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Kelli Garner
Garner in 2005
Born
Kelli Brianne Garner

(1984-04-11) April 11, 1984 (age 40)
Bakersfield, California, U.S.
OccupationActress
Years active2000–present

Kelli Brianne Garner[1] (born April 11, 1984)[2] is an American actress. Garner made her feature film debut in Larry Clark's thriller Bully (2001), followed by a supporting role as Faith Domergue in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator (2004). Over the following several years, she had lead roles in the films Thumbsucker (2005), Lars and the Real Girl (2007), and in the Disney animated film G-Force (2009).

More recent roles include the film Horns (2014) opposite Daniel Radcliffe, and the television film The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe, in which Garner portrays Monroe.[3]

Early life

Garner was born in Bakersfield, California.[2] 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.[4] While a student at Thousand Oaks High School, Garner was cast in director Mike Mills's short film Architecture of Assurance in 2000.[4] 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.[4]

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.[4] The film, which was based on the real-life 1993 murder of Bobby Kent, received critical acclaim.[5]

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.[6] 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.[7] "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."[7] The following year, she appeared in the comedy Man of the House,[8] 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.

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. 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.[4] 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 series Pan Am.

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.[3] She also appeared in the independent film When I Live My Life Over Again (2015) with Christopher Walken and Amber Heard.

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2000 Architecture of Reassurance Heather Short film
2001 Bully Heather Swallers
2002 Love Liza Huffer Girl
2002 Hometown Legend Josie
2002 Related Short film
2002 Outside The Girl
2004 The Aviator Faith Domergue
2005 The Toast Bride
2005 The Youth in Us Alicia Short film
2005 Thumbsucker Rebecca
2005 Man of the House Barbara "Barb" Thompson
2005 London Maya
2005 Piggy Banks Archer
2006 Dreamland Calista Best Actress at Method Fest
2006 Return to Rajapur Samantha Hartley/Samantha Doyle
2007 Normal Adolescent Behavior Billie
2007 Lars and the Real Girl Margo
2008 Red Velvet Linda
2009 Taking Woodstock VW girl
2009 G-Force Marcie
2010 Going the Distance Brianna
2011 The Lie Brianna
2012 Neighbors Maggie Jerritt Short film
2014 Horns Glenna Shepherd
2015 Americana Kate
2015 One More Time Corinne

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2000 Time Share Kelly, the Beach Girl Movie
2001 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Kirstie Episode: "The Body"
2001/02 Grounded for Life Tracey 2 episodes
2002 Da Möb Melanie Spores (voice) Episode: "Lo Fidelity"
2003 Regular Joe Nikki Episode: "Boobysitting"
2004 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Brittany O'Malley Episode: "Mean"
2009 American Dad! Waitress (voice) Episode: "Stan Time"
2010 My Generation Dawn Barbuso Main role (2 episodes)
2011–2012 Pan Am Catherine "Kate" Cameron Main role (14 episodes)
2013 Two Wrongs Jenny Movie
2014/15 Looking Megan Murray 2 episodes
2015 The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe Movie
2019 The Enemy Within Kate Ryan Lead role
Music videos
Year Title Role Artist
2005 "Jesus of Suburbia" Whatsername Green Day

References

  1. ^ "Kelli Garner". Ask Men. Archived from the original on December 31, 2017. Retrieved October 26, 2015. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ a b "Today's Girl: Kelli Garner". Maxim.com. July 22, 2009. Archived from the original on September 5, 2014. Retrieved 2014-08-27. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  3. ^ a b Sullivan, Kevin P. (March 26, 2015). "First look: Kelli Garner in The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved October 27, 2015.
  4. ^ a b c d e Dransfeldt, Jeffrey (January 20, 2008). "Kelli Garner of T.O. reaches for intriguing film roles". VC Star. Retrieved October 26, 2015.
  5. ^ Ebert, Roger (July 20, 2001). "Bully Movie Review". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved October 26, 2015.
  6. ^ "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.
  7. ^ a b Garner, Kelli (May 22, 2015). "Kelli Garner on The Talk". The Talk. ABC/Good Morning America. {{cite episode}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ "Green Day - Whatsername (Official Unreleased Music Video)". YouTube. June 26, 2009. Retrieved 2012-06-13.
  10. ^ "'Lars and the Real Girl' is a Whimsical Fable". New York Daily News. October 12, 2007. Retrieved October 26, 2015.
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