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Rebecca Miller

 
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  • Born: Sep 15, 1962
  • Occupation: Writer, Director, Actor
  • Active: '90s-2000s
  • Major Genres: Drama
  • Career Highlights: Proof, The Ballad of Jack & Rose, Personal Velocity: Three Portraits
  • First Major Screen Credit: Georg Elser - Einer aus Deutschland (1989)

Biography

Born two years after her father divorced Marilyn Monroe, the multi-talented Rebecca Miller is the only child of renowned playwright Arthur Miller and photographer Inge Morath. After an enviable childhood growing up in a family of artists, she studied painting at Yale before acting in theater productions on the East Coast. Following a small part in the NBC movie The Murder of Mary Phagan, she made her feature film debut with a sizable role in the West German film Georg Elser -- Einer aus Deutschland. She started her filmmaking career in 1990, making the short film Florence and directing a production of her father's play After the Fall for the New York stage. She continued acting throughout the early '90s, playing Harrison Ford's mistress in Regarding Henry, Kevin Spacey's wife in Consenting Adults, and Cliff Robertson's daughter in Wind. She played a couple of other supporting film roles (including a portrayal of commercial artist Neysa McMein in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle) before making the full-fledged turn to writing and directing. Her debut feature Angela was a lyrical drama that won a Gotham Award and got her a Filmmaker's Trophy at Sundance, but its originality proved to be unmarketable for distribution. The next year, she married actor Daniel Day-Lewis, whom she met during pre-production of Nicholas Hytner's film adaptation of her father's play The Crucible. She then had two children and published a collection of short stories called Personal Velocity on Grove Press. After being approached by the InDigEnt production company, she adapted her book for the screen by focusing on only three of the original stories. Shot in digital video on Sony cameras in the PAL format, Personal Velocity: Three Portraits won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and received a limited theatrical release. In 2004 she directed the coming-of-age drama The Ballad of Jack & Rose. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
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Rebecca Miller

Miller at premiere of The Private Lives of Pippa Lee in September 2009
Born Rebecca Augusta Miller
September 15, 1962 (1962-09-15) (age 47)
Roxbury, Connecticut
Occupation Actress, Director, Screenwriter
Years active 1988–present
Spouse(s) Daniel Day-Lewis (1996-present)

Rebecca Augusta Miller (born September 15, 1962) is an American film director, screenwriter and actress, most known for her films Personal Velocity: Three Portraits (winner of the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award), The Ballad of Jack and Rose, and Angela, all of which she wrote and directed.

Life and career

Born in Roxbury, Connecticut, she is the daughter of playwright Arthur Miller and Austrian photographer Inge Morath. She has a brother, Daniel, who was born in 1966 with Down Syndrome and was placed in an institution shortly after his birth. She studied art at Yale University and initially pursued an acting career, landing parts in the television movie The Murder of Mary Phagan and the feature films Regarding Henry (1991) and Consenting Adults (1992).

In 1995, she went behind the camera, writing and directing her first film, Angela. The film was critically well-received, but did not garner significant attention or audiences.

Miller had markedly more success with her 2002 film Personal Velocity: Three Portraits, an adaptation of Personal Velocity, a collection of short stories she had published the previous year. The independent film won her a number of awards, including the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and established her name as a director. She is the author of the 2003 book Woman Who... and director of the 2005 film The Ballad of Jack and Rose, starring her husband, actor Daniel Day-Lewis, whom she first met when he and her father were preparing the film version of the elder Miller's play The Crucible. Miller and Day-Lewis were married on November 13, 1996 and have two sons, Ronan (born 1998) and Cashel (born 2002).

Miller's latest film is 2009's The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, which she adapted from her novel of the same name.

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