Brigid Berlin was born on September 6, 1939 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story (2000), Chelsea Girls (1966) and Serial Mom (1994).
Mother was a New York society girl. She smoked. She didn't read books. She went to every fashion show because Daddy ran the show at Hearst. He got the company out of debt; he sold off newspapers to buy television stations. When Patty Hearst was kidnapped, he held the purse strings, and he was reluctant to give up the ransom money to get her back.
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My mother wanted me to be a slim respectable socialite... Instead I became an overweight troublemaker.
She became a permanent employee at the Factory in 1975, working at the front desk and transcribing interviews.
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She is the subject of the documentary, Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story (2000) - so named because of her obsession with key lime pie and food in general.
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Her mother, Honey Berlin, was constantly trying to get her to lose weight as a child, giving her cash for every pound she lost and pharmaceutical "speed" to help her lose it. Brigid was sent to the family doctor at the age of eleven to get amphetamines and Dexedrine (little orange hearts), while her mother took Preludin.
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Completed her education at the Convent of the Sacred Heart Eden Hall in Pennsylvania, a Catholic school where her father had sent her, saying "At least you're not going to get Communism from the nuns!"
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She was one of the few superstars who remained a regular friend of Andy Warhol until his death.
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"Brigid Polk" was a pseudonym used by Brigid Berlin in the 1960s in some of Andy Warhol's films and on some of her artwork. She reportedly called herself that because she used to "poke" herself so often -- that is, she used to regularly inject amphetamines with a syringe, as she famously did through her jeans in Chelsea Girls (1966).
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Feature
2008
Pecker
1998
Super Market Rich Lady
Serial Mom
1994
Mean Lady
The Critical Years
1987
Short
Mother
Bad
1977
Estelle (as Brigid Polk)
Ciao Manhattan
1972
Brigid (as Brigid Polk)
Women in Revolt
1971
Bar Owner (uncredited)
School Play
1970
Minima (as Brigid Polk)
The Loves of Ondine
1968
Wife to Ondine (as Brigid Polk)
****
1967
Ondine's Wife (as Brigid Polk)
The Nude Restaurant
1967
Girl in tub (as Brigid Polk)
Imitation of Christ
1967
Mother (as Brigit Polk)
Bike Boy
1967
Woman with husband (as Brigid Polk)
Tub Girls
1967
as Brigid Polk
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Factory Girl
2006
associate producer
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Andy Warhol's Factory People
2008
TV Series documentary
A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory
$1 Million