Greta Gerwig

Greta Gerwig is an American actress playwright screenwriter and director based in NY She has collaborated with Noah Baumbach on several films including Greenberg 2010 Frances Ha 2012 for which she earned a Golden Globe nomination and Mistress America 2015 Gerwig made her solo directorial debut with the critically acclaimed comedydrama film Lady Bird 2017 which she also wrote and has also had starring roles in the films Damsels in Distress 2011 Jackie 2016 and 20th Century Women 2016 Greta Celeste Gerwig was born in Sacramento California to Christine Gerwig née Sauer a nurse and Gordon Gerwig a financial consultant and computer programmer She has German Irish and English ancestry Gerwig was raised as a Unitarian Universalist but also attended an allgirls Catholic school She has described herself as an intense child With an early interest in dance she intended to get a degree in musical theatre in New York She graduated from Barnard College in NY where she studied English and philosophy instead Originally intending to become a playwright after meeting young film director Joe Swanberg she became the star of a series of intellectual low budget movies made by firsttime filmmakers a trend dubbed mumblecore Gerwig was cast in a minor role in Swanbergs LOL 2006 in 2006 while still studying at Barnard She then appeared in many of Swanbergs films and personally codirected cowrote and coproduced one entitled Nights and Weekends 2008 She has worked with good quality directors such as Ti West The House of the Devil 2009 Whit Stillman Damsels in Distress 2011 or Woody Allen To Rome with Love 2012 but success and international recognition did not come until Frances Ha 2012 directed by Noah Baumbach a film she also cowrote Both tall and immature awkward and graceful blundering and candid annoying and engaging Greta has won all hearts in the title role of Frances Haliday In 2017 she wrote and directed the highly acclaimed semiautobiographical teen movie Lady Bird 2017 set in 20022003 and starring Saoirse Ronan Laurie Metcalf and Timothée Chalamet In 2011 Gerwig received an award for Acting from the Athena Film Festival for her artistry as one of Hollywoods definitive screen actresses of her generation