Greta Gerwig

His father was a financial analyst and programmer, his mother a nurse. Greta Celeste Serwig was born in Sacramento, in 1983, and was educated in the principles of Unitarian Universalism, an agnostic liberal religious movement, but which had Protestantism as a breeding ground. Culturally restless, Greta first became interested in music and dance in New York, and then in literature and philosophy.

The name of the actress has been associated with the so-called “mumblecore” movement, a current that emerged in American indie cinema, characterized by naturalism and improvisation, and with a rather minority impact. But Serwig was associated with the most representative filmmakers of “mumblecore”, that is, Joe Swanberg ( LOL ), the brothers Mark and Jay Duplass ( Baghead ) and, above all, Noah Baumbach , her boyfriend, with whom she has worked as an actress. on three occasions ( Greenberg , Frances Ha and Mistress America ), as well as participating in the script for the last two.

His most allegedly commercial foray – it was a box office flop – was Arthur , a painful remake of Arthur, the Golden Bachelor . In general, he has opted to put himself under the orders of directors with a well-earned independent band, although he has also sought to reach a wider audience, which meant his intervention in Damiselas in distress , by Whit Stillman , in To Rome with love , by Woody Allen and Wiener-Dog by Todd Solondz . And he has even dared to flirt with European cinema in Eden , by the French Mia Hansen-Løve .

The Chilean Pablo Larraín has counted on her for a small role in Jackie , about the wife of John F. Kennedy. And although he risked to star in the spin-off pilot of the series How I Met Your Mother , which had the title How I Met Your Father , the idea did not come to fruition. So the actress continues with the cinema, and has just participated in a very vindicating film for women, as her title seems to suggest, 20th Century Woman .