Julia Garner

Julia Garner
Garner in February 2009
Born	(1994-02-01) February 1, 1994 Riverdale, New York, US
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2010–present

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

Personal life

Garner was born in the Riverdale neighborhood in Bronx, New York.^[2] Her mother, Tami Gingold, a therapist, had a successful career in Israel around 30 years ago as a comedian, and her father is an art teacher. She has an older sister who is a producer. Garner is Jewish.^[1]

Garner resides with her parents in their house in New York City. She considers actress 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 problem. 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 has a reoccurring role on the third season of FX's The Americans.

Filmography

References

External links

• Julia Garner at the Internet Movie Database