Marisa Silver

Marisa Silver

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 a short story writer. Her first short story appeared in The New Yorker magazine in 2000 and subsequently several more stories have been published there. Silver published the short-story collection, Babe in Paradise, in 2001. That collection was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and was a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. A story from the collection was included in The Best American Short Stories 2000. In 2005, W. W. Norton & Company published her novel, No Direction Home. Her novel The God of War was published in April 2008 by Simon & Schuster. Her second short-story collection, Alone with You, was published in 2010, and her third novel, Mary Coin, in 2013. She was a visiting Senior Lecturer at the Otis College Graduate Writing Program in 2017 and also on the fiction faculty at Warren Wilson College. She was awarded the 2017 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for Fiction. Her most recent work, a novel titled Little Nothing, was released September 13, 2016.

  • Title: Marisa Silver
  • Popularity: 1.296
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1960-04-23
  • Place of Birth: Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA
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Marisa Silver Movies

  • 1990
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    Vital Signs

    Vital Signs

    4.9 1990 HD

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  • 1991
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    He Said, She Said

    He Said, She Said

    5.9 1991 HD

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  • 1988
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    Permanent Record

    Permanent Record

    6.4 1988 HD

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  • 1984
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    Old Enough

    Old Enough

    6.4 1984 HD

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  • 1992
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    Indecency

    Indecency

    4 1992 HD

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  • 1984
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    Old Enough

    Old Enough

    6.4 1984 HD

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  • 1970
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    7 1970 HD

    L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven...

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  • 1970
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    1 1970 HD

    Six-part documentary on the city of Muncie, Indiana - nicknamed "Middletown" after a study in the 1920s deemed it representative of middle America....

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