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Viva (born Janet Susan Mary Hoffman on August 23, 1938 in Thousand Islands, New York) is an actress, writer and a former Warhol superstar.

She was given the name Viva by Andy Warhol before the release of her first film with him but later used her married last name "Viva Auder". She appeared in several of Andy Warhol's movies and was a frequent guest at The Factory. After Viva began making movies for other directors she also began writing. Her first book, Superstar, was an insiders look at the Factory scene, a partly fictional autobiographical account of her time there.

It was distinguished from other "tell-all" memoirs by virtue of Viva's writing, which incorporated various stylistic effects, including the use of taped conversations, arguably one of the first times such a technique had been used in a novel. She also wrote for various publications, including The Village Voice.

With her husband Michel Auder, she was one of the early pioneers in video art. The couple made and kept video diaries which included the birth of her first daughter, Alexandra Auder. She had another child later, out-of-wedlock, the actress Gaby Hoffmann.

Viva incorporated the tapes into her second book, The Baby. These tapes were later released by Michel Auder as Chronicles: Family Diary in three parts.

She is the also the author of the autobiographical novel Superstar (1970), and is at work on her memoirs. She lives in Malibu, California, where she paints landscapes.

Filmography

Bike Boy, Andy Warhol, (1967)
Nude Restaurant, Andy Warhol (1967)
The Loves Of Ondine, Andy Warhol (1968)
Lonesome Cowboys, Andy Warhol (1968)
Blue Movie
, Andy Warhol, (1969)
Midnight Cowboy
John Schlesinger, (1969)
Lions Love, Agnes Varda (1969)
Trapianto, consunzione e morte di Franco Brocani Mario Schifano, (1969)
Necropolis, Franco Brocani, (1970)
Cleopatra
, Michel Auder, (1970)
Play It Again, Sam
, Woody Allen
, (1972)
Cisco Pike (1972)
Flash Gordon
(1980)
Forbidden Zone
(1980)
The State Of Things (Der Stand der Dinge), Wim Wenders, (1982)
Paris, Texas
, Wim Wenders (1984)
The Man Without A Face, Mel Gibson
, (1993)

Books

Superstar (1970)
The Baby (1974)

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