Brit Heyworth Marling (born August 7, 1982) is an American writer, producer, director, and actress. After majoring in economics at Georgetown University, Brit moved to Los Angeles with friends Mike Cahil and Zal Batmanglij to pursue screenplay writing and acting. Marling was born in Chicago, Illinois. She was named "Brit" after her Norwegian maternal great-grandmother. She graduated from Georgetown University in 2005 with degrees in economics and studio art, and was her class Valedictorian. Following graduation from Georgetown, Marling spent a summer interning for the investing banking firm Goldman Sachs. She later turned down a job offer from the firm, opting instead to move to Cuba with friend and director Mike Cahill to film the documentary Boxers and Ballerinas. It was for this documentary that Marling first gained recognition in 2004; having co-written the film with Mike Cahill and Nicholas Shumaker and co-directed with Mike Cahill. Marling also co-wrote, co-produced, and acted in the 2011 films Sound of My Voice and Another Earth. Both of these films were featured at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, with Another Earth winning the Alfred P. Sloan Prize for outstanding film with science, technology or math as a major theme. In 2012, she played Richard Gere's daughter in Arbitrage. In 2013, she collaborated with Sundance once again on her lead role in The East alongside Elliot Page and Alexander Skarsgård.

Filmography

• Star Trek: Starfleet Academy — USS Athena Computer (voice)
• A Murder at the End of the World — Lee Andersen, Director, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator
• 2022On the Line: The Richard Williams Story — Producer
• The OA — Prairie Johnson, OA / Nina Azarova, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator
• Babylon — Liz Garvey
• 2014I Origins — Karen
• 2014Posthumous — McKenzie Grain
• 2014The Better Angels — Nancy Lincoln
• 2014The Keeping Room — Augusta
• 2013The East — Sarah, Writer, Producer
• 2012Arbitrage — Brooke Miller
• 2012The Company You Keep — Rebecca Osborne
• 2011Another Earth — Rhoda Williams, Producer, Writer
• 2011Sound of My Voice — Maggie, Writer, Producer
• Community — Page
• 2009Political Disasters — Brit
• 2007Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out — Co-Producer
• 2007The Recordist — Charlie Hall
• 2006Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man — Director of Photography
• 2004Boxers and Ballerinas — Director, Writer, Cinematography, Editor
• Uncanny Valley — Writer

Appearances as themselves (6)

• 2019This Changes Everything — Self
• Off Camera with Sam Jones — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self
• Variety Studio: Actors on Actors — Self
• The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson — Self
• Real Time with Bill Maher — Self