28 Facts About Rebecca Miller

Rebecca Augusta Miller was born on September 15,1962 and is an American filmmaker and novelist.

Rebecca Miller is known for her films Angela, Personal Velocity: Three Portraits, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, Maggie's Plan and Rebecca Miller Came to Me, all of which she wrote and directed, as well as her novels The Private Lives of Pippa Lee and Jacob's Folly.

Rebecca Miller is the daughter of Arthur Rebecca Miller, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, and his third wife, Inge Morath, a Magnum photographer.

Rebecca Miller was born in Roxbury, Connecticut, to Arthur Rebecca Miller, the dramatist, and Austrian-born Inge Morath, a photographer.

Rebecca Miller's father was Jewish, whereas her mother was Protestant.

Rebecca Miller has said that she stopped thinking of herself as a Christian "somewhere at the end of college".

Rebecca Miller remembered her childhood in Roxbury as being surrounded by artists.

Rebecca Miller created wooden panel triptychs she described as hybrids of pictographic forms inspired, for example, by Paul Klee and a 15th-century altarpiece.

In 1987, Rebecca Miller took up residence in New York City, and she showed painting and sculpture at Leo Castelli Gallery, Victoria Munroe Gallery, and in Connecticut.

In 1988, Rebecca Miller was cast in the role of Anya in the Peter Brook's adaptation of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, her first stage role.

Rebecca Miller originated the part of Lili in The American Plan.

Rebecca Miller began her acting career with directors Alan Pakula, Paul Mazursky, and Mike Nichols.

Rebecca Miller played the female lead in NBC's television movie The Murder of Mary Phagan, and supporting roles in feature films, including Regarding Henry, Consenting Adults, and Wind.

In 1991, Rebecca Miller wrote and directed a short film Florence, starring actress Marcia Gay Harden, about a precociously empathetic woman who acquires the symptoms from others; eventually "catching" a neighbor's amnesia, she forgets her own identity.

Florence caught the attention of Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati, and Rebecca Miller was invited to direct a revival of Arthur Rebecca Miller's After the Fall.

Rebecca Miller directed Nicole Burdette's play The Bluebird Special Came Through Here.

Rebecca Miller is a novelist, director, independent filmmaker, and advocate of women in the film industry.

Rebecca Miller was featured in the 2003 IFC Films documentary In The Company of Women, directed by Lesli Klainberg and Gini Reticker.

Rebecca Miller wrote and directed her first film, Angela, in 1995.

Rebecca Miller adapted three short stories into a screenplay of three different, although thematically unified short films, which Miller then directed.

Rebecca Miller wrote the screenplay for the 2005 film adaptation of David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Proof.

Also in 2005, Rebecca Miller directed her film, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, which stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Camilla Belle and Catherine Keener.

In 2009, Rebecca Miller released her fourth film, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, an adaptation of her 2002 novel by the same name.

Rebecca Miller directed a star-studded cast which includes Robin Wright, Alan Arkin, Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder and Julianne Moore.

At the Kerry Film Festival in 2009, Rebecca Miller was honored with the Maureen O'Hara Award, in recognition for her achievements in film.

Rebecca Miller wrote a screenplay neo-screwball comedy called Maggie's Plan, based upon an original story by Karen Rinaldi.

Rebecca Miller directed the film, shot primarily in Greenwich Village, in 2015.

Rebecca Miller first met her spouse, actor Daniel Day-Lewis, at a screening of the film adaptation of her father's play The Crucible.