Brit Marling

Born: 1983-08-07

Brit Heyworth Marling (born August 7, 1983) is an American writer, producer, director, and actress. After majoring in economics at Georgetown University, Brit moved to Los Angeles with friends Mike Cahil and Zal Batmanglij to pursue screenplay writing and acting. Marling was born in Chicago, Illinois. She was named "Brit" after her Norwegian maternal great-grandmother. She graduated from Georgetown University in 2005 with degrees in economics and studio art, and was her class Valedictorian. Following graduation from Georgetown, Marling spent a summer interning for the investing banking firm Goldman Sachs. She later turned down a job offer from the firm, opting instead to move to Cuba with friend and director Mike Cahill to film the documentary Boxers and Ballerinas. It was for this documentary that Marling first gained recognition in 2004; having co-written the film with Mike Cahill and Nicholas Shumaker and co-directed with Mike Cahill. Marling also co-wrote, co-produced, and acted in the 2011 films Sound of My Voice and Another Earth. Both of these films were featured at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, with Another Earth winning the Alfred P. Sloan Prize for outstanding film with science, technology or math as a major theme. In 2012, she played Richard Gere's daughter in Arbitrage. In 2013, she collaborated with Sundance once again on her lead role in The East alongside Ellen Page and Alexander Skarsgård.


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I Origins

as Karen
Released: 2014-07-18

A molecular biologist's study of the human eye has far-reaching implications about humanity's...

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Arbitrage

as Brooke Miller
Released: 2012-09-14

A troubled hedge fund magnate, desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire, makes an...

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The Company You Keep

as Rebecca Osborne
Released: 2012-12-20

A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who discovers his identity.

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as Rhoda Williams
Released: 2011-07-22

On the night of the discovery of a duplicate Earth in the Solar system, an ambitious young...

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The Keeping Room

as Augusta
Released: 2014-09-25

In this radically reimagined American Western set towards the end of the Civil War, Southerner...

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The East

as Sarah
Released: 2013-05-31

An operative for an elite private intelligence firm finds her priorities irrevocably changed...

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Sound of My Voice

as Maggie
Released: 2011-01-22

A journalist and his girlfriend get pulled in while they investigate a cult whose leader claims...

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The Better Angels

as Nancy Lincoln
Released: 2014-01-18

At an isolated log cabin in the harsh wilderness of Indiana circa 1817, the rhythms of love,...

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This Changes Everything

as Self
Released: 2019-06-28

An investigative look and analysis of gender disparity in Hollywood, featuring accounts from...

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Posthumous

as McKenzie Grain
Released: 2014-10-04

After false reports of his demise put him and his work on the map, an artist decides to continue...

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Political Disasters

as Brit
Released: 2009-02-03

In the opening years of the new millennium, two mutually dependent families attempt to extricate...

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The Recordist

as Charlie Hall
Released: 2007-03-26

When Charlie Hall encounters an eccentric older woman named Avis Dauphin her life is turned...

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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

as Self
First aired: 2014-02-17

After Jay Leno's second retirement from the program, Jimmy Fallon stepped in as his permanent...

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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

as uncredited
First aired: 2014-02-17

After Jay Leno's second retirement from the program, Jimmy Fallon stepped in as his permanent...

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The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

as Self
First aired: 2005-01-03

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson is an American late-night talk show hosted by Scottish...

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Real Time with Bill Maher

as Herself
First aired: 2003-02-21

Each week Bill Maher surrounds himself with a panel of guests which include politicians, actors,...

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Community

as Page
First aired: 2009-09-17

Follow the lives of a group of students at what is possibly the world’s worst community college...

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Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

as Self
First aired: 2014-12-21

PBS SoCal and Variety take you inside the biggest movies and T.V. shows of the past year through...

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The OA

as Prairie Johnson
First aired: 2016-12-16

Prairie Johnson, blind as a child, comes home to the community she grew up in with her sight...

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The OA

as OA / Nina Azarova
First aired: 2016-12-16

Prairie Johnson, blind as a child, comes home to the community she grew up in with her sight...

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Off Camera with Sam Jones

as Self
First aired: 2014-02-06

Photographer and director Sam Jones sits down with the myriad professionals of television and...

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A Murder at the End of the World

as Lee Andersen
First aired: 2023-11-14

Gen Z amateur sleuth and tech-savvy hacker Darby Hart and eight other guests are invited by a...

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Babylon

as Liz Garvey
First aired: 2014-11-13

London's police force is in need of a public image revamp. And Chief Constable Richard Miller...

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