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.
Greta Gerwig
Writer
for Writer in Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Horrors of High School (2013)
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After 8th grade comes the true horrors of high school, according to Greg's brother, Roderick. Finally overcoming the bearing challenges that was middle school, Greg now has to suffer through 4 years of high school. Finally getting the girl of his dreams, Holly Hills, and hanging out with his best friend, Rowley Jefferson, things seemed to be turning out great with Greg. Until something out of the blue happens to him: his mother is now a teacher at his high school! Realizing that she become an embarrassment to him, Greg does the only thing he can do: by trying to get his mom from teaching at his school so she won't have to embarrass him. But, that only makes things worse from here. Greg causes a lot of trouble that gets him suspended from school for a week, his mom has nearly been fired because of a fire hazardous stunt that Greg almost causes, and Holly and Rowley are now really disappointed in Greg because of his actions and not taking full responsibility for those actions. It's not until an old friend from middle school helps Greg confront his own actions and learn the true responsibility of what it's like as an actual teenager in high school.
