Writer/Producer/Actor (“Maggie”), Sound of My Voice
Nominated for: Best First Feature

Brit Marling is a rising actress, writer and producer, whose emerging talent made an indelible mark at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival as the first female multi-hyphenate to have two films premiere side by side. Upcoming, Marling can also be seen in Nicholas Jarecki’s financial thriller Arbitrage, starring opposite Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon and Laetitia Casta. The film follows a desperate hedge fund magnate (Gere), trying to complete the sale of his financial empire before it’s revealed that he is guilty of fraud. A grave error forces him to turn to an unlikely ally for help. The film premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. Marling is currently in post-production in Fox Searchlight’s The East.

Prior to that, Marling wrapped production on The Company You Keep, directed and co-produced by Robert Redford. The thriller, also featuring Redford, Shia LaBeouf and Stanley Tucci, centers on a former Weather Underground activist who goes on the run from a journalist who has discovered his identity.

Marling’s first feature-length narrative film, Another Earth, premiered at Sundance in the U.S. Dramatic Competition category. Directed by Mike Cahill, Marling stars, co-wrote and co-produced the film. Another Earth tells the story of ambitious young student, Rhoda Williams (Marling). On the night of the world’s discovery of a new planet, her life crosses paths with an accomplished composer, John Burroughs (William Mapother) in a tragic accident. Stripped of their former lives and hopes, the two begin an unlikely love affair and contemplate possibilities for a new existence together. But as cosmic events unfold, the secret that brought them together threatens to tear them apart.

Marling’s foray into filmmaking started during her college years at Georgetown University, as she began writing and starring in projects that her friends were working on. This introduction led Marling to take a leave of absence from school, moving to Havana, Cuba to co-direct the documentary Boxers and Ballerinas, which followed young artists and athletes living in the communist country. Marling was the class valedictorian at Georgetown, having studied Economics and Studio Art. Her work experience included a stint as an investment-banking analyst at Goldman Sachs. Realizing that acting and filmmaking was what she found most fulfilling, Marling followed her passion and moved to Los Angeles, where she currently resides.