Caroline Kava

Caroline Kava is an American actress and playwright. She is best known for her role as a prostitute in the 1980 film Heaven's Gate and as the wife of Mickey Rourke's character in Year of the Dragon (1985). Kava also portrayed the mother of the title character in Little Nikita (1988) and the mother of Ron Kovic, played by Tom Cruise, in Born on the Fourth of July (1989). She has appeared in television films such as Act of Vengeance (1986) and Guilty Until Proven Innocent (1991). In 2009, Kava adapted Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler for the Mauckingbird Theatre Company in Philadelphia.