Six Daughters Who've Acted For Their Director Fathers.
Mother of Tears
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Vivian Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968): Stanley Kubrick worked with his wife Christiane on the set of his film Paths of Glory. A decade later their spawn made a memorably jarring appearance in his signature space opera, unleashing the kind of unphotogenically ADD-addled, genuine kid turn only a truly loving father would let into the final cut. (Vivian would later direct a loving making-of doc on The Shining, which caught the director cussing out Shelley Duvall.)
Katrine Boorman, Excalibur (1981): In the opening sequences of John Boorman's exquisitely odd King Arthur epic, a princess is tricked into a topless love scene by Gabriel Byrne's Uther Pendragon. Perhaps it's best not to know this, but said actress is in fact the director's daughter. All together now: Ew!
Anjelica Huston, Prizzi's Honor (1985): In the autumn of his career, John Huston gave his budding actress daughter--fresh off Ice Pirates, no less--a huge break, throwing Jack Nicholson her way and letting her work her way into a Best Supporting Actress Oscar. Thanks, Dad!
Sofia Coppola, The Godfather: Part III (1990): And then there's poor Sofia Coppola. After her gawky turn in this would-be Coppola comeback, it took a full decade for the future director to shake off being synonymous with everything that's wrong with nepotism.
Isabella Rossellini, My Dad Is 100 Years Old (2005): Okay, so Italian neorealist pioneer Roberto Rossellini had been dead nearly 30 years when his daughter made this lovingly nutty ode to him. But it still, in its way, counts, with Canadian retro-stylist Guy Maddin directing the actress/model as she essentially tries to do what she never could: act for her father.
Asia Argento, Mother of Tears (2007): Like Katrine Boorman, the great, insane Asia doesn't mind doffing her top for Daddy, Italian horror master Dario Argento. If only that was the sole father-daughter atrocity. In addition to a wading-through-filth climax, there's also headlining her father's arguably nuttiest film to date. Nepotism, after all, goes both ways.
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1. Popebaldhead said... on Jun 5, 2008 at 08:43AM
“Forgot Patricia Hitchcock, dumb face. Strangers on a Train. Farley Granger. Uh: duh? Ringing a bell? Striking a cord? Boning your Jones?”