Greta Gerwig

Also known as Greta Celeste Gerwig

American actress and filmmaker (born 1983)

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Greta Gerwig is an American actress and filmmaker born in 1983 who has worked in both acting and directing roles throughout her career. Her work in film has made her a notable figure in contemporary cinema.

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Greta Gerwig appears in Vinony's Time 100 collection — one of 508 entries.

Within Vinony's link graph, Greta Gerwig is referenced by 1,149 other articles, and connects out to Venice Film Festival, Sean Baker and YouTube.

It is catalogued under topics including 1983 births, 21st-century American actresses and Actresses from Sacramento, California.

Its subject is documented across 63 Wikipedia language editions.

Person · Open Library

Born: 1983-08-04
Works: 3

Top works

Maggie's Plan
Barbie
Lady Bird

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Country: US
Active from: 1983-08-04

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 237
Total plays: 852

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,658x
Metal chelate affinity chromatography, a new approach to protein fractionation
· 1975 · cited 1,715x
The CMS experiment at the CERN LHC
· 2008 · cited 1,682x
Incorporating intersectionality theory into population health research methodology: Challenges and the potential to advance health equity
· 2014 · cited 1,310x
Assessment of study quality for systematic reviews: a comparison of the Cochrane Collaboration Risk of Bias Tool and the Effective Public Health Practice Project Quality Assessment Tool: methodological research
· 2012 · cited 1,304x

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Quotes

“When you’re writing a screenplay, it’s like you’re dreaming the film for yourself again and again and again until it becomes almost like a memory before you make it...Nobody in the world cares if it doesn’t exist. You have to either believe in this fiction hard enough for it to become real, or you don’t, and it won’t.”
“When you’re 16, there are qualities you wish you didn’t have, and then when you’re 30 you’re like, ‘Thank god I have that otherwise I’d be living less vividly’. You only get one life so you might as well feel all the feelings.”
““The process of making it was just joy,” said Gerwig. “I don’t know if it was the pink or the music but it was just infectious.” Yet the most gratifying aspect, she said, was seeing strangers watch the film and realising that “the song that’s in my heart is in other people’s hearts”.”
“The kind of amazing thing is that Barbie went to the moon before women had the ability to get credit cards.”
“I always think that 8, 9, 10 years old is peak kid. I was brash and unafraid and loud and big.”
“[Puberty is] a shrinking. Wanting to make yourself smaller, less noticeable, take in all that spikiness and bury it. And you’re profoundly uncomfortable, because you’re going through metamorphosis, literally.”

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Wikidata facts

Image: Greta Gerwig at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival (cropped).jpg
Number of children: 2

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Commons category: Greta Gerwig
date of birth: 1983-08-04
start of work period: 2006-00-00
name in native language: Greta Gerwig

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Encyclopedic overview

Greta Celeste Gerwig (/ˈɡɜːrwɪɡ/ GUR-wig; born August 4, 1983) is an American actress, screenwriter, and film director. She was initially known for working on various mumblecore films, such as Baghead (2008) and Yeast (2008), in which she became an important figure in the movement. Since then she has expanded from acting in and co-writing independent films to directing major studio films. Gerwig was included in the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world in 2018.

Gerwig began her career working with Joe Swanberg on films such as Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007) and Nights and Weekends (2008). She has collaborated with her husband Noah Baumbach on several films, including Greenberg (2010) and Frances Ha (2012), for which she received a Golden Globe Award nomination, Mistress America (2015), and White Noise (2022). She also acted in such films as Whit Stillman's Damsels in Distress (2011), Woody Allen's To Rome with Love (2012), Rebecca Miller's Maggie's Plan (2015), Pablo Larraín's Jackie (2016), Mike Mills's 20th Century Women (2016), and Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs (2018).

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