Greta Gerwig

Greta Gerwig Celeste (born 4 August 1983 Sacramento, California) is an American actress, screenwriter and film director. As an actress since the mid- 2000s appeared in productions of the independent American film movement " mumblecore ," she gained international prominence through the female lead in the movie Greenberg (2010).

Biography

Training and first film roles

Greta Gerwig was born in 1983 in Sacramento, where she grew up with a sister. Her father specialized in lending to small and medium-sized companies, their mother is a nurse by profession. At an early stage Gerwig enthusiastic about the theater, but on the advice of her mother studied philosophy and English at New York's Barnard College.

In addition to studying Gerwig wrote plays and founded his own sketch comedy group. Her works have been shown at their university and several theaters. In summer 2006 she was a fellow writer ( "writer -in-residence " ) at Vassar College and at New York Stage & Film 's Powerhouse Theater Festival. Parallel to this work, she began to realize first own movies with friends.

Also in 2006, Gerwig made ​​on the South by Southwest Film Festival ( SXSW ) in Austin (Texas ) acquaintance with the independent filmmaker Joe Swanberg, a representative of the early 2000s in the United States launched " mumblecore " movement. Similar to the Danish Dogme filmmakers whose representatives are characterized by the use of low budgets, hand-held cameras, loose film acts and spontaneous dialogues. That same year, Gerwig was directed by Swanberg her feature film debut in the comedy drama LOL (2006), in which she took the part of a girl who her admirer sends to self-portraits over the phone.

Directorial debut and success with " Greenberg "

American critics first became aware of the actress by Swanbergs third feature film Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007), participated in the Gerwig also on the script. In the drama she starred in the title role of a college graduate who spends a summer in Chicago and in vain for romantic fulfillment examined in their relationships. With appearances in " mumblecore " films Baghead and Yeast (both 2008) by Jay and Mark Duplass or Mary Bronstein became Gerwig as the leading actress of the film movement. In the same year she took over together with Swanberg directing and writing the script for the drama Nights and Weekends (2008 ), in which Gerwig and Swanberg also played the main roles of a couple that needs to run a long distance relationship.

2009 took over from the U.S. service sector The Hollywood Reporter as " indie star" titled actress and filmmaker, her first starring role in a mainstream production. Writer-director Noah Baumbach became aware of Gerwig by the new set of independent films. He felt as "extraordinary " and "very special" and cast her in his tragicomedy Greenberg (2010) with Ben Stiller, who was represented in the competition of the 60th Berlin Film Festival. The part of the young housekeeper Florence, the disorganized dreams in the privacy of a career as a singer, Gerwig made ​​known to an international audience. German -speaking critics hailed the 25 - year-old American then as a new discovery. The critic AO Scott (The New York Times) praised the actress months later as a possible "relevant screen heroine of her generation ". Gerwig seems not to play in some scenes and their transparent presentation would result in less sophisticated technology than from the lack of any method. Nevertheless, Scott likened her performance to that of Zoe Kazan ( Exploding Girl, 2009) and Michelle Williams ( Wendy and Lucy, 2008).

Greta Gerwig lives in New York and is one of the British actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson for their role models. She plans to continue her career as an actress, screenwriter and director. In the pilot film for the offshoot of How I Met Your Mother How I Met Your Dad called it will take over the lead role.

Filmography

  • 2006: LOL
  • 2007: Hannah Takes the Stairs
  • 2008: Baghead
  • 2008: Yeast
  • 2008: Nights and Weekends
  • 2008: Quick Feet, Soft Hands ( short film )
  • 2009: You Wont Miss Me
  • 2009: The House of the Devil
  • 2009: Une aventure New - Yorkaise (TV)
  • 2009: Family Tree (Short Film )
  • 2010: Greenberg
  • 2010: Art House
  • 2010: Northern Comfort
  • 2011: Friends with Benefits ( No Strings Attached )
  • 2011: Arthur
  • 2011: Algebra in Love ( Damsels in Distress )
  • 2011-2012: China, IL (TV series, nine episodes)
  • 2012: The Corrections ( TV movie )
  • 2012: To Rome With Love
  • 2012: Lola vs. the World ( Lola Versus )
  • 2012: Frances Ha

Awards

  • 2010: nominated for a Gotham Award for Greenberg ( Best Young Actress )
  • 2011: Nomination for the Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Greenberg ( Best Young Actress )
  • 2011: nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Greenberg ( Best Actress )
  • 2012: Dublin Film Critics Award at the Dublin International Film Festival for Damsels in Distress ( Best Actress )
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