Greta Celeste Gerwig (born August 4, 1983) is an American actress and filmmaker. She first garnered attention after working on and appearing in several mumblecore films. Including Joe Swanberg’s Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007), with Kent Osborne, Andrew Bujalski, Ry Russo-Young, and Mark Duplass; Jay & Mark Duplass’s Baghead (2008), with Ross Partridge, Elise Muller, and Steve Zissis; Nights and Weekends (2008), the latter she also co-wrote and co-directed with Swanberg.
Since the early 2010s, Gerwig has collaborated with her partner Noah Baumbach on several films, including Greenberg (2010), with Ben Stiller, Rhys Ifans, Brie Larson and Jennifer Jason Leigh; Frances Ha (2012), with Mickey Sumner and Adam Driver – for which she received a Golden Globe Award nomination; Mistress America (2015), with Lola Kirke; and White Noise (2022), with Driver and Don Cheadle.
Other acting credits include Tie West’s The House of the Devil (2009), with Jocelin Donahue, Tom Noonan, Mary Woronov, A.J. Bowen, and Dee Wallace; Ivan Reitman’s No Strings Attached (2011), with Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Cary Elwes, Kevin Kline, Lake Bell, Olivia Thirlby, Jake Johnson, and Mindy Kaling; Whit Stillman’s Damsels in Distress (2011), with Adam Brody, Analeigh Tipton, Alia Shawkat, and Aubrey Plaza; Arthur (2011), with Russell Brand, Helen Mirren, Jennifer Garner, and Nick Nolte; Daryl Wein’s Lola Versus (2012), with Joel Kinnaman, Zoey Lister-Jones, Bill Pullman, and Debra Winger; Woody Allen‘s To Rome with Love (2012), with Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Penélope Cruz, Judy Davis, Jesse Eisenberg, and Elliot Page; Barry Levinson’s The Humbling (2014), with Al Pacino, Dianne Wiest, Nina Arianda, Dylan Baker, Charles Grodin, Dan Hedaya, Billy Porter, Kyra Sedgwick, and Mary Louise Wilson; Rebecca Miller‘s Maggie’s Plan (2015), with Ethan Hawke, Bill Hader, Maya Rudolph, Travis Fimmel, Wallace Shawn, and Julianne Moore; Todd Solondz‘s Weiner-Dog (2016), with Ellen Burstyn, Kieran Culkin, Julie Delpy, Danny DeVito, Tracy Letts, and Zosia Mamet; Pablo Larraín’s Jackie (2016), with Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Billy Crudup, and John Hurt; and Mike Mills’ 20th Century Women (2016), with Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Lucas Jade Zumann, and Crudup.
She also did voice work Wes Anderson‘s stop-motion film Isle of Dogs (2018), with Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber, Bill Murray, Bob Balaban, Jeff Goldblum, Scarlett Johansson, Kunichi Nomura, Tilda Swinton, Ken Watanabe, Akira Ito, Akira Takayama, Frances McDormand, F. Murray Abraham, Courtney B. Vance, Yojiro Noda, Fisher Stevens, Mari Natsuki, Nijiro Murakami, Yoko Ono, Harvey Keitel, and Frank Wood.
Gerwig’s solo directorial ventures include the coming-of-age films Lady Bird (2017), with Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Letts, Lucas Hedges, Timothée Chalamet, Beanie Feldstein, Stephen McKinley Henderson, and Lois Smith; and Little Women (2019), with Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen, Laura Dern, Timothée Chalamet, Meryl Streep, Letts, Bob Odenkirk, James Norton, Louis Garrel, and Chris Cooper; and Barbie (2023), with Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera, Kate McKinnon, Michael Cera, Ariana Greenblatt, Issa Rae, Rhea Perlman, Mirren, and Will Ferrell.
Lady Bird (2017) and Little Women (2019) both of earned Academy Award nominations for Best Picture. For the former, Gerwig received Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, and for the latter, she was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Each review will be linked to the title below.
(*seen originally in theaters)
(**seen rereleased in theaters)
Director/Writer
- Nights and Weekends (2008) – co-wrote & co-directed with Joe Swanberg – also actress
- Ladybird (2017)* – director, writer
- Little Women (2019) – director, writer
- Barbie (2023)* – director, co-writer
- Snow White (2024) – directed by Marc Webb – co-writer
Actress
- LOL (2007) – directed by Joe Swanberg
- Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007) – directed by Joe Swanberg – also co-writer
- Baghead (2008) – directed by Mark & Jay Duplass
- Yeast (2008) – directed by Mary Bronstein
- Quick Feet, Soft Hands (2008) – directed by Paul Harrin – short
- I Thought You Finally Completely Lost It (2008) – directed by Rod Webber
- You Wont Miss Me (2009) – directed by Ry Russo-Young
- The House of the Devil (2009) – directed by Ti West
- Greenberg (2010) – directed by Noah Baumbach
- Art House (2010) – directed by Victor Fanucchi
- Northern Comfort (2010) – directed by Rod Webber – also co-writer
- The Dish & the Spoon (2010) – directed by Alison Bagnall
- No Strings Attached (2011) – directed by Ivan Reitman
- Damsels in Distress (2011) – directed by Whit Stillman
- Arthur (2011) – directed by Jason Winer
- Lola Versus (2012) – directed by Daryl Wein
- To Rome with Love (2012) – directed by Woody Allen
- Frances Ha (2012) – Noah Baumbach – also co-writer
- Eden (2014) – directed by Mia Hansen-Løve
- The Humbling (2014) – directed by Barry Levinson
- Mistress America (2015) – directed by Noah Baumbach – also co-writer
- Maggie’s Plan (2015) – directed by Rebecca Miller
- Wiener-Dog (2016) – directed by Todd Solondz
- Jackie (2016) – directed by Pablo Larraín
- 20th Century Women (2016) – directed by Mike Mills
- The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017) – directed by Noah Baumbach – uncredited voice
- Isle of Dogs (2018)* – directed by Wes Anderson
- White Noise (2022) – directed by Noah Bombach
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