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Marisa Silver Biography (1960-)

Born April 23, 1960, in Shaker Heights, OH; daughter of Raphael (a film producer) and Joan Micklin (a director) Silver; married Ken Kwapis (a director).

Silver's first film, Old Enough (produced by her sister, Dina) was made on abudget of just $400,000.

Nationality

American

Gender

Female

Birth Details

April 23, 1960

Shaker Heights, Ohio, United States

Famous Works

• Credits; FILM WORK; DIRECTOR
• Old Enough (also see below), Orion Classics, 1984.
• Permanent Record, Paramount, 1988.
• Vital Signs, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1990.
• (With husband, Ken Kwapis), He Said, She Said, Paramount, 1991.
• Also directed short Dexter T. and edited documentary Light Coming Through: A Portrait of Maud Morgan while at Harvard University.
• Credits; TELEVISION WORK; EPISODIC
• Codirector, "A Community of Praise," Middletown, PBS, 1992.
• Writings
• Old Enough (screenplay), Orion Classics, 1984.

Further Reference

PERIODICALS

• American Film, March, 1991, p. 56.
• Hollywood Reporter, March 11, 1991.
• Interview, March, 1991, p. 44.
• People Weekly, December 10, 1984, p. 163.
• Working Woman, August, 1984, p. 136.