Greta Gerwig Net Worth And Biography

Greta Celeste Gerwig professionally known as Greta Gerwig is an American actress, screenwriter, and director. She first gained attention after working on and appearing in several mumblecore films. In this article, RNN details Greta Gerwig’s net worth, biography, and career via pieces of information gathered from Wikipedia, and Celebritynetworth.

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Bio-Data

Biography

Greta Gerwig was born in Sacramento, California on the 4th of August, 1983, and she was brought up in the River Park neighbourhood. Her mother, Christine Gerwig was an OB-GYN nurse and her father, Gordon Gerwig worked for a credit union on small business loans. With the kind of close relationship she has with her parents, they made an appearance in Frances Ha as the parents of the character she played. Her older brother is a landscape architect and her sister is a manager at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Greta Gerwig is of German, Irish, and English ancestry, and she was raised as a Unitarian Universalist. She attended St. Francis High School which was an All-girls Catholic School in Sacramento, she graduated from the school in 2002. At first, she picked up competitive fencing as a result of her interest in dance but had to quit due to the high costs. Again, she intended to study musical theatre in New York but ended up studying English and Philosophy, and graduating from Barnard College with a degree. She also performed in the Columbia University Show with her dorm-mate, McKinnon.

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Early Career

Initially, Greta Gerwig wanted to become a playwright but went into acting following her declined admission to playwriting MFA programs. While still studying at Bernard College (2006), she was cast in a minor role in Hoe Swanberg’s LOL, and also appeared in Baghead by Jay and Mark Duplass, Afterwards, she began a partnership with Joe Swanberg, and they ended up co-writing Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007). They also shared writing and directorial duties on Nights and Weekends (2008). These films made her an essential figure in the rising mumblecore film movement, often referred to as an “it girl”. She also had an association with some other mumblecore filmmakers and appeared in various films. Greta Gerwig also recounted that, at the age of 25 (2008), she was depressed and it seemed like acting was working for her, so, she returned to acting classes.

Career Breakthrough

In 2010, Greta Gerwig starred in Noah Baumbach’s Greenberg and her work in the film received an appraisal as well as her works in other films. In the appraisal, The New York Times critic A. O. Scott described Greta Gerwig as an “ambassador of a cinematic style that often seems opposed to the very idea of style.” He also wrote, “…she seems to be embarked on a project,”  “…however piecemeal and modestly scaled, of redefining just what it is we talk about when we talk about acting.” In the same year, she made her first talk show appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

From 2011 to 2015, she voiced one of the main characters in the Adult Swim animated sitcom series, China, IL. In 2011, she was cast as a lead character in The Corrections. She then appeared in, To Rome With Love, playing alongside Jesse Eisenberg and Alec Baldwin.

She co-wrote Frances Ha (the film her real-life parents played her character’s parents) with Baumbach. The film was released in May 2013 after touring the festival circuit since September 2012. Playing the title role, she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. Her third collaboration with Baumbach is Mistress America, and it was released in August 2015, receiving generally positive reviews.

2014

In May 2014, Greta Gerwig made her stage debut, playing Becky in The Village Bike at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in New York, and the show ran until the end of June of the same year. Then, she was nominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Actress. In the same year, she was cast as the lead character in a spin-off of How I Met Your Mother, which was titled How I Met Your Dad.

Afterwards, she starred in Plan which premiered as an official selection of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. The film was also screened at the Sundance Film Festival (2016), and the 66th Berlin International Film Festival. She also starred in Pablo Larraín’s Jackie, and Mike Mills’ 20th Century Women. Both performances earned her acclaim and she also bagged a nomination for the Critics’ Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 2016, she guest-starred in two episodes of the comedy series, The Mindy Project.

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Directorial Career

In 2017, Greta Gerwig wrote and also made her solo directorial debut with the film, Lady Bird. The film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and was theatrically released in November 2017. It was a huge success as it grossed over $78 million, superseding the initial worldwide budget of $10 million. The film also received widespread critical acclaim and it was chosen by the National Board of Review, the American Film Institute, and Time Magazine as one of the top ten films of 2017.

The film, Lady Bird won Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy and Best Actress at the 75th Golden Globe Awards. It also received nominations for Best Supporting Actress for Laurie Metcalf and Best Screenplay for Greta Gerwig. At the 90th Academy Awards, the film was again nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay for Greta Gerwig, Best Actress for Ronan, and Best Supporting Actress for Metcalf. Greta Gerwig’s nomination made her the fifth woman in Oscar history to be nominated for Best Director.

2018-Present

In 2018, following the success of Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig was part of the voice cast of the animated film, Isle of Dogs which premiered at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival to critical acclaim. Afterwards, it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. In the same year, it was announced that she would direct a new film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s novel, Little Women. Little Women was released in December 2019 to widespread critical acclaim. At the 92nd Academy Awards, the film received six nominations and it was frequently mentioned as part of an Oscars controversy after no woman (including Greta Gerwig). The snub was publicly noted by Hillary Clinton, Saturday Night Live, and others. Greta Gerwig was one of the featured names on the outfit that Natalie Portman wore to the ceremony, featuring the surnames of snubbed female directors from that year’s ceremony.

Greta Gerwig will co-star in Baumbach’s upcoming film, White Noise, adapted from the novel of the same name by Don DeLillo for Netflix. The movie will open both the 79th Venice International Film Festival, and the 60th New York film Festival, and would be available on streaming platforms in late 2022. Alongside her partner, she co-wrote and would be directing the Warner Bros. live-action Barbie film, starring Margot Robbie in the title role. It is expected to open theatrically on July 21, 2023.

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Greta Gerwig’s Net Worth

As of 2022, Greta Gerwig’s net worth is estimated at $4 million.

Personal Life

Greta Gerwig lives in Brooklyn with her business partner and husband, Noah Baumbach. In March 2019, there came an announcement stating that Greta Gerwig had given birth to her first child with her husband. The child’s name is Harold.

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Notable Awards

• 2017: Alliance of Women Film Journalists, Boston Society of Film Critics, Chicago Film Critics Association, Dallas-Forth Worth Film Critics Association, Georgina Film Critics Association, Houston Film Critics Society, Independent Spirit Awards, IndieWire Critics Poll, International Cinephile Society, Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society, National Board of Review, National Society of Film Critics, and San Diego Film Critics Society.
• 2019: Alliance of Women Film Journalists, Austin Film Critics Association, Boston Society of Film Critics, Chicago Film Critics Association, Florida Film Critics Circle, and National Board of Review.
• 2020: Critics Choice Movie Awards.