Zoe Lund
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Zoë Tamerlis Lund in 1993
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Zoë Tamerlis February 9, 1962 New York City, New York, United States |
| Died | April 16, 1999 (aged 37) Paris, France |
| Cause of death | Heart failure due to cocaine use |
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| Years active | 1979–1999 |
| Spouse(s) | Robert Lund (1986 – April 16, 1999) |
| Website | zoelund |
Zoë Tamerlis Lund (February 9, 1962 – April 16, 1999), also known as Zoë Tamerlis and Zoë Tamerlaine, was an American musician, model, actress, author, producer, political activist and screenwriter. She was best known for her association in two films with film director Abel Ferrara: Ms. 45 (1981), in which she starred, and Bad Lieutenant (1992), for which she co-wrote the screenplay.
Lund was born Zoë Tamerlis on February 9, 1962 to mother Barbara Lekberg, a Swedish sculptor, and a father of Greek descent. She dropped out of college.
At a young age, Lund was an accomplished composer/musician; but the power of celluloid took a firmer grasp. "I could write a concerto with 17 violins that could be very powerful, but film works on a more visceral level where I can go into the collective audience and make sure my point gets across." Lund was also a pianist.
Lund made her debut in Abel Ferrara's Ms. 45 (1981). She was only 17 years old during the making of the film.
Lund said in an interview that she had a lot of input manifesting the character: "In the beginning stages of the film, the only material that existed was vague descriptions of several scenes. Being that my face is on camera, without dialogue, for something like 98% of the time, I was involved very much. As to the film being pro-woman, I go beyond that by saying that the film is as much pro-woman as it is pro-garment worker, whatever."
"In any case, Miss Tamerlis's exoticism is of the fashion-magazine kind, as opposed to the real kind," Janet Maslin wrote in her review of the film. "So she isn't very frightening, and neither is much of what she does."
Although it was not an immediate success, Ms. 45 eventually became a cult film in later years.
Not wanting to become part of what she called "Abel's stable" she marked her own career path.
Three years after Ms. 45 was released in 1981, Lund got her second chance to star in a movie, this time in a role that required her to play two different roles. Special Effects was written and directed by Larry Cohen. In it he cast Lund as a wannabe starlet who is murdered on film by a fallen director portrayed by Eric Bogosian, who then finds a lookalike to take her place in the movie he decides to make around the snuff footage. As the starlet, Lund's voice was dubbed by another actress, meaning it wasn't until an hour into her second movie that audiences finally got to hear her distinctly New Yorker inflections (Lund's character in Ms. 45 was mute).
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