Brit Marling
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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- 2023 · A Murder at the End of the World as Lee Andersen
- 2019 · This Changes Everything as Self
- 2016 · The OA as Prairie Johnson
- 2016 · The OA as OA / Nina Azarova
- 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- 2014 · Babylon as Liz Garvey
- 2014 · Posthumous as McKenzie Grain
- 2014 · The Keeping Room as Augusta
- 2014 · I Origins as Karen
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as
- 2014 · Off Camera with Sam Jones as Self
- 2014 · The Better Angels as Nancy Lincoln
- 2013 · The East as Sarah
- 2012 · The Company You Keep as Rebecca Osborne
- 2012 · Arbitrage as Brooke Miller
- 2011 · Another Earth as Rhoda Williams
- 2011 · Sound of My Voice as Maggie
- 2009 · Community as Page
- 2009 · Political Disasters as Brit
- 2007 · The Recordist as Charlie Hall
- 2005 · The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
- 2003 · Real Time with Bill Maher as Herself