Brit Marling
Born: 1982-08-07 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Known For: Acting
Biography
Brit Heyworth Marling (born August 7, 1982) 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 great-grandmother. 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 co-written the film with Mike Cahill and Nicholas Shumaker and co-directed with Mike Cahill. Marling also co-wrote, co-produced, 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 Gere's daughter in Arbitrage. In 2013, she collaborated with Sundance once again on her lead role in The East alongside Elliot Page and Alexander Skarsgård.
Filmography
2026
- Star Trek: Starfleet Academy as USS Athena Computer (voice)
2023
- A Murder at the End of the World as Lee Andersen
2022
- On the Line: The Richard Williams Story ... (Producer)
2019
- This Changes Everything as Self
2016
- The OA as Prairie Johnson
2014
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- Off Camera with Sam Jones as Self
- I Origins as Karen
- Babylon as Liz Garvey
- The Keeping Room as Augusta
- The Better Angels as Nancy Lincoln
- Posthumous as McKenzie Grain
2013
- The East as Sarah
2012
- Arbitrage as Brooke Miller
- The Company You Keep as Rebecca Osborne
2011
- Another Earth as Rhoda Williams
- Sound of My Voice as Maggie
2009
- Community as Page
- Political Disasters as Brit
2007
- Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out ... (Co-Producer)
- The Recordist as Charlie Hall
2006
- Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man ... (Director of Photography)
2005
2004
- Boxers and Ballerinas ... (Director)
2003
- Real Time with Bill Maher as Self