Age: 42
female
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.
In 1979, in the quiet town of Chamberlain, Maine, sixteen-year-old Carrie White lives on the margins - bullied at school for her appearance and isolated at home by her fanatically religious mother, Margaret, whose rigid beliefs have left Carrie painfully unprepared for the realities of growing up. After a humiliating incident in the locker room triggers her first period - and a cruel public shaming led by popular girl Chris Hargensen - Carrie begins to awaken a terrifying ability: telekinesis, a power tied to her deepest fear, anger, and longing to belong. As her compassionate teacher Miss Desjardin attempts to intervene and fellow student Sue Snell seeks redemption by arranging a prom invitation through her boyfriend Tommy, Carrie dares to imagine a different version of herself - one accepted, even celebrated. But Chris, consumed by vengeance, orchestrates a brutal prank to crown Carrie prom queen only to drench her in pig’s blood before the entire school. In that shattering moment - when joy turns to betrayal - Carrie’s fragile hope collapses, and her power erupts with catastrophic force, sealing the gym and unleashing a fiery, deadly reckoning that destroys the school and claims countless lives, including Tommy’s. Traumatized and unmoored, Carrie’s devastation spreads beyond the prom, leveling parts of the town as she makes her way home to confront her mother, whose twisted love culminates in violence and death. In her final moments, Carrie shares a psychic connection with Sue, revealing the truth of her suffering before dying in her arms. Branded the “Black Prom,” the tragedy leaves a scar on the nation, with survivors grappling with guilt, blame, and unanswered questions about what truly happened - and whether Carrie White was a monster, or simply a girl who was never given a chance to be anything else.
