Julia Garner

Julia Garner
Garner in February 2009
Born	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 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, 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.

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]

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2010	The Dreamer	Girl on Sidewalk #3	Short film
2010	One Thousand Cranes	Dorian	Short film
2011	Martha Marcy May Marlene	Sarah
2011	Our Time	Kaya	Short film
2011	Mac & Cheese	Mary Katherine Brown	Short film
2012	Electrick Children	Rachel
2012	Perks of Being a Wallflower, TheThe Perks of Being a Wallflower	Susan
2012	Not Fade Away	Girl in Car
2013	We Are What We Are	Rose Parker
2013	Last Exorcism Part II, TheThe Last Exorcism Part II	Gwen
2013	HairBrained	Shauna
2013	Send	Girl	Short film
2014	Sin City: A Dame to Kill For	Marcie
2014	I Believe in Unicorns	Cassidy
2014	You Can't Win	Chicken	Post-production
2014	Send	Girl	Short film
2015	Good Kids	Tinsley	Completed
2015	Grandma	Sage

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2015	Americans, TheThe Americans	Kimberly Breland	Five episodes

References

1. Shattuck, Kathryn (1 March 2013). "Already a Cinema Veteran at 19". The New York Times.
2. Macaulay, Scott (2012). "Julia Garner". 25 New Faces of Independent Film (story series). Filmmaker. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
3. Chitwood, Adam (29 January 2013). "Eva Green to Lead SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR; Julia Garner Joins Cast". Collider.com.
4. Emami, Gazelle (March 2016). "Making the Americans Great, Again". Vulture.com. Retrieved 16 March 2016.

External links

• Julia Garner at the Internet Movie Database