Abigail Mead's Real Name: Vivian Kubrick

Quick answer: Abigail Mead is a pseudonym of Vivian Vanessa Kubrick, daughter of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. She composed the original electronic score for Full Metal Jacket (1987) under that credit.

Pseudonym, not a separate person

Contemporary reporting and cataloging treat Abigail Mead as Vivian Kubrick's scoring alias. The Los Angeles Times covered Academy eligibility controversy around the Full Metal Jacket score and identified Mead as Kubrick's daughter. Library of Congress authorities list Kubrick, Vivian, 1960–. AFI Catalog and museum notes on the "I Wanna Be Your Drill Instructor" cues likewise attribute the music to Vivian Kubrick as Abigail Mead (AFI Catalog; Bill Douglas Cinema Museum).

She was born August 5, 1960 (widely listed), to Stanley Kubrick and Christiane Kubrick, and also appeared on screen (notably as the daughter of the astronaut Bowman in 2001: A Space Odyssey as a child) and filmed behind-the-scenes documentary material on her father's sets.

Full Metal Jacket score

For Stanley Kubrick's Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket, Vivian Kubrick created an original score credited to Abigail Mead, using synthesizers for drill-instructor and combat atmospheres that sit beside period source music. The Mead credit is the name music supervisors and discographies still use when indexing that soundtrack.

Public information on her later private life is limited; this page focuses on the documented identity link between Abigail Mead and Vivian Kubrick and the Full Metal Jacket credit.

Full Metal Jacket Blu-ray/DVD Full Metal Jacket soundtrack CD books on Stanley Kubrick's films covering FMJ