Rebecca Miller

For other people named Rebecca Miller, see Rebecca Miller (disambiguation).
Rebecca Miller, Lady Day-Lewis

Born Rebecca Augusta Miller
(1962-09-15) September 15, 1962
Roxbury, Connecticut, U.S.
Occupation Actress, film director, screenwriter
Years active 1988–present
Spouse(s) Daniel Day-Lewis (m. 1996)
Children 2
Parent(s) Arthur Miller
Inge Morath

Rebecca Augusta Miller, Lady Day-Lewis (born September 15, 1962) is an American film director, screenwriter, author, known for her films Angela, Personal Velocity: Three Portraits, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, and Maggie's Plan, all of which she wrote and directed. Miller is the daughter of Magnum photographer Inge Morath and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Arthur Miller.

Early life

Miller was born in Roxbury, Connecticut, and grew up with her father, playwright Arthur Miller, and mother, Austrian-born photographer Inge Morath. Her brother, Daniel, who was born in 1966. Her father was Jewish, and her mother was Protestant. [1][2][3] For a time during childhood, Miller practiced Catholicism on her own accord. [4][5] She has said that she stopped thinking of herself as a Christian "somewhere at the end of college." [6] Miller remembered her childhood in Roxbury surrounded by artists. Sculptor Alexander Calder was a neighbor; so where choreographer Martha Clarke and members of the experimental dance troupe Pilobolus. [7] Immersed in drawing, Miller was tutored by another neighbor, sculptor Philip Grausman. [8]

Miller was educated at Choate Rosemary Hall. In 1980, Miller entered Yale University to study painting and literature. [9] The author Naomi Wolf was her roommate. Miller created wooden panel triptychs she described as hybrids of pictographic forms inspired by Paul Klee and a 15th-century altarpiece. [10] Upon her graduation in 1985, Miller went abroad, working and studying on a fellowship outside Munich, Germany. In 1987, Miller took up residence in New York City, and she showed her painting and sculpture at Leo Castelli Gallery, Victoria Munroe Gallery, and in Connecticut. [11] Miller also studied film at the The New School. Mentored by then 92-year-old professor, photographer, cinematographer, Arnold S. Eagle, she began making non-verbal films, which she exhibited along with her sculpture. [12]

Miller then began an acting career working with Alan Pakula, Paul Mazursky, and Mike Nichols. She landed the female lead in NBC's television movie The Murder of Mary Phagan, and supporting roles in the feature films Regarding Henry (1991) and Consenting Adults (1992). In the theater, Miller played Anya in the Peter Brooks adaptation of Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard," her first stage role in 1988, and she originated the part of Lily in "The American Plan." [13][14][15] Yet, Miller was drawn to her role behind the camera.

In 1991, Miller wrote and directed a short film called "Florence," with actress Marcia Gay Harden, about a highly empathetic women who acquires symptoms from others, eventually catching a neighbor's amnesia and forgetting her identity. [16][17] "Florence" caught the attention of Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati. Miller was invited to direct a revival of Arthur Miller’s After the Fall (play). She also directed Nicole Burdette's play The Bluebird Special Came Through Here. [18]

Career

Miller is a novelist, director, independent filmmaker, and an advocate for women in the film industry. [19][20][21] Miller's work as a filmmaker was a featured in the 2003 IFC documentary In The Company of Women, directed by Lesli Klainberg and Gini Reticker, an overview of films made by women. [22][23] In 2009, Miller was presented with the Maureen O'Hara award which recognizes the achievements of women working in film. [24][25]

Miller wrote and directed her first film, Angela (1995 film) in 1995. It is the story of a 10-year-old girl who is convinced she can purge her soul of sin and thus cure her mentally ill mother. [26][27] The film premiered at premiered at Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema, and screened at Sundance Film Festival. For Angela (1995 film), Miller received the Independent Feature Project (IFP) Gotham Awards, Independent film project's Open Palm Award, and Sundance Film Festival Filmaker Trophy, voted by her peer filmmakers. [28][29] Cinematographer Ellen Kuras was also honored at Sundance and Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film. [30][31]

Miller wrote a collection of prose portraits of women, Personal Velocity (2001, Grove Press), a Washington Post Best Book of 2001. The short stories are also the basis of Miller's 2002 award-winning feature film by the same name. [32][33] Miller adapted the collection to a screenplay, unifying three short films by theme, which she then directed. [34][35] Each film explores the experiences of a woman confronting life-changing questions and personal transformation. [36] Miller credits the poet Honor Moore for helping her "bridge the gap between being a writer of scripts and fiction." [37] The New York Times praised the film as "the work of a talented and highly visual writer." [38] Personal Velocity: Three Portraits screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, the High Falls Film Festival, and was successfully released through United Artists. [39][40] For Personal Velocity: Three Portraits, Miller received the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize in 2002, Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award and National Board of Review of Motion Pictures Special Recognition for Excellence in Filmmaking in 2003. Cinematographer Ellen Kuras was also honored with the Excellence in Cinematography Award at Sundance. [41] Personal Velocity: Three Portraits is part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. [42]

Miller is the screenwriter for the 2005 film adaptation, based on David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Proof. [43] The film, directed by John Madden, stars Gwyneth Paltrow and Anthony Hopkins.

In 2009, Miller directed her fourth film, adapted from her 2002 novel by the same name, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee. [44] The film, starring Robin Wright, Alan Arkin, Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder and Julianne Moore, is a nuanced study of a 50-year-old woman moving into a retirement community with her 80-year-old publisher husband. [45][46] The film shifts in and out of multiple time periods, and characters, flowing back and forth between main character Pippa's memories of her past in New York City in the freewheeling '1970s, and her present life. [47] The Private Lives of Pippa Lee premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, and screened at The Lower East Side Film Festival, Ryerson University, Berlin Film Festival, and Hay Festival in 2009. [48][49][50][51][52]

In 2003, Miller wrote and illustrated A Woman Who. [53] The book is a collection of images of women, in a variety of scenes, each drawn by Miller with her eyes closed.

In 2005, Miller wrote and directed The Ballad of Jack and Rose, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Camilla Belle and Catherine Keener. The film, shot in Nova Scotia and on Prince Edward Island, is a textured, sorrowful coming of age story about 16-year-old Rose, having grown up in isolation with her father. [54] The Ballad of Jack and Rose screened at the Woodstock Film Festival and IFC Center in New York. [55][56] For The Ballad of Jack and Rose, Miller received Honorable Mention from MTV's 2010 The Best Female Directors Who Should Have Won An Oscar. [57]

In 2013, Miller published the novel Jacob's Folly. [58][59][60] The complex novel is about an 18th Century French rake reincarnated as a fly living in modern-day New York with the ability to enter the other characters’ consciousness and influence them. [61][62][63][64] Critic Maureen Corrigan reported, "Miller's writing style is sensuous, and her individual stories expand, opulently, in scope and emotional impact." [65]

Miller wrote the screenplay for Maggie's Plan, based on Karen Rinaldi's original story, and directed the 2015 romantic comedy. [66][67] Maggie's Plan premiered at Toronto International Film Festival Special Presentations, and screened at the New York Film Festival, Montclair Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival, Dublin International Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, USA Film Festival/ Angelika Film Center Dallas, Denver Film Critics Society Women+Film Festival and Miami International Film Festival. [68][69][70][71][72][73][74] Maggie's Plan is distributed in theaters by Sony Pictures Classics. [75] The ensemble cast includes Greta Gerwig, Julianne Moore, Ethan Hawke, Bill Hader and Maya Rudolph. [76][77][78][79][80] Critic Richard Lawson praised the film as "A smart, goofy delight!" [81]

Personal life

Miller first met her future husband, actor Daniel Day-Lewis, on set during the production of the film adaption of the elder Miller's play The Crucible.[82] They were married on November 13, 1996 and have two sons, Ronan (born June 14, 1998) and Cashel (born May 2002).[83] Since her husband received his knighthood Miller is entitled to the title of Lady Day-Lewis.

Filmography

Producer

Director/Screenwriter

Screenwriter

Actress

Bibliography

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