Age: 43
female
Brit Heyworth Marling (born August 7, 1982) is an American writer, producer, director, and actress. After majoring in economics at Georgetown University, Brit moved to Los Angeles with friends Mike Cahil and Zal Batmanglij to pursue screenplay writing and acting. Marling was born in Chicago, Illinois. She was named "Brit" after her Norwegian maternal great-grandmother. She graduated from Georgetown University in 2005 with degrees in economics and studio art, and was her class Valedictorian. Following graduation from Georgetown, Marling spent a summer interning for the investing banking firm Goldman Sachs. She later turned down a job offer from the firm, opting instead to move to Cuba with friend and director Mike Cahill to film the documentary Boxers and Ballerinas. It was for this documentary that Marling first gained recognition in 2004; having co-written the film with Mike Cahill and Nicholas Shumaker and co-directed with Mike Cahill. Marling also co-wrote, co-produced, and acted in the 2011 films Sound of My Voice and Another Earth. Both of these films were featured at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, with Another Earth winning the Alfred P. Sloan Prize for outstanding film with science, technology or math as a major theme. In 2012, she played Richard Gere's daughter in Arbitrage. In 2013, she collaborated with Sundance once again on her lead role in The East alongside Elliot Page and Alexander Skarsgård.
"Layers of Fear" is an ambitious cinematic journey that intertwines 23 interconnected tales of psychological horror and artistic obsession, creating a captivating narrative experience. The film follows a series of protagonists—an tormented painter, a haunted musician, a struggling actor, a gifted painter, a young journalist, a psychologist, a paranormal investigator, a hacker, a miniature artist, a traumatized college student, a graduate student turned a stay-at-home father, a renowned singer, an intelligent daughter, a deaf artist, a troubled woman, a haunted war veteran, a grieving mother, a curious wanderer, a gifted violinist, a tormented artist, a fearless explorer, a talented adult actor, a mysterious protagonist, and a prolific writer—as they each face their own demons within the layers of their tormented minds. As the stories unfold, viewers are thrust into a labyrinthine world where reality and nightmares merge, challenging their perceptions and plunging them into a realm of chilling suspense. Each character's journey is a descent into the depths of their own consciousness, a confrontation with their darkest fears, and an exploration of the price one pays for artistic brilliance.
