Vivian Schilling
Actor
Biography
Vivian Schilling is an accomplished novelist, screenwriter, actor and filmmaker. Born and raised in Kansas, she attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in Los Angeles and also studied under the legendary Stella Adler before embarking upon a multifaceted career. Working both in front and behind the camera, she began writing and starring in her own films at the age of 23.
With her first feature, the low-budget cult-classic Soultaker (1990), she became known for her original ideas and deft hand with complex supernatural subjects.In spite of its limited budget, the film earned Schilling the Saturn Award in 1992 alongside that year's The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991).
Filmography
Star Slammer
as Marni 1986
Future Shock
as Jenny Porter 1994
Inside Monkey Zetterland
as Network Producer (uncredited) 1992
Terror Eyes
as Eva Adams / Starla Floyd 1989
Eyes of the Beholder
as Officer Anderson 1992
Puss in Boots
as Princess (voice) 1999
Beach Fever
as Sunbathing Girl 1989
The Legend of Wolf Mountain
as Kathy Haynes 1992
Pucker Up and Bark Like a Dog
as Supermodel Mistress 1989
Ambrose Bierce: Civil War Stories
as Gertrude Atherton 2006
Project Eliminator
as Terry Anderson 1991
Invasion of the Scream Queens
as Herself 1992
Germans
as Ruth Sonnenbruch 1997
Savage Land
as Clara 1994