Kava, Caroline

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Kava, Caroline
Date of birth
1949-09-25
Field of activity
Acting
Motion picture authorship
Motion pictures--Production and direction
Occupation
Producers and directors
Actresses
Motion picture producers and directors
Screenwriters
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 301101145
Wikidata: Q2221076
Library of congress: no2002112576
HAI10: 000157825
Sources of Information
  • IMDb, December 12, 2018:(Caroline Kava, actress, director, writer ; b. September 25, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois, USA)
  • Born on the Fourth of July [VR] 2000, c1989:opening credits, cast (Caroline Kava)
  • Internet movie database, Apr. 19, 2002:(Caroline Kava; actress, 1970s-2000s)

Wikipedia description:

Caroline Kava (born September 25, 1949) is an American actress and playwright of the 1986 Off-Broadway play, The Early Girl. She portrayed a prostitute in the 1980 film Heaven's Gate. In Year of the Dragon (1985), she portrayed the wife of Mickey Rourke's character. In Little Nikita (1988), she portrayed the mother of the title character played by River Phoenix. She also played the mother of Ron Kovic, portrayed by Tom Cruise, in Born on the Fourth of July (1989). She has also appeared in television films such as Act of Vengeance (1986) and Guilty Until Proven Innocent (1991). Kava also appeared with Alan Arkin in Four Days in September (1997). In 1976, Kava appeared as Polly in Threepenny Opera for Joe Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center. In 2009, Kava adapted Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler for the Mauckingbird Theatre Company in Philadelphia.

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