Brit Marling

Brit Heyworth Marling born August 7 1983 is an American writer producer director and actress After majoring in economics at Georgetown University Brit moved to Los Angeles with friends Mike Cahil and Zal Batmanglij to pursue screenplay writing and acting Marling was born in Chicago Illinois She was named Brit after her Norwegian maternal greatgrandmother She graduated from Georgetown University in 2005 with degrees in economics and studio art and was her class Valedictorian Following graduation from Georgetown Marling spent a summer interning for the investing banking firm Goldman Sachs She later turned down a job offer from the firm opting instead to move to Cuba with friend and director Mike Cahill to film the documentary Boxers and Ballerinas It was for this documentary that Marling first gained recognition in 2004 having cowritten the film with Mike Cahill and Nicholas Shumaker and codirected with Mike Cahill Marling also cowrote coproduced and acted in the 2011 films Sound of My Voice and Another Earth Both of these films were featured at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival with Another Earth winning the Alfred P Sloan Prize for outstanding film with science technology or math as a major theme In 2012 she played Richard Geres daughter in Arbitrage In 2013 she collaborated with Sundance once again on her lead role in The East alongside Ellen Page and Alexander Skarsgård