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![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: 1941 in Syracuse, NY Biography:"Viva", also known as "Viva Superstar" and originally known on her birth certificate as Janet Susan Mary Hoffman, was one of the more famous members of the "Andy Warhol" entourage. A talented painter and novelist, Viva was less accomplished as an actress, though her screen appearances had the saving grace of humor. In recounting her explicit sex scene in Warhol's F**k (aka "Blue Movie", 1968), one recalls not the penetration but the foreplay, wherein Viva blithely chatters away on a variety of social and political topics. Her most famous "mainstream" appearances include her semi-autobiographical turn as Greenwich Village reveller Gretchen McAlbertson in "Midnight Cowboy" (1969), and her portrayal of Jennifer, "Woody Allen"'s nymphomaniac blind date (who, after prattling on about sexual liberation, reacts to "Woody Allen"'s advances by screaming ""What" kind of a girl do you take me for???") in "Play... Full Biography
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