Mariel Heller is an American writer, actress, and director, known for directing films such as The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015), Can You Ever Forgive Me (2015). (2018), and A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019). In 2020, she rose to stardom with Netflix’s ‘The Queen’s Gambit’, in which she played Alma Wheatley. She is also the founder of ‘Defiant by Nature’, a production company.
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Wiki/Biography
Mariel Heller was born on Monday, October 1, 1979 (age 41 years; as in 2020) in Marin County, California, United States. He did his schooling from St. Joseph Notre Dame High School in Alameda, California. She is a former member of Alameda Children’s Musicals, a performing arts theater in Alameda, where she performed in various plays such as Winnie the Pooh, Charlotte’s Web, and The Magician’s Nephew during her childhood days. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). After this, he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London for a year. After returning to California, he worked as a screenwriter. He also took a six-week crash course in film directing at the Sundance Institute Directors & Screenwriters Labs, Utah.
Physical Appearance
Height (Approx): 5′ 6″
Hair Colour: Light Golden Brown
Eye colour: black
Family and ethnicity
Although Mariel Heller’s father is from a Jewish family, neither she nor her husband are Jewish.
parents and siblings
Mariel Heller’s father, Steve Heller, is a chiropractor, and her mother, Anne Stiles-Heller, is an artist and art teacher.
Mariel Heller with her parents
He has two siblings, a brother, Nate Heller who is a musician and composer, and a sister, Emily Heller, a stand-up comedian and writer.
Mariel Heller with her siblings
Relationships, Husband and Children
In 2007, Mariel Heller married Jorma Taccone, an American comedian, director, actor and writer. Both of them first met in 1999 while studying at UCLA. His son’s name is Wylie Red Heller Taccone. In 2020, she gave birth to her second child.
Mariel Heller with her husband and son
livelihood
as a director
After graduating from the University of California, she spent eight years working as an actress. In 2015, Marilee Heller made her directorial debut with the critically acclaimed film The Diary of a Teenage Girl, which was recognized as Best Debut Feature at the Independent Spirit Awards (2016).
In 2018, he directed his second film Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger, which proved to be a breakout hit at the Telluride Film Festival. The film was based on the memoir of scam artist Lee Israel, a celebrity biographer who fell on hard times and began forging letters of famous deceased celebrities such as Noël Coward, Dorothy Parker, and Lillian Hellman. In 2019, he directed the film ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’.
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)
as an actress
Mariel Heller made her television debut with a cameo role as one of the party people in White Power (2001). Subsequently, she appeared in various shows like Spin City (2002), All-for-Knots (2008), Single Dads (2009), etc. In 2010, Mariel Heller made her film debut with MacGruber, playing the role of Clocky. , Later, she appeared in various films such as A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014), Paper Anchor (2016), Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016), etc. In 2020, Marielle Heller made her digital debut with Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit. In which she played the breakout role of Alma Wheatley.
Awards/Honors
- Won the International Feature Film Award at the Zurich Film Festival (2015) for the film The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015).
- Won the Best International Feature Film Award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival (2015) for the film The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015).
- Won the Best New Filmmaker Award at the Boston Society of Film Critics Awards (2015) for the film The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015).
- Won the Independent Spirit Award at the Film Independent Spirit Awards (2016) for the film The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015).
Independent Spirit Award (2016)
- Won the Best Director Award at the Fest International Film Festival (2016) for the film The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015).
- Won Best Feature Film at the Winnipeg Real to Reel Film Festival (2020) for the film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019).
Facts/General Knowledge
- In 2006, Mariel Heller’s sister gave her a copy of the book ‘Diary of a Teenage Girl’ as a Christmas gift. Charmed by novelist Phoebe Glockner’s portrayal of raw emotion in Diary of a Teenage Girl, Heller was determined to acquire the stage rights to it. In 2010, after gaining stage rights, Heller produced an off-Broadway multimedia show starring the lead role of Minnie, a 15-year-old girl who begins an affair with her mother’s 35-year-old boyfriend. The play ‘Diary of a Teenage Girl’ was staged at the 3LD Art and Technology Center in Manhattan. Later, it took four years to adapt it into a film, for which Heller took a six-week crash course in film direction at the Sundance Institute Directors and Screenwriters Labs in Utah.
- Marielle Heller also has several writing credits including the Disney film Renegade X, the ABC pilot ‘The Big Apple’.
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