Marielle Heller
American director, writer and actress
Marielle Stiles Heller (born October 1, 1979) is an American writer, director, and actor. She is best known for writing and directing the comedy-drama film The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015), and directing the biographical drama film Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018). In 2019, she directed the Fred Rogers drama film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.
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edit- I've always been fairly confident in what I feel and think. And part of that I think is coming from the Bay Area, where, you know, being an individual was very celebrated. Our culture of the Bay Area is a place where you want to be different. You want to be seen. You want to be heard. You want—there, conformity is the worst thing that you could aspire to.
- On why it is not difficult for her to believe in her own point of view
- Gross, Terry (November 29, 2019). 'Beautiful Day' Director On Mister Rogers' 'Radical Notion': Telling Kids The Truth (in en). NPR. Retrieved on 30 November 2019.
