Other names Abigail Mead Movies Making 'The Shining' Role Filmmaker | Name Vivian Kubrick Occupation Filmmaker, composer | |
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Parents Christiane Kubrick, Stanley Kubrick Siblings Katharina Kubrick, Anya Kubrick Similar People Stanley Kubrick, Katharina Kubrick, Christiane Kubrick, Gustav Hasford, Michael Herr | ||
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Vivian Vanessa Kubrick (born 5 August 1960) is an American-born English filmmaker and composer, known for her work with her father, filmmaker Stanley Kubrick.
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- Filmmaker Vivian Kubrick on Julian Assange
- Making the shining a film by vivian kubrick 1980 1999 arena bbc
- Early life
- Career
- Personal life
- Filmography
- References
Making the shining a film by vivian kubrick 1980 1999 arena bbc
Early life
Kubrick was born in Los Angeles, California to Stanley and her mother Christiane Kubrick. She had an older sister, Anya, from whom she was said to be "inseparable" in childhood. She also has an older half-sister, Katharina, from her mother's first marriage.
Career
She played small roles in four of her father's films, firstly as a small child, nicknamed "Squirt", in 2001: A Space Odyssey during a sequence involving a videophone conversation with her on-screen father, Heywood Floyd (William Sylvester).
In her late teens, Kubrick directed a half-hour documentary for the BBC, The Making of "The Shining", which is included on all DVDs and many videotapes of her father's film The Shining. She shot 18 hours of footage for a similar documentary on the making of Full Metal Jacket but it remained unfinished. She did write the score to Full Metal Jacket using the pseudonym Abigail Mead. Director Kubrick had initially envisioned a score that featured Japanese drum compositions, but after hearing an original piece his daughter had recorded, he asked her to score the entire film.
Her father solicited work from her to write music for Eyes Wide Shut, but it was not completed, as Kubrick left for California instead. Although Stanley Kubrick wrote her a 40-page letter in an attempt to persuade her to return to the project she chose not to do so. The film instead used music by Jocelyn Pook.
In October 2008, Kubrick appeared at a 40th anniversary screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey sponsored by the Jules Verne Society, where she appeared onstage with actor Keir Dullea, star of the film, Daniel Richter who played the chief ape in the film, and Malcolm McDowell who starred in her father's subsequent film, A Clockwork Orange (1971). She accepted the Society's Legendaire Award on behalf of her father.
Personal life
In August 2010, her family disclosed that she had been a member of the Church of Scientology since 1999, leading to her estrangement from them. Concerns were raised by her family due to her absence at the funeral of her sister, Anya Kubrick, in 2009, and her failure to visit her sister during her battle with cancer prior to her passing.
In 2014 she posted a series of photographs of herself and her father to Twitter.
Like her father, Kubrick is an animal-lover and has rescued several stray dogs.