---
name: "Vivian Kubrick"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/vivian-kubrick"
fi1m_id: "vivian-kubrick"
imdb_id: "nm0473588"
tmdb_id: 8645
wikidata_id: "Q276175"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "5 August 1960"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:17:02.912249+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Vivian Kubrick

## Identity

Vivian Kubrick

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/vivian-kubrick
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** vivian-kubrick
- **IMDb ID:** nm0473588
- **TMDB ID:** 8645
- **Wikidata ID:** Q276175
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_Kubrick, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q276175, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0473588/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8645

Composer. Born 5 August 1960 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 5 August 1960, Los Angeles, California, USA
- **Also known as:** Vivian Vanessa Kubrick , Abigail Mead
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 4: 1 crew, 3 other
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1960s 92 (1), 1970s 85 (1), 1980s 84 (2)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_Kubrick, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q276175, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0473588/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8645

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Full Metal Jacket*](https://film.one/film/full-metal-jacket.md) (81)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Vivian Vanessa Kubrick, also credited as Abigail Mead, is an American film composer, director and actress. She is the daughter of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick and his wife Christiane.

Kubrick directed the documentary *Making 'The Shining'* (1980) for the BBC. She composed the score for *Full Metal Jacket* (1987) under the pseudonym Abigail Mead and appears uncredited in that film as a news camera operator at a mass grave, as well as in uncredited roles in *2001: A Space Odyssey* (1968), *Barry Lyndon* (1975) and *The Shining* (1980).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

### Crew (1) — the average rests on these

- *Full Metal Jacket* (1987), Fi1m 81, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/full-metal-jacket.md)

### Also credited (3) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *The Shining* (1980), Fi1m 88, as Smoking Guest on Ballroom Couch (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/the-shining.md)
- *Barry Lyndon* (1975), Fi1m 85, as Magic Show Spectator (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/barry-lyndon.md)
- *2001: A Space Odyssey* (1968), Fi1m 92, as Floyd's Daughter (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/2001-a-space-odyssey.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Behind the Scenes of Full Metal Jacket* (2005), Director
- *First Kill* (2001), Music
- *The Mao Game* (1999), Music
- *Full Metal Jacket* (1987), as News Camera Operator at Mass Grave (uncredited) · Original Music Composer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/full-metal-jacket.md)
- *Making 'The Shining'* (1980), Director, Editor
- *The Shining* (1980), as Smoking Guest on Ballroom Couch (uncredited) — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/the-shining.md)
- *Barry Lyndon* (1975), as Magic Show Spectator (uncredited) — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/barry-lyndon.md)
- *2001: A Space Odyssey* (1968), as Floyd's Daughter (uncredited) — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/2001-a-space-odyssey.md)
- *Shooting 'Full Metal Jacket'*, Director

## Gallery

- ![Vivian Kubrick, an American film composer and director, interviewed by Kiwi journalist Suzi 3D in 2018](https://film.one/media/person/103359/gallery-40a5364d407a.jpg) Vivian Kubrick, an American film composer and director, interviewed by Kiwi journalist Suzi 3D in 2018 — Suzi 3D, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Vivian_Kubrick.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Vivian Kubrick](https://film.one/media/person/103359/gallery-da8ad19912d8.jpg) Vivian Kubrick — suzy3d, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/Vivian_Kubrick1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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