Marisa Silver

Marisa Silver

Known for

Directing

Born

April 23, 1960 (age 66)

Birthplace

Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA

Biography

Marisa Silver (born April 23, 1960) is an American author, screenwriter and film director, as well as the daughter of director Joan Micklin Silver. Marisa Silver directed her first film, Old Enough, while she studied at Harvard University. The film won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 1984, when Silver was 23. Silver went on to direct three more feature films, Permanent Record (1988), with Keanu Reeves, Vital Signs (1990) with Diane Lane and Jimmy Smits, and He Said, She Said (1991), with Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth Perkins. The latter was co-directed with her husband-to-be, Ken Kwapis.

After making her career in Hollywood, she switched her profession and entered graduate school to become...

Best known work

He Said, She Said
He Said, She Said
1991
L.A. Law
L.A. Law
1986
Permanent Record
Permanent Record
1988
Vital Signs
Vital Signs
1990
Old Enough
Old Enough
1984
Indecency
Indecency
1992
Middletown
Middletown
1982

Filmography

  1. 1992

    Indecency

    Director

  2. 1991

  3. 1990

    Vital Signs

    Director

  4. 1988

  5. 1986

    L.A. LawTV

    Director

  6. 1984

    Old Enough

    Director, Writer

  7. 1982

    MiddletownTV

    Director

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