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Andrea Feldman 
9.-Jul-2010 01:29 pm


Andrea Feldman (April 1, 1948 – August 8, 1972) was an American actress and a Warhol superstar. A native New Yorker, she starred in several of Warhol’s underground movies, such as Trash, before committing suicide in 1972.

Feldman 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" in which she performed a sexual act with a coke bottle, and for her heavy dependence on drugs, particularly amphetamines.

Feldman had a small but memorable role in Andy Warhol's Trash (1970), as a spaced-out rich girl with an LSD obsession. She was also featured in a 1970 documentary called Groupies, where she referred to herself by a nickname given to her by the Warhol crowd: Andrea "Whips" Feldman. She also often referred to herself as "Andrea Warhol".

In August 1972, Feldman 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 Coca-Cola in one hand and a rosary in the other when she jumped from the fourteenth floor of 51 Fifth Avenue and 12th Street.

Feldman’s suicide preceded the release of Andy Warhol's Heat, in which she had a significant role much larger than in the previous Warhol film, by only three weeks. Feldman's performance garnered positive reviews. Judith Christ, a critic for New York magazine wrote:

"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."
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