Vivian Vanessa Kubrick (born August 5, 1960), also credited under the pseudonym Abigail Mead, is an American-British filmmaker and composer. She is the daughter of filmmaker
Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick (; July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and photographer. Widely considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, his films, almost all of which are adaptations of nove ...
.
Early life
Vivian Vanessa Kubrick was born on August 5, 1960 to filmmaker
Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick (; July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and photographer. Widely considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, his films, almost all of which are adaptations of nove ...
and actress
Christiane Kubrick
Christiane Susanne Kubrick (née Harlan; born 10 May 1932) is a German actress. She was born into a theatrical family (her uncle was the film director Veit Harlan), and was the wife of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick from 1958 until his death in 1999 ...
(née Harlan). She had an elder sister, Anya, born April 6, 1959, and an elder half-sister, Katharina, from her mother's first marriage. Her father's family is
Jewish
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.
Career
Kubrick made appearances in four of her father's films: as Dr. Floyd's daughter, nicknamed "Squirt", in ''
2001: A Space Odyssey'' (1968), as a guest at Bryan's birthday party in ''
Barry Lyndon
''Barry Lyndon'' is a 1975 period drama film written, directed, and produced by Stanley Kubrick, based on the 1844 novel ''The Luck of Barry Lyndon'' by William Makepeace Thackeray. Starring Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Leonard ...
'' (1975), as a guest on a ballroom couch in ''
The Shining'' (1980), and as a news camera operator at the site of a mass grave depicted in ''
Full Metal Jacket
''Full Metal Jacket'' is a 1987 war drama film directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Michael Herr and Gustav Hasford. The film is based on Hasford's 1979 novel ''The Short-Timers'' and stars Matthew M ...
'' (1987).
At age 17, Kubrick directed and filmed a 35-minute documentary for the
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, ''The Making of The Shining'', which was edited by Gordon Stainforth and had some footage removed by Stanley Kubrick.
After the release of the documentary in 1980, it became popular on the Kubrick fan site alt.movies.kubrick (amk) and distributed on
DVD
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s of ''The Shining''. In 2019, Alice Vincent wrote in ''
The Telegraph
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Australia
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'' that the film confirmed "her father deliberately mistreated
Duvall, belittling her ideas and shutting her down while treating her co-star,
Jack Nicholson
John Joseph Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is an American retired actor and filmmaker. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest actors of all time. In many of his films, he played rebels against the social structure. He received numerous ...
, as an equal."
According to Elizabeth Jean Hornbeck, writing in ''
Feminist Studies
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'' in 2016, "Kubrick bullied Duvall into a near emotional breakdown, which took a toll on her health", some of which is documented in the film.
According to Geoffrey Macnab, writing in ''
The Independent
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'' in 2020, in the film, "Depending on your point of view, he is either bullying her or using sly, intimidatory tactics to goad the performance he wants out of her."
In 2022, the 1981
Razzies
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award for "Worst Actress" given to
Shelley Duvall
Shelley Alexis Duvall (born July 7, 1949) is an American actress and producer who is known for her portrayals of distinct, often eccentric characters. She is the recipient of several accolades, including a Cannes Film Festival Award and a Peab ...
for ''The Shining'' was rescinded based in part on footage from the documentary that depicts how her father treated Duvall on set.
She supervised and composed the score to ''Full Metal Jacket'', using the pseudonym Abigail Mead. In 1986, she shot footage for a documentary on the making of the film, but it was not completed. Some of the footage was included in ''
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures''.
In October 2008, Kubrick attended a 40th anniversary screening of ''2001: A Space Odyssey'' sponsored by the Jules Verne Society, along with actors
Keir Dullea
Keir Atwood Dullea (; born May 30, 1936) is an American actor. He played astronaut David Bowman in the 1968 film '' 2001: A Space Odyssey'' and its 1984 sequel, '' 2010: The Year We Make Contact''. His other film roles include '' David and Lisa ...
,
Daniel Richter, and
Malcolm McDowell
Malcolm McDowell (born Malcolm John Taylor; 13 June 1943) is a British actor, producer, and television presenter. He is best known for portraying Alex DeLarge in ''A Clockwork Orange.'' He was born in the Horsforth suburb of Leeds and raised in ...
. She accepted the Society's Legendaire Award on behalf of her father.
In 2016, Kubrick published an open letter denying the conspiracy theory that suggests her father helped fake the
Apollo 11
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moon landing, referring to the allegation as a "grotesque lie." In 2016, she also published an open letter to
Phil McGraw
Phillip Calvin McGraw (born September 1, 1950), better known as Dr. Phil, is an American television personality and author best known for hosting the talk show '' Dr. Phil''. He holds a doctorate in clinical psychology, though he ceased rene ...
(also known as
Dr. Phil
Phillip Calvin McGraw (born September 1, 1950), better known as Dr. Phil, is an American television personality and author best known for hosting the talk show '' Dr. Phil''. He holds a doctorate in clinical psychology, though he ceased rene ...
), after his 2016 interview with Shelley Duvall, stating "Your exploitive use of Shelly Duvall is a form of LURID ENTERTAINMENT and is shameful". She started a crowdfunding campaign for Duvall.
Filmography
References
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1960 births
Living people
American people of Austrian-Jewish descent
American people of German descent
American people of Romanian-Jewish descent
American people of Polish-Jewish descent
American child actresses
Women film score composers
Jewish American actresses
20th-century American actresses
Actresses from Los Angeles
Stanley Kubrick
American film directors
20th-century American musicians