Viva

Biography

Viva, born Janet Susan Mary Hoffmann, is an American actress, writer and a former Warhol superstar.

Career Overview

Viva has 57 screen credits in a career dating back to 1962. Signature works include Lions Love, Blue Movie, 1967. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For

Acting

Gender

female

Known Credits

57

Birth Date

1938-08-23 00:00:00

Birth Place

Syracuse, New York, USA

Known For

• 

  Lions Love
• 

  Blue Movie
• 

  1967
• Confession
• 

  Cleopatra
• 

  Keeping Busy

Frequent Collaborators

• Andy Warhol (5 collaborations)
• Agnès Varda (4 collaborations)
• Michel Auder (4 collaborations)
• Louis Waldon (3 collaborations)
• Max L. Raab (2 collaborations)
• Andy Babbish (1 collaborations)
• Stevan Larner (1 collaborations)
• Lee Alexander (1 collaborations)
• Jack Wright III (1 collaborations)
• William A. Weaver (1 collaborations)

Credits

• actors (57 credits)

  • I Shot Andy Warhol: SCUM Manifesto

    actor

    actors
    2024
  • 1967

    actor

    actors
    2015
  • Memória da memória

    actor

    actors
    2013
  • News from Nowhere

    actor

    actors
    2010
  • Confession

    actor

    actors
    2009
  • The Beaches of Agnès

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2008
  • La deuxième femme

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2008
  • The Feature

    actor

    actors
    2008
  • Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory

    actor

    actors
    2008
  • 1/20/01

    actor

    actors
    2001
  • Birth of a Nation

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1997
  • Nico Icon

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1995
  • The Man Without a Face

    Mrs. Cooper

    actor

    actors
    1993
  • Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1990
  • Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    1989
  • Andy Warhol

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1987
  • Ornette: Made in America

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1986
  • Paris, Texas

    Woman on TV

    actor

    actors
    1984
  • Chasing the Dragon

    actor

    actors
    1982
  • The State of Things

    Kate

    actor

    actors
    1982
  • Forbidden Zone

    Ex-Queen

    actor

    actors
    1982
  • Be Pretty and Shut Up!

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1981
  • Chelsea Hotel

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1981
  • Flash Gordon

    Cytherian Girl

    actor

    actors
    1980
  • The Beats: An Existential Comedy

    actor

    actors
    1980
  • New Old

    actor

    actors
    1979
  • The Swap

    Girl with the hourglass (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    1979
  • Jesus

    actor

    actors
    1979
  • Chelsea Girls with Andy Warhol

    actor

    actors
    1976
  • Ciao! Manhattan

    Diana - Vogue editor

    actor

    actors
    1973
  • Play It Again, Sam

    Jennifer

    actor

    actors
    1972
  • Cisco Pike

    Merna

    actor

    actors
    1972
  • Andy Warhol

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1972
  • Chronicles: Morocco

    actor

    actors
    1972
  • Necropolis

    Countess Bathory

    actor

    actors
    1970
  • Langlois

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1970
  • Cleopatra

    Cleopatra

    actor

    actors
    1970
  • The Stone Age

    actor

    actors
    1970
  • Viva Varda!

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1970
  • Keeping Busy

    actor

    actors
    1969
  • Lions Love

    Viva

    actor

    actors
    1969
  • Blue Movie

    Herself

    actor

    actors
    1969
  • Sam's Song

    Girl with the Hourglass

    actor

    actors
    1969
  • Midnight Cowboy

    Gretel McAlbertson

    actor

    actors
    1969
  • Transplantation, Consumption and Death of Franco Brocani

    actor

    actors
    1969
  • Positano

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1969
  • Lonesome Cowboys

    Ramona D'Alvarez

    actor

    actors
    1968
  • San Diego Surf

    Susan Hoffman

    actor

    actors
    1968
  • The Loves of Ondine

    Girl in Bed

    actor

    actors
    1968
  • The New Cinema

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1968
  • Home Movies: NYC to San Diego

    actor

    actors
    1968
  • The Dick Cavett Show

    - Hugh O'Brian, Viva, Professor Paul Weiss, Professor Telford Taylor, Robert Bowie Johnson (1971) ... Self - Guest actor actors

    - Jason Robards, David Susskind, Viva, Modern Jazz Quartet, Sidney Sheldon (1970) ... Self - Guest actor actors
    1968
  • Four Stars

    Girl in Bed

    actor

    actors
    1967
  • The Nude Restaurant

    The Waitress

    actor

    actors
    1967
  • Bike Boy

    Girl on couch

    actor

    actors
    1967
  • Tub Girls

    actor

    actors
    1967
  • The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    - Episode 219 (1968) ... Self actor actors
    1962