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Brit Marling

Brittany Heyworth "Brit" Marling (born August 7, 1983)is an American writer, producer, director, and actress.

Life and career

Marling was born in Chicago, Illinois. She graduated from Georgetown University in 2005 with a degree in economics. She was named "Brit" after her Norwegian maternal great-grandmother.
She first gained recognition in 2004 for the documentary Boxers and Ballerinas which she co-wrote 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.

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
2007 The Recordist Charlie Hall Short
2011 Another Earth Rhoda Williams San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress
Sitges Film Festival Award for Best Actress
Nominated — Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Most Promising Performer
Nominated — Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature
Nominated — Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay
Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Actress
2011 Community Paige 1 episode
2012 Sound of My Voice Maggie
2012 Arbitrage Brooke Miller
2012 The Company You Keep Rebecca
2012 The East Sarah
2013 The Green Blade Rises Nancy Lincoln

















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