Andrea Feldman Biography

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Andrea Feldman (also known as Andrea â??Whipsâ?? Feldman) (April 1, 1948 – August 8, 1972) was an actress and Warhol superstar. A native New Yorker, she starred in several of Warholâ??s underground movies, such as Trash, before committing suicide in 1972. Andrea was a regular in the backroom of Max's Kansas City where she was noted for her exhibitionist nature, pioneering a performance she called "Showtime", and heavy dependence on drugs, particularly amphetamines.

In August of 1972, Andrea summoned several ex-boyfriends, including poet Jim Carroll, to the New York City apartment of her parents so that they would be witness to her "final starring role", her suicide. Feldman was holding a can of Coke in one hand and a rosary in the other when she jumped from the fourteenth floor of 51 Fifth Avenue and 12th Street.

Feldmanâ??s suicide preceded the release of Heat, in which she had a significant role, by only three weeks.

Filmography

• Four Stars (1967) aka 24 Hour Movie
  

• Trash (1970)
  

• Heat (1972)
  

Reviews

"The most striking performance - in large part non-performance - comes from the late Andrea Feldman as the flat-voiced, freaked-out daughter, a mass of psychotic confusion, infantile and heart-breaking."
(New York Magazine)

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