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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 comedy-... more

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 comedy-drama 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 all-girls 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 first-time filmmakers, a trend dubbed "mumblecore". Gerwig was cast in a minor role in Swanberg's LOL (2006) in 2006, while still studying at Barnard. She then appeared in many of Swanberg's films, and personally co-directed, co-wrote and co-produced 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 co-wrote. Both tall and immature, awkward and graceful, blundering and candid, annoying and engaging, Greta has won all hearts in the title role of Frances Ha(liday).

In 2017, she wrote and directed the highly acclaimed, semi-autobiographical teen movie Lady Bird (2017), set in 2002-2003, 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 Hollywood's definitive screen actresses of her generation.

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Isle of Dogs
(2018)
Adventure, Animation, Comedy
In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island that's a garbage dump. The outcasts must soon embark on an epic journey when a 12-year-old boy arrives on the island to find his beloved pet.
Runtime:
101 min
Director:
Wes Anderson
Cast:
Bryan Cranston, Bryan Cranston, Koyu Rankin, Edward Norton, Bill Murray
7.9
90%
82
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Frances Ha
(2013)
Comedy, Drama
An aspiring dancer moves to New York City and becomes caught up in a whirlwind of flighty fair-weather friends, diminishing fortunes and career setbacks.
Runtime:
86 min
7.4
93%
82
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No Strings Attached
(2011)
Comedy, Romance
Emma is a busy doctor who sets up a seemingly perfect arrangement when she offers her best friend Adam a relationship with one rule: No strings attached. But when a fling becomes a thing, can sex friends stay best friends?
Runtime:
107 min
Director:
Ivan Reitman
Cast:
Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Greta Gerwig, Olivia Thirlby, Kevin Kline
6.2
49%
50
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Jackie
(2016)
Drama
An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
Pablo Larraín
Cast:
Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig
6.8
88%
81
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To Rome with Love
(2012)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Four tales unfold in the Eternal City: While vacationing in Rome, architect John encounters a young man whose romantic woes remind him of a painful incident from his own youth; retired opera director Jerry discovers a mortician with an amazing voice, and he seizes the opportunity to rejuvenate his own flagging career; a young couple ha...
Runtime:
111 min
6.3
44%
54
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20th Century Women
(2016)
Drama
In 1979 Santa Barbara, California, Dorothea Fields is a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion. Dorothea enlists the help of two younger women – Abbie, a free-spirited punk artist living as a boarder in the Fields' home and Julie, a savvy...
Runtime:
119 min
Director:
Mike Mills
Cast:
Elle Fanning, Annette Bening, Greta Gerwig
7.4
88%
83
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The House of the Devil
(2009)
Horror, Mystery
In the 1980s, college student Samantha Hughes takes a strange babysitting job that coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret.
Runtime:
95 min
Director:
Ti West
Cast:
Jocelin Donahue, Mary Woronov, Greta Gerwig, AJ Bowen, Heather Robb
6.4
86%
73
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Side by Side
(2012)
Documentary
Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over the past two decades, a new form of digital filmmaking has emerged, creating a groundbreaking evolution in the medium. Keanu Reeves explores the development of cinema and the impact of digital filmmaking via in-depth interviews with Holly...
Runtime:
99 min
Director:
Christopher Kenneally
Cast:
Keanu Reeves, Martin Scorsese, James Cameron, David Fincher, David Lynch
7.6
92%
82
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Mistress America
(2015)
Comedy
Tracy, a lonely college freshman in New York, is rescued from her solitude by her soon-to-be stepsister Brooke, an adventurous gal about town who entangles her in alluringly mad schemes.
Runtime:
84 min
Director:
Noah Baumbach
Cast:
Greta Gerwig, Lola Kirke, Charlie Gillette, Dean Wareham
6.7
83%
75
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Greenberg
(2010)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
A New Yorker moves to Los Angeles in order to figure out his life while he housesits for his brother, and he soon sparks with his brother's assistant.
Runtime:
107 min
Director:
Noah Baumbach
Cast:
Greta Gerwig, Ben Stiller, Chris Messina, Koby Rouviere, Sydney Rouviere
6.1
75%
76
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Arthur
(2011)
Comedy, Romance
A drunken playboy stands to lose a wealthy inheritance when he falls for a woman that his family doesn't like.
Runtime:
110 min
Director:
Jason Winer
Cast:
Russell Brand, Helen Mirren, Greta Gerwig, Jennifer Garner, Geraldine James
5.7
26%
36
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Maggie's Plan
(2016)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Maggie's plan to have a baby on her own is derailed when she falls in love with John, a married man, destroying his volatile marriage to the brilliant and impossible Georgette. But one daughter and three years later, Maggie is out of love and in a quandary: what do you do when you suspect your man and his ex wife are actually perfect f...
Runtime:
98 min
Director:
Rebecca Miller
Cast:
Julianne Moore, Ethan Hawke, Bill Hader, Maya Rudolph, Greta Gerwig
6.2
N/A
76
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Wiener-Dog
(2016)
Comedy, Drama
Wiener-Dog tells several stories featuring people who find their life inspired or changed by one particular dachshund, who seems to be spreading a certain kind of comfort and joy. Man’s best friend starts out teaching a young boy some contorted life lessons before being taken in by a compassionate vet tech named Dawn Wiener. Dawn reuni...
Runtime:
88 min
Director:
Todd Solondz
Cast:
Greta Gerwig, Julie Delpy, Brie Larson, Danny DeVito, Ellen Burstyn
5.9
75%
66
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Damsels in Distress
(2012)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
A trio of beautiful girls set out to revolutionize life at a grungy American university: the dynamic leader Violet Wister, principled Rose and sexy Heather. They welcome transfer student Lily into their group which seeks to help severely depressed students with a program of good hygiene and musical dance numbers.
Runtime:
99 min
5.7
76%
67
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Baghead
(2008)
Comedy, Drama, Horror, Romance
Four actors go to a cabin in the woods to write, direct, and act in a film that will jump-start their careers. Their idea is a horror film about a man with a bag over his head, but what happens when that man mysteriously shows up?
Runtime:
84 min
Director:
Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass
Cast:
Ross Partridge, Steve Zissis, Greta Gerwig, Elise Muller, Jett Garner
6.0
79%
62
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Lola Versus
(2012)
Comedy
Just three weeks before her wedding, Lola (Greta Gerwig) finds herself suddenly without a partner when her longtime fiance, Luke (Joel Kinnaman), dumps her. With her 30th birthday looming and being forced to re-enter the New York City dating scene, she feels adrift in a cold world. She leans on her friends (Zoe Lister-Jones, Hamish Lin...
Runtime:
87 min
Director:
Daryl Wein
Cast:
Greta Gerwig, Joel Kinnaman, Bill Pullman, Zoe Lister-Jones, Debra Winger
5.4
35%
49
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Eden
(2014)
Drama, Music
Paul, a teenager in the underground scene of early-nineties Paris, forms a DJ collective with his friends and together they plunge into the nightlife of sex, drugs, and endless music.
Runtime:
131 min
6.4
N/A
82
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The Humbling
(2014)
Comedy, Drama
Following a breakdown and suicide attempt, an aging actor becomes involved with a much younger woman but soon finds that it's difficult to keep pace with her.
Runtime:
112 min
Director:
Barry Levinson
Cast:
Greta Gerwig, Al Pacino, Mandy Patinkin, Kyra Sedgwick, Charles Grodin
5.6
51%
59
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Hannah Takes the Stairs
(2007)
Drama, Romance
Hannah is a recent college graduate interning at a Chicago production company. She is crushing on two writers at work, Matt and Paul, who share an office and keep her entertained. Will a relationship with one of them disrupt the delicate balance of their friendship?
Runtime:
83 min
Director:
Joe Swanberg
Cast:
Greta Gerwig, Kent Osborne, Andrew Bujalski, Ry Russo-Young, Mark Duplass
5.6
59%
63
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Nights and Weekends
(2008)
Drama, Romance
A man and woman must face the tension that builds between them during a long-distance relationship.
Runtime:
87 min
Director:
Joe Swanberg, Greta Gerwig
Cast:
Greta Gerwig, Joe Swanberg, Jay Duplass, Lynn Shelton
6.2
89%
59
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The Dish & the Spoon
(2011)
Drama
Two wounded souls commiserate through drinking and aimless wandering while acting out the roles of the happy relationships that elude them in reality. Greta Gerwig and Olly Alexander deliver beautifully-tuned comic performances in their portrayal of young adults learning to cope with the unavoidable perils of emotional dependency.
Runtime:
90 min
5.7
58%
72
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LOL
(2006)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
The relationships of three men are examined through their use of technology.
Runtime:
81 min
Director:
Joe Swanberg
Cast:
Joe Swanberg, Greta Gerwig, Tipper Newton
4.8
100%
63
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A NY Thing
(2009)
Comedy, Romance
Masquerading as another man, Antoine flies to New York for a three-day stay and promptly falls in love with Alice, who's dating someone else. When that doesn't work out for him, Antoine turns to the city itself for inspiration.
Runtime:
81 min
Director:
Olivier Lécot
Cast:
Jonathan Zaccaï, Fanny Valette, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Greta Gerwig
6.2
N/A
N/A
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Making a Scene
(2013)
Fantasy
For this year's Movies Issue, The New York Times Magazine commissioned lines from an eclectic and talented group of screenwriters — writers responsible for some of the best scripts of 2013. We asked them each to write a single line for us — not a scene, a script or a scenario, but simply an intriguing, amusing or captivating line of di...
Runtime:
10 min
Director:
Janusz Kaminski
Cast:
Oscar Isaac, Oprah Winfrey, Robert Redford, Cate Blanchett, Forest Whitaker
5.9
N/A
N/A
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Yeast
(2008)
Comedy, Drama
A maddeningly oblivious, tyrannical and emotionally stunted young woman tries her best to negotiate two toxic friendships.
Runtime:
78 min
5.3
N/A
N/A
Art House
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Art House
(2010)
Comedy, Drama
A communal house left in trust many years ago to provide art students support in the way of free housing, ART HOUSE has accumulated its share of legends, lore, art, art junk and a reputation for hard partying. When a university dean and an influential descendant of the original benefactor decide to turn the place into housing for varsi...
Runtime:
94 min
5.6
N/A
N/A
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Family Tree
(2009)
Drama
Siblings Tim and Lena squabble after he detects her disinterest in his long-term family genealogy project.
Runtime:
10 min
Director:
Kentucker Audley
Cast:
Jessy Brodsky, Hallie Cooper-Novack, Lena Dunham, Greta Gerwig, Ana Kayne
4.7
N/A
N/A