Kelli Garner
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Born | Kelli Brianne Garner April 11, 1984 Bakersfield, California, U.S. |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 2000–present |
Kelli Brianne Garner[1] (born April 11, 1984)[2] is an American actress who has appeared in a variety of independent and mainstream films, television, and theater.
A native of Southern California, Garner made her feature film debut at age seventeen in Larry Clark's thriller Bully (2001), followed by a supporting role as Faith Domergue in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator (2004). In 2005, she made her New York stage debut in an Off-Broadway production titled Dog Sees God. Over the following several years, Garner had lead roles in the independent film Thumbsucker (2005), the studio comedy Man of the House (2005), and the comedy-drama Lars and the Real Girl (2007). She returned to theater in 2008, appearing in an Off-Broadway production of The Seagull opposite Dianne Wiest.
Garner subsequent had a supporting role in the Disney animated film G-Force (2009), and from 2011 to 2012, had a lead role on the short-lived period drama Pan Am, portraying a flight attendant. She later co-starred in Alexandre Aja's fantasy horror film Horns (2014) opposite Daniel Radcliffe. In 2015, Garner portrayed Marilyn Monroe in the television film The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe, opposite Susan Sarandon. She subsequently guest-starred on the series Looking (2014–2015) before starring as the lead on the NBC drama series The Enemy Within, which ran for one season in 2019. She also had a minor role in the monster film Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019).
Early life
Garner was born in Bakersfield, California,[2] and spent her early childhood in Newbury Park before her family settled in Thousand Oaks.[3] Although she described herself as a "shy" young girl, Garner caught the attention of a talent agent while attending a friend's bar mitzvah, and was subsequently cast in an Eggo commercial.[3] While a student at Thousand Oaks High School, Garner was cast in director Mike Mills's short film Architecture of Assurance in 2000.[3] Garner was a talented soccer player in high school, and had planned on pursuing it as a career before she began working as an actress.[3]
Career
Garner had appeared in several short films before being cast in a supporting role in the television film Time Share in 2000. In 2001, she was cast in Larry Clark's controversial crime thriller Bully (2001), in which she portrayed Heather Swallers, a teenager who participates with her friends in an orchestrated murder of one of their peers; Clark cast Garner in the film after seeing her performance in Mike Mills's short Architecture of Assurance.[3] The film, which was based on the real-life 1993 murder of Bobby Kent, received critical acclaim.[4]
Her next major role came at age nineteen in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator (2004), in which she portrayed actress Faith Domergue, opposite Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes.[5] According to Garner, she wore brown contact lenses to her audition in order to further embody Domergue; she has said that she tripped and fell when entering the audition room in front of director Scorsese and star DiCaprio.[6] "I thought I'd lost the job," she recalled, "But I think it was that moment that made it work [because] the character was someone who was trying to be much older than she was."[6] The following year, she appeared in the comedy Man of the House,[7] and the independent teen drama Thumbsucker (2005), opposite Lou Taylor Pucci and Vince Vaughn. She had supporting parts in the independent films London (2005) and Dreamland (2006), the latter of which earned her a Best Actress award at Method Fest Independent Film Festival, shared with co-star Agnes Bruckner.[citation needed]
In December 2005, Garner starred in the Off-Broadway production of Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead at the Century Center for the Performing Arts, co-starring with America Ferrara, Eddie Kaye Thomas, and Ari Graynor, among others.[8] She later appeared in two Green Day music videos, "Jesus of Suburbia" (with Thumbsucker co-star Lou Taylor Pucci) and the unreleased "Whatsername".[9]
In 2007, Garner appeared in a lead role in the critically acclaimed drama Lars and the Real Girl as Ryan Gosling's co-worker and love interest.[10] In 2008, she appeared again onstage in an Off-Broadway production of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull opposite Dianne Wiest, as Nina.[3] Ben Brantley of The New York Times, though critical of some elements of the production, praised Garner's performance among her younger co-stars.[11] She had a minor part in the comedy Taking Woodstock (2009), and in the Disney film G-Force (2009), which she followed with a supporting role in Going the Distance (2010), opposite Drew Barrymore. Between 2011 and 2012, she had a main role as Kate Cameron on the period series Pan Am, opposite Christina Ricci.[12]
Garner was next cast in Alexandre Aja's horror-fantasy Horns (2014) with Daniel Radcliffe, and played the title role in the Lifetime mini-series The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe, opposite Susan Sarandon as her mother.[13]She also appeared in the independent film One More Time (2015) with Christopher Walken and Amber Heard. Between 2014 and 2015, she had a guest-starring role on the gay-themed series Looking, playing the sister of the lead character, Patrick Murray.[14] In 2019, Garner had a supporting part in the action film Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and also starred as a lead opposite Jennifer Carpenter and Morris Chestnut on the series The Enemy Within.[12]
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Director(s) | Notes | Ref. |
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2000 | Architecture of Reassurance | Heather | Mike Mills | Short film | [3] |
2000 | Time Share | Kelly, the Beach Girl | Sharon von Wietersheim | Television film | [15] |
2001 | Bully | Heather Swallers | Larry Clark | [14] | |
2002 | Love Liza | Huffer Girl | Todd Louiso | ||
2002 | Hometown Legend | Josie | James Anderson | [15] | |
2002 | Related | Joanie Wread | Short film | ||
2002 | Outside | The Girl | Jeff Mahler | ||
2004 | The Aviator | Faith Domergue | Martin Scorsese | [14] | |
2005 | The Toast | Bride | Kevin McDermott | ||
2005 | The Youth in Us | Alicia | Joshua Leonard | Short film | |
2005 | Thumbsucker | Rebecca | Mike Mills | [14] | |
2005 | Man of the House | Barbara "Barb" Thompson | Stephen Herek | [14] | |
2005 | London | Maya | Hunter Richards | [14] | |
2005 | Piggy Banks | Archer | Morgan J. Freeman | Also known as: Born Killers | [15] |
2006 | Dreamland | Calista | Jason Matzner | [16] | |
2006 | Return to Rajapur | Samantha Hartley/Samantha Doyle | Nanda Anand | [15] | |
2007 | Normal Adolescent Behavior | Billie | Beth Schacter | [14] | |
2007 | Lars and the Real Girl | Margo | Craig Gillespie | [14] | |
2008 | Red Velvet | Linda | Bruce Dickson | ||
2009 | Taking Woodstock | VW girl | Ang Lee | [14] | |
2009 | G-Force | Marcie | Hoyt Yeatman | [14] | |
2010 | Going the Distance | Brianna | Nanette Burstein | [14] | |
2011 | The Lie | Brianna | Joshua Leonard | [14] | |
2012 | Neighbors | Maggie Jerritt | Rachel Goldberg | Short film | |
2013 | Two Wrongs | Jenny | David Katzenberg | Television film | |
2014 | Horns | Glenna Shepherd | Alexandre Aja | [14] | |
2015 | Americana | Kate | Zachary Shedd | [15] | |
2015 | One More Time | Corinne | Robert Edwards | ||
2015 | The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe | Marilyn Monroe | Laurie Collyer | Television film | [14] |
2019 | Godzilla: King of the Monsters | USS Argo Officer Cross | Michael Dougherty |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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2001 | Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Kirstie | Episode: "The Body" | |
2001–2002 | Grounded for Life | Tracey | 2 episodes | [14] |
2002 | Da Möb | Melanie Spores (voice) | Episode: "Lo Fidelity" | |
2003 | Regular Joe | Nikki | Episode: "Boobysitting" | [14] |
2004 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Brittany O'Malley | Episode: "Mean" | [14] |
2009 | American Dad! | Waitress (voice) | Episode: "Stan Time" | |
2010 | My Generation | Dawn Barbuso | 8 episodes | [14] |
2011–2012 | Pan Am | Catherine "Kate" Cameron | 14 episodes | [14] |
2014–2015 | Looking | Megan Murray | 2 episodes | [14] |
2019 | The Enemy Within | Kate Ryan | 15 episodes | [14] |
Music videos
Year | Title | Role | Artist |
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2005 | "Jesus of Suburbia" | Whatsername | Green Day |
2019 | "I Don't Want To Be Your Love" | Whatsername | Joseph Shabason |
Stage credits
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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2005 | Dog Sees God | Tricia | Century Center, New York City | [8] |
2008 | The Seagull | Nina | East 13th Street Theater, New York City | [11] |
References
- ^ "Kelli Garner". Ask Men. Archived from the original on September 14, 2016. Retrieved October 26, 2015.
- ^ a b "Today's Girl: Kelli Garner". Maxim.com. July 22, 2009. Archived from the original on September 5, 2014. Retrieved August 27, 2014.
- ^ a b c d e f g Dransfeldt, Jeffrey (January 20, 2008). "Kelli Garner of T.O. reaches for intriguing film roles". Ventura County Star. Archived from the original on September 9, 2019. Retrieved October 27, 2015.
- ^ Ebert, Roger (July 20, 2001). "Bully Movie Review". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved October 26, 2015.
- ^ "Lifetime Casts 'Pan Am,' 'The Aviator' Actress Kelli Garner As Marilyn Monroe In Upcoming Miniseries". Beauty World News. October 28, 2014. Retrieved October 26, 2015.
- ^ a b Garner, Kelli (May 22, 2015). "Kelli Garner on The Talk". The Talk. ABC/Good Morning America.
- ^ Willis, John; Monush, Barry (November 13, 2006). Screen World Film Annual. Hal Leonard Corporation. pp. 190ff. ISBN 978-1-55783-706-6. Retrieved August 24, 2011.
- ^ a b Hernandez, Ernio (November 1, 2005). "Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead's Starry Cast Complete". Playbill. Retrieved September 9, 2019.
- ^ "Green Day - Whatsername (Official Unreleased Music Video)". YouTube. June 26, 2009. Retrieved June 13, 2012.
- ^ "'Lars and the Real Girl' is a Whimsical Fable". New York Daily News. October 12, 2007. Retrieved October 26, 2015.
- ^ a b Brantley, Ben (March 14, 2008). "On a Russian Estate, Dormant Passions, Art and Self- Consciousness". The New York Times. Archived from the original on June 8, 2016.
- ^ a b Petski, Denise (August 1, 2019). "Kelli Garner Signs With More/Medavoy For Management". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on September 9, 2019. Retrieved September 9, 2019.
- ^ Sullivan, Kevin P. (March 26, 2015). "First look: Kelli Garner in The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved September 9, 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u "Kelli Garner Credits". TV Guide. Retrieved September 9, 2019.
- ^ a b c d e "Kelli Garner Filmography". AllMovie. Retrieved September 9, 2019.
- ^ "Unscripted: Dreamland - Kelli Garner & Justin Long - Full Interview". AOL. 2006. Retrieved September 9, 2019.
External links
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- Kelli Garner at IMDb