29 Facts About Greta Gerwig

Greta Celeste Gerwig is an American actress, screenwriter, and film director.

Greta Gerwig began her career working with Joe Swanberg on films such as Hannah Takes the Stairs and Nights and Weekends.

Greta Gerwig has collaborated with her husband Noah Baumbach on several films, including Greenberg and Frances Ha, for which she received a Golden Globe Award nomination, Mistress America, and White Noise.

Greta Gerwig acted in such films as Whit Stillman's Damsels in Distress, Woody Allen's To Rome with Love, Rebecca Miller's Maggie's Plan, Pablo Larrain's Jackie, Mike Mills' 20th Century Women, and Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs.

Greta Gerwig was born in Sacramento, California, and grew up in the River Park neighborhood.

Greta Gerwig is the daughter of Christine, an OB-GYN nurse, and Gordon Gerwig, who worked for a credit union on small business loans.

Greta Gerwig is close to her parents and they make an appearance in Frances Ha as her character's parents.

Greta Gerwig has an older brother, a landscape architect; and a sister, a manager at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Greta Gerwig attended St Francis High School, an all-girls Catholic school in Sacramento, and graduated in 2002.

Greta Gerwig had intended to complete a degree in musical theater in New York; however, she ended up graduating from Barnard College with a degree in English and philosophy.

Greta Gerwig originally intended to become a playwright, but she turned to acting when she was not admitted to playwriting MFA programs.

Greta Gerwig began a partnership with Swanberg, which resulted in the duo's co-writing Hannah Takes the Stairs, and sharing both writing and directing duties on Nights and Weekends.

In 2010, Greta Gerwig starred in Noah Baumbach's Greenberg with Ben Stiller, Rhys Ifans, and Jennifer Jason Leigh.

In February 2014, Greta Gerwig served as a jury member at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival.

In May 2014, Greta Gerwig made her stage debut as Becky in Penelope Skinner's The Village Bike at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in New York.

Greta Gerwig uses the off-balance, open-faced presence she brought to films like Frances Ha and Greenberg to hook us from the moment we set eyes on her.

Greta Gerwig was nominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Actress for her performance.

Greta Gerwig was cast in the lead role in a spin-off of How I Met Your Mother titled How I Met Your Dad in 2014, but it was not picked up to series.

Greta Gerwig's next starring role was in Rebecca Miller's Maggie's Plan, which premiered as an official selection of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, opening to positive reviews.

That same year, Greta Gerwig played supporting roles as White House Social Secretary Nancy Tuckerman in Pablo Larrain's drama film Jackie, and Abigail Porter in Mike Mills' coming-of-age comedy 20th Century Women, earning acclaim for both performances, particularly her work in the latter, for which she earned a nomination for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress.

In 2017, Greta Gerwig made her solo directorial debut with the coming-of-age comedy-drama film Lady Bird, which she wrote.

In 2018, following the success of Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig was part of the voice cast of Wes Anderson's stop-motion animated film Isle of Dogs, which premiered at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival to critical acclaim, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

Greta Gerwig's name was one of those featured on the outfit that actress Natalie Portman wore to the ceremony, which featured the surnames of snubbed female directors from that year's ceremony.

Greta Gerwig co-starred with Adam Driver in Baumbach's 2022 film White Noise, adapted from the novel of the same name by Don DeLillo for Netflix.

Greta Gerwig directed and co-wrote with Baumbach the fantasy comedy Barbie for Warner Bros.

Greta Gerwig worked on the screenplay for Disney's live-action film Snow White but was uncredited.

In 2024, Greta Gerwig presided over the feature film jury for the Official Competition of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, becoming the first American female director to take on the role of Jury President at Cannes Film Festival.

Greta Gerwig's films tend to be based on her own experiences.

In 2011, Greta Gerwig won an award from the Athena Film Festival for her artistry as one of Hollywood's definitive screen actresses of her generation.