Virginia Newcomb

Virginia Newcomb

Virginia Newcomb is a performer and independent filmmaker known for her acclaimed performance in A24's The Death of Dick Long (2019) by Daniel Scheinert (of Oscar winning, The Daniels). "Best of all might be Lydia, whom Newcomb invests with a terrific energy - fiercely protective, vulnerable and angry all at once - as she reels from the particulars of a situation as imbecilic as it is impossible. You share in her disbelief, and you believe her entirely." LA Times, Justin Chang

This film and others returned her to her home state of Alabama, including producing on Lynn Shelton's Sword of Trust (2019) and numerous award winning short films. Virginia can also be seen in Peacock (2010) with Cillian Murphy, Reparation (2015) with Marc Menchaca, and opposite Jim Cummings in Vanishing Angle's, The Beta Test (2021), which premiered at Berlinale and Tribeca '21 and released by IFC. She performed in Julian Rosefeldt's epic video installation project, Euphoria with Cate Blanchett & Giancarlo Esposito for Park Ave Armory in NYC and toured internationally.

Newcomb's influences hail from a vast theatre background and it's the boundary breaking, media mashup kind that inspire much of her own creative work. Her Broadway debut came in Jay Scheib's live-cinema production of Chekhov's Platonov, which live streamed to Time Square and BAM Rose Cinemas. Virginia took a similar, and more immersive, approach as creator of Cucalorus Film Festival's annual commissioned Blue Velvet installation, Bus To Lumberton. Whether adding dynamic movement to the screen or intimate nuance to theatre, Virginia thrives in commingling these worlds.

A true indie film and alt theater kid, Virginia can also be seen in popular shows, Law & Order SVU, The Walking Dead, The Office, Halt & Catch Fire, and Netflix series From Scratch opposite Zoe Saldana. Catch Virginia as an injured coal minor in the Appalachian Eco-body horror, Occupational Hazard, on Hulu. She was selected to participate in the inaugural Constellation Incubator beginning summer of '21, formed to apply design thinking to re-imagine and scale a more sustainable, equitable filmmaking ecosystem and continues to search for new innovative ways to enrich support for artists. Regardless of role or medium, Virginia desires to share bold, evocative stories in deeply collaborative projects that portray women honestly, particularly in nontraditional southern narrative.

Movies for Virginia Newcomb...

Wasteland
Title: Wasteland
Released: April 13, 2024
Type: Movie
An algorithmologist begins to question his beliefs when a woman shows up to his office uninterested in altering her discontent.
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Don't Die
Title: Don't Die
Character: Julia
Released: April 7, 2024
Type: Movie
Jenks has been pushed to the brink by a system that does not care about him. Desperate for life-saving medicine, he resorts to robbing a small-town drug store. But when he injures a mysterious woman involved in a black market pharmacy, his attempts to save her life may end up jeopardizing his own.
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Likeness
Title: Likeness
Character: Fiona
Released: February 26, 2024
Type: Movie
A young woman works with a digital copy of her mom to investigate the sudden disappearance of her real mom.
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Rumble Through the Dark
Title: Rumble Through the Dark
Character: Jenny
Released: November 3, 2023
Type: Movie
Set in the dark landscape of the Mississippi Delta, where a former bare-knuckle fighter must win one last fight to pay off his debts to the local mob boss and save his childhood home—the stakes nothing less than life or death.
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Come Back Haunted
Title: Come Back Haunted
Released: October 12, 2023
Type: Movie
A recluse woman assumes a motherly role when a teen seeks refuge on her doorstep, but sinister forces follow close behind.
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Euphoria
Title: Euphoria
Released: November 29, 2022
Type: Movie
Artist and filmmaker Julian Rosefeldt creates elaborately staged films that investigate the power of language and the conventions of cinema as an allegory for societal and individual behaviors. With the multi-channel film installation Euphoria he continues this examination by exploring capitalism, colonialism, and the influential effects of unlimited economic growth in society.
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The Beta Test
Title: The Beta Test
Character: Caroline
Released: October 15, 2021
Type: Movie
An engaged Hollywood agent receives a mysterious letter for an anonymous sexual encounter and becomes ensnared in a sinister world of lying, infidelity, and digital data.
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Title: Bite Size Halloween
Character: Diana
Released: October 1, 2020
Type: TV
A series of stand-alone horror shorts ranging from the terrifying to the ridiculous.
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The Recycling Man
Title: The Recycling Man
Character: Valerie
Released: March 30, 2020
Type: Movie
In an overpopulated and underprivileged suburban neighbourhood, Jacob, a boy immobilised on a wheelchair, fights to protect a girl he spots across the courtyard, doing all he can to warn her of the dark figure entering her room - The Recycling Man.
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The Death of Dick Long
Title: The Death of Dick Long
Character: Lydia Olsen
Released: September 27, 2019
Type: Movie
Dick died last night, and Zeke and Earl don’t want anybody finding out how. That’s too bad though, cause news travels fast in small-town Alabama.
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Cherry
Title: Cherry
Character: Helen
Released: September 6, 2019
Type: Movie
With her father dying of cancer, Helen has high hopes for the family's last Easter together.
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Union
Title: Union
Character: Virginia Klaising
Released: August 2, 2019
Type: Movie
A woman disguises herself in the Confederate Army as her dead brother to get revenge on the soldiers who killed her family.
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Washed Away
Title: Washed Away
Released: March 9, 2019
Type: Movie
A teenage girl in an evangelical church youth group must deal with the fallout when her trust is publicly betrayed.
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Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Title: Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Character: Alex's Wife (uncredited)
Released: December 9, 2017
Type: Movie
Four teenagers in detention discover an old video game console with a game they’ve never heard of. When they decide to play, they are immediately sucked into the jungle world of Jumanji in the bodies of their avatars. They’ll have to complete the adventure of their lives filled with fun, thrills and danger or be stuck in the game forever!
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The Atoning
Title: The Atoning
Character: Vera
Released: February 18, 2017
Type: Movie
Vera, Ray, and Sam, a seemingly normal family, are haunted by more than mere ghosts. The lingering horror of their past threatens their ability to function as a loving family until they become enlightened by a mystical encounter. From that moment on, they're thrust into a horror worse than anything they've ever experienced. Personal demons manifest and tear the family apart from the inside out as they come to terms with their past.
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Reparation
Title: Reparation
Character: Lucy
Released: September 9, 2016
Type: Movie
REPARATION is a powerful psychological thriller that swirls like a funnel cloud around Bob Stevens -- a small-town farmer with a three-year hole in his memory. When a mysterious stranger, Jerome, shows up claiming to have been his best friend in the Air Force Police, Bob's peaceful existence begins to unravel from the outside in. Bob's entire family is caught in the storm -- but none more than Bob's eight year-old daughter, Charlotte, who discovers that she might hold the key to conjuring Bob's forgotten past. As Charlotte comes to learn, "every time something happens that knocks us out of balance, we try doing something that will knock us back in..." That universal theme of balance is the soul of REPARATION.
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The Theatre Bizarre
Title: The Theatre Bizarre
Character: Enola Penny
Released: July 15, 2011
Type: Movie
Down a seedy city street in her neighborhood, young Enola Penny is obsessed with what appears to be a long abandoned theatre. One night, she sees that the front door is slightly ajar and impulsively decides to sneak inside. But there in the dark, decrepit auditorium, a show unlike any other unfolds before her eyes. Its host is an eerie human puppet named Peg Poett who will introduce Penny to six tales of the bizarre: A couple traveling in a remote part of the French Pyrenees cross paths with a lustful witch; A paranoid lover faces the wrath of a partner who has been pushed to her limit; The Freudian dreams of an unfaithful husband blur the lines between fantasy and reality; The horrors of the real world are interpreted through the mind of a child; A woman addicted to other people's memories gets her fix through the vitreous fluid of her victims' eyeballs; And a perverse obsession with sweets turns sour for a couple in too deep.
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Peacock
Title: Peacock
Character: Doris
Released: April 20, 2010
Type: Movie
A man with a split personality fools his small town into believing his two alter egos are a man and a wife, although a struggling young mother holds the key to his past and sparks a battle between the two personalities.
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Side Effect
Title: Side Effect
Character: Lauren
Released: March 6, 2008
Type: Movie
Lauren is an overachieving teenage babysitter for the Allens, who leave her in charge of their adorable young children, while they head out for some much-needed alone time. Unbeknownst to them, Lauren, overworked and overstressed, is getting a little extra help from a new prescription medication. The meds come on strong, twisting Lauren's appearance and causing an icy change in her demeanor, but the powerful medication also helps her get all of her duties done in a quick and efficient manner. Everything seems normal until Mr. and Mrs. Allen return home to discover the horrifying result of Lauren's brutal efficiency. Side Effect is a blood-curdling tale of science gone wrong in a pill-popping culture where the cure is more deadly than the disease.
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Earth to America
Title: Earth to America
Character: Self
Released: November 20, 2005
Type: Movie
Tom Hanks is the host of this show with a comic approach to raise awareness concerning the environment.
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Title: The Office
Character: Assistant
Released: March 24, 2005
Type: TV
The everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company.
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Moonlight Mile
Title: Moonlight Mile
Character: Cheryl's Friend #2
Released: September 9, 2002
Type: Movie
As he copes with the death of his fiancee along with her parents, a young man must figure out what he wants out of life.
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Title: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Character: Heather Curtis
Released: October 6, 2000
Type: TV
A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that solve the mystery.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Amber Hayes
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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Skim
Title: Skim
Character: Hanna
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Set in South Florida, a young woman in the pool cleaning industry, desperate to alter her lot in life, soon finds there is no easy way out.
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Abductee
Title: Abductee
Character: Laurie Freeman
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Abductee is a chilling "found footage" film set in the outskirts of Portland, Oregon. Terrifying in a way that few other horror films are, Abductee explores the bizarre and misunderstood world of alien abduction. Through a first person account, we come to know the fear and mental anguish that befalls a man as he attempts to unravel the mystery of what happens to him when he is alone in the middle of the night. Drew hasn't been sleeping very well. On numerous occasions he awakes suddenly, completely unable to move, a victim of a common, but terrifying disorder called Sleep Paralysis. After suffering from this condition for many years, Drew finally decides to take matters into his own hands and capture his nighttime episodes on video, in order to find out exactly what he is experiencing while he is frozen in his bed. With money inherited from his recently deceased father, Drew purchases an array of surveillance cameras and microphones and mounts them around his house in order to ...