Julia Garner

Julia Garner
Born	Julia Garner (1994-02-01) February 1, 1994 Riverdale, New York, US
Residence	New York City, New York
Occupation	Actress, model
Years active	2010–present

Julia Garner (born February 1, 1994)^[1] is an American actress and model. She has appeared in the films Martha Marcy May Marlene, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, and leading roles in Electrick Children, We Are What We Are and Grandma. She has also appeared in several episodes of the television series The Americans.

Personal life

Garner was born in the Riverdale neighborhood, in the Bronx, New York.^[2] Her mother, Tami Gingold, a therapist, had a successful career in Israel around 30 years ago as a comedian. Her father, Thomas Garner, is a painter and an art teacher, originally from Shaker Heights, Ohio. She has an older sister, Anna (Ani), who is a writer, producer and an artist. Garner is Jewish (her father is Protestant and her mother is Jewish).^[1]

Garner resides with her parents in their house in New York City. She considers Italian actress Monica Vitti and especially Bette Davis to be a major influence on her acting style and citing Davis's performance in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?^[1]

Career

She started taking acting lessons at the age of 15 to overcome her shyness. She had her theatrical debut at the age of 17 in Sean Durkin's Martha Marcy May Marlene, playing the role of Sarah.

Paul Weitz, Lily Tomlin, Julia Garner and Mo Aboul-Zelof at Sundance 2015

I started doing student films at Columbia grad school, and this one student filmmaker, his girlfriend was interning at an open casting call for Susan Shopmaker. Later on, she did the stage reading for Martha Marcy May Marlene, then she cast it, and that was my first movie.

In 2012, director David Chase invited her to play a small role which he wrote specifically for her in his movie Not Fade Away.^[1] Her first starring role was in the 2012 movie, Electrick Children.^[1] In 2013, she starred alongside Ashley Bell in the horror film The Last Exorcism Part II, and played the lead in the American remake of the Mexican horror film We Are What We Are.

Garner co-starred in Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014) as new character Marcy, a young stripper who crosses paths with another new character, Johnny (Joseph Gordon-Levitt).^[3] This marked the first time she acted against a green screen.^[1]

In 2015, Garner had a recurring role on the third season of FX's The Americans.^[4]

In 2017, she will appear in the Netflix series Ozark opposite Jason Bateman and Laura Linney.^[5]

Filmography

Films

Television

References

External links

• Julia Garner at the Internet Movie Database