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Greta Gerwig
Greta Gerwig is an American actress, director, and writer. She first garnered attention after appearing in numerous mumblecore movies. From 2006 to 2009, she acted in a number of Joe Swanberg’s films, some of which she co-directed and co-wrote. Since 2010, Gerwig has collaborated with her boyfriend Noah Baumbach on numerous films, including ‘Frances Ha,’ ‘Greenberg’ and ‘Mistress America.’ As a solo director, she has contributed to the critically acclaimed fun drama flick ‘Lady Bird’ that earned her a Golden Globe along with two Academy Award nominations. Born in Sacramento, California, Gerwig was raised alongside her two siblings. Her dream was to become a playwright but she later turned to acting and ultimately direction and screenwriting. She is a graduate of Barnard College. Her movies are generally based on her own life experiences. Her works have familiar themes: the personal development of the leading woman, especially on the emotional level, and relationships among friends, significant others, and family members. Her films reflect an unusual interest in female dynamics.
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Born
August 4, 1983
Birth Place
Sacramento, California
Nationality
American
Sun Sign
Leo
Also Known As
Greta Celeste Gerwig
Famous As
Actress, Director, Writer
Height
5'8" (173 cm)
Education
St. Francis High School, Barnard College (Columbia University)
Partner
Noah Baumbach (2011–)
Father
Gordon Gerwig
Mother
Christine Gerwig
Children
1
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10 Underrated Movies Recommended by Greta Gerwig

Greta Gerwig's Barbie premieres in July, and it looks set to be one of the year's standout movies. It'll be her first project as a director since 2019's Little Women. Gerwig has come a long way since her start in early-2000s mumblecore. She revealed her more dramatic side as a performer with projects like Frances Ha and 20th Century Women, before establishing herself as a director with Lady Bird — one of the strongest debuts of the last decade.
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Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig break down that bonkers White Noise dance sequence

Warning: This article contains spoilers for White Noise. Writer-director Noah Baumbach's adaptation of White Noise doesn't feature many major deviations from Don DeLillo's 1985 novel about the Gladney family and their encounter with an "airborne toxic event." The one big exception comes at the conclusion of the film, when Baumbach has his characters literally dance away from the text in an extended choreographed sequence which accompanies the end credits. The scene takes place in a supermarket and finds the cast, including leads Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig, grooving through the aisles to the sound of a specially-recorded LCD Soundsystem track entitled "new body rhumba."
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Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach Reveal How 'White Noise' Influenced 'Barbie'

When you think of Barbie, do you also think of an airborne toxic event? Although Noah Baumbach’s and Greta Gerwig’s recent movies Barbie and White Noise seem vastly different from one another, the filmmaking duo revealed that there is actually a connection between them. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Baumbach revealed that he feels that films are connected to each other as they “came out of the same place.”
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Why Greta Gerwig Is the Perfect Filmmaker to Bring ‘Barbie’ to Life

The teaser trailer for Greta Gerwig’s much anticipated Barbie is finally here, giving us just a taste of its star-studded cast, campy costumes, and clever references to Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling as Mattel’s iconic Barbie and Ken dolls, it’s clear from just the minute-long teaser why Gerwig is the perfect director to bring Barbie to life on the big screen for the very first time.
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‘White Noise’ reviews: ‘Pitch-perfect’ Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig shine in ‘surprisingly timely story’

Following a November 25, 2022 limited release, the highly anticipated “White Noise” receives its Netflix launch on December 30. The dark comedy, written and directed by Oscar nominee Noah Baumbach (“Marriage Story,” “The Squid and the Whale”), dramatizes a contemporary American family’s attempts to deal with the mundane conflicts of everyday life while grappling with the universal mysteries of love, death and the possibility of happiness in an uncertain world. It was adapted from the 1985 novel of the same name by Don DeLillo. SEE ‘White Noise’: Will Oscar’s literary love affair extend to Noah Baumbach’s Netflix film? Adam Driver has received a Golden Globe...
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Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach’s ‘Barbie’ Is ‘Connected’ to ‘White Noise’: Both Films ‘Came Out of the Same Place’

Barbie escaping both a doll world and an airborne toxic event? Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig certainly see the makings of another Don LeLillo novel. The co-writers of the upcoming Mattel adaptation, in theaters July 21, revealed that collaborating on Netflix film “White Noise” inspired how they penned the “Barbie” script. And it’s not just big hair that both movies have in common: Baumbach helmed “White Noise,” which starred Gerwig alongside Adam Driver, while Gerwig directs “Barbie” from a script she co-wrote with Baumbach. “I wrote ‘White Noise,’ and then, once I had that in a place where I thought, OK, I’ve done...
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Greta Gerwig thinks White Noise and Barbie could make for an 'interesting' double bill

Filmmakers and real-life couple Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach have spent the past few years working on two seemingly very different movies: White Noise and Barbie. Baumbach's White Noise, which hits Netflix on Dec. 30, is an adaptation of Don LeLillo's acclaimed novel and stars Gerwig and Adam Driver as a couple whose town is threatened by an airborne toxic event. Barbie (out in cinemas July 21), which is written by Baumbach and Gerwig and directed by the latter, stars Margot Robbie as the titular doll and Ryan Gosling as Ken.
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Noah Baumbach to open Venice Film Festival with film starring Greta Gerwig, Adam Driver

Director Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel “White Noise” has been selected to open the Venice International Film Festival in August, festival director Alberto Barbera said Monday. Baumbach wrote and directed the film, which looks at the contemporary American family through the lens of...