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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1962-02-09

Place of Birth

New York, New York, USA

Zoë Lund

Biography

Zoë Lund was an American musician, model, actress, author, producer, political activist and screenwriter. She was best known for her association in two films with film director Abel Ferrara: Ms. 45 (1981), in which she starred, and Bad Lieutenant (1992), for which she co-wrote the screenplay.

Known for

Miami Vice

Miami Vice

The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on the unlikely partnership of Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs - who first meet when Tubbs is undercover in a drug cartel.

Ms .45

Ms .45

After being attacked and raped twice in one day, a timid, mute seamstress becomes a violent agent of revenge for wronged women.

Bad Lieutenant

Bad Lieutenant

While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness.

Hothouse

Hothouse

A medical drama set in a New England psychiatric clinic includes father-and-son discord between the head of the facility and its business manager.

Dreamland

Dreamland

Small-town gangsters and ambitious young girls meet in "Dreamland", where they exchange nervous kisses and green banknotes.

Times Square

Times Square

When a 13-year-old girl befriends a defiant antisocial child of the streets, the mismatched runaways set off to the Big Apple to find their own adventure.

Special Effects

Special Effects

Reality and illusion collide as megalomaniacal filmmaker Chris Neville murders a young would-be actress, then sets about making a feature about the deed, casting the deceased's clueless husband as the patsy, and finding a dead ringer to play the late actress.

The Self-Destruction of Gia

The Self-Destruction of Gia

Filmmaker JJ Martin explores Gia Carangi's life through rare home movies and photos, previously unseen interviews with Gia, and contemporary interviews with family, friends, and associates.

365 Day Project

365 Day Project

This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007 and for an entire year, as indicated in the title, a large public (the artist's friends, as well as unknowns) were invited to view a diary of short films of various lengths (from one to twenty minutes) on the Internet. A movie was posted each day, adding to the previously posted pieces, resulting altogether in nearly thirty-eight hours of moving images.

Dead Wife Cult

Dead Wife Cult

The life of cult icon Zoë Lund, through the eyes of her widower and an avid fan.

Exquisite Corpses

Exquisite Corpses

An attractive young cowboy, new to the city, meets a gay casting agent.

Heavy Petting

Heavy Petting

Celebrities and creatives -- including musician David Byrne, performance artist Spalding Gray, comedian Sandra Bernhard, radical activist Abbie Hoffman, and poet Allen Ginsberg-- recall their earliest sexual experiences.

Zoe XO

Zoe XO

A haunting love story from Robert Lund, Zoe's husband.

Zoe Rising

Zoe Rising

A poetic abstract look back at the early childhood life of the late screenwriter and actress Zoe Tamerlis Lund, (Ms.45, The Bad Lieutenant), through the memories of her surviving mother, sculptor Barbara Lekberg.

Bitch-Beauty

Bitch-Beauty

Bitch-Beauty is an experimental documentary paralleling the lives of Anne Hanavan, whose experiences as part of the underground scene in the East Village of the 1980s was contemporary with now-deceased actress Zoe Tamerlis Lund, the actor and screenwriter of Bad Lieutenant, who died of a heroin/cocaine overdose in 1999. Using Hanavan's films, performances, readings, and music as well as footage from Lund's work, Bitch-Beauty is an intense seven-minute time capsule of addiction, the perils of street prostitution, and subsequent renewal or revival through cathartic self-expression.