Vivian Schilling
Acting
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).
As actor 16
Inside Monkey Zetterland
1992
Star Slammer
1986
Pucker Up and Bark Like a Dog
1989
Germans
1997
Future Shock
1994
Invasion of the Scream Queens
1992
The Legend of Wolf Mountain
1992
Eyes of the Beholder
1992
Puss in Boots
1999
Ambrose Bierce: Civil War Stories
2006
Project Eliminator
1991
Savage Land
1994
Soultaker
1990
Beach Fever
1989
Terror Eyes
1989
European Night
1993