Greta Gerwig
Actor, Director, Writer
Greta Celeste Gerwig is an American actress, screenwriter, and director. She first garnered attention after working on and appearing in several mumblecore films. She has since transitioned her career from acting and co-writing independent films to directing films from major studios. As a solo filmmaker, Gerwig has written and directed the coming-of-age films Lady Bird (2017) and Little Women (2019), both of which earned nominations for the Academy Award for Best Picture. For the former, she received Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay,[8] and for the latter, she was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay. Her next directorial feature, the fantasy comedy Barbie (2023), which she co-wrote with Baumbach, became the first film from a solo female director to gross over $1 billion worldwide.