Brit Marling – Brit Marling Biography

Brit marling is an American film actress, writer, producer and director. Was called Brit by her parents in homage to her Norwegian great-grandmother. He studied economics at Georgetown University, graduating in 2005.

His first recognition in the film industry was obtained in 2004 with the documentary “Boxers and Ballerinas“, an exploration of the Cuban-American conflict through the eyes of four characters, two Cubans and two Americans. Brit was co-author of the script and co-director along with Mike cahill, whom he met in college.

Your collaboration with Cahill it was repeated on different occasions in the following years. In 2005 she was director of photography on the documentary that Cahill ralizado over the musician Leonard Cohen, which bore the title “Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man“and, a year later, he co-produced, also with Cahill, a documentary about the mythical band The Police, entitled “Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out“(2006).

Brit He continued his career acting in different productions; the first one was as the protagonist of the science fiction short “The Recordist“(2007); followed by the feature film”Political Disaster“, a drama whose cast headed Tim DeKay.

Already in 2011, Marling wrote, produced and starred “Sound of my voice“, presented at that year’s Sundance Festival along with”Another land“(2011), a story about the appearance of a parallel planet Earth, directed by his friend Mike cahill. “Another land“, won the Alfred P Sloan Award for the best film based on a story where science or technology are its central theme.

Brit She is currently involved in three upcoming film projects. The first one is “Arbitrage“(2012), a thriller whose cast lead Tim roth, Susan Sarandon Y Richard Gere; also with Sarandon accompanied by Shia labeouf Y Stanley tucci will integrate the cast of the trhriller “The Company You Keep“(2012), under the direction of Robert Redford. Finally “The East“(2012) is an action and mystery film in which Marling not only does she act but is also a co-producer and co-writer along with Zal batmanglij. Alexander SkarsgĂ„rd, Ellen page Y Patricia clarkson they will be in charge of the central roles.