Julia Garner
Julia Garner (born February 1, 1994[1]) is an American actress. She is best known for her starring role as Ruth Langmore in the Netflix crime drama series Ozark (2017–2022), for which she received critical acclaim and won three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress.[2]
Julia Garner
Garner also had roles in the FX drama series The Americans (2015–2018), the Netflix miniseries Maniac (2018), and the Bravo true crime series Dirty John (2018–2019). In 2022, she portrayed Anna Sorokin in the Netflix miniseries Inventing Anna, for which she received nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress.
In film, Garner has appeared in Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011), The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012), and Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014). She also had lead roles in the films Grandma (2015), The Assistant (2019), and The Royal Hotel (2023).
Early life[edit]
Garner was born in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx, New York.[3] Her mother Tami Gingold is a therapist who had a successful career as an actress and comedian in Israel. Her father Thomas Garner is a painter and an art teacher, originally from Shaker Heights, Ohio.[4] Garner is half Jewish as is her mother.[5][6] Her older sister is artist Anna Garner.[1][7] She understands modern Hebrew because her mother speaks it, but is not fluent in speaking it herself.[8][9]
Garner attended Eagle Hill School in Greenwich, Connecticut.[10] She began taking acting lessons at age 15 to overcome her shyness.[11]
Personal life[edit]
Garner married singer Mark Foster, lead vocalist of Foster the People, in a December 2019 ceremony at New York City Hall,[27][28] eight months after they got engaged.[29]