Brit Marling

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1983-08-07 (41 years old)

Place of Birth Chicago, Illinois, USA

Also Known As Брит Марлинг, 브릿 말링, Brit Heyworth Marling

Brit Marling

Biography

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.

Known For

Actor

2016
The OA

as Prairie Johnson

2016
The OA

as OA / Nina Azarova

2014
Posthumous

as McKenzie Grain

2014
The Keeping Room

as Augusta

2014
I Origins

as Karen

2014
The Better Angels

as Nancy Lincoln

2014
Babylon

as Liz Garvey

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
2009
Community

as Page

2007
The Recordist

as Charlie Hall

Producer

2023
A Murder at the End of the World

as Executive Producer

2016
The OA

as Executive Producer

2013
The East

as Producer

2011
Another Earth

as Producer

2011
Sound of My Voice

as Producer

Writer

2016
The OA

as Writer

2013
The East

as Writer

2011
2011
Another Earth

as Writer

2004

Creator

2016
The OA

as Creator

2016
The OA

as Creator

Director

Crew

2004
Boxers and Ballerinas

as Cinematography

Editor

2004

Camera

2006
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man

as Director of Photography