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Marielle Stiles Heller / ˈ m ɑːr i ɛ l / (born October 1, 1979) is an American director, screenwriter and actress. She is best known for directing the films The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015), Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Marielle Heller is a writer, director and actor who has worked on TV shows and movies such as The Diary of a Teenage Girl, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, and The Queen's Gambit. She has won 14 awards and received 32 nominations for her work, and is married to actor Jorma Taccone.
- January 1, 1
- 1.68 m
- Marin County, California, USA
Oct 31, 2020 · On the Netflix series, Heller plays Alma Wheatley, the adoptive mother of Anya Taylor-Joy’s Beth Harmon, a troubled chess prodigy—she's fictional, but with influence from...
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Marielle Heller is an American writer, director, and actor. She is known for her films The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Can You Ever Forgive Me, and A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.
- October 1, 1979
Oct 28, 2020 · The director of ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’ and ‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?’ talks about her acting role as the adoptive mother of a chess prodigy in the Netflix series. She reveals how she built a complex relationship with Anya Taylor-Joy, how she approached Alma’s drinking, and how she felt about the show’s ending.
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Nov 8, 2020 · The writer-director, currently starring in The Queen’s Gambit, has no truck with the idea of tortured genius.
Jun 22, 2021 · Marielle Heller is a wonder as Alma, giving her a dimmed radiance born of sorrow and bathed in alcohol. Heller, an acclaimed director, took a circuitous route to acting. She gave up on it for 10 ...