Brit Marling
Known For
Acting
Born
1982-08-07 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Biography
Brit Heyworth Marling (born August 7, 1982) 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 Elliot Page and Alexander Skarsgård.
Most Known For
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
Community
as Page
Real Time with Bill Maher
as Self
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
as Self
The OA
as Prairie Johnson
The OA
as OA / Nina Azarova
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
Off Camera with Sam Jones
as Self
A Murder at the End of the World
as Lee Andersen
Arbitrage
as Brooke Miller
I Origins
as Karen
Babylon
as Liz Garvey
The Recordist
as Charlie Hall
The Company You Keep
as Rebecca Osborne
The East
as Sarah
Another Earth
as Rhoda Williams
Sound of My Voice
as Maggie
The Keeping Room
as Augusta
This Changes Everything
as Self
The Better Angels
as Nancy Lincoln