like Rick.