Biography
Brit Marling is an American actress and screenwriter. She was born on 7 August 1982 in Chicago, Illinois, and graduated from Georgetown University in 2005 with degrees in economics and studio art, serving as her class valedictorian.
Marling rose to prominence after co-writing and starring in the independent films Sound of My Voice (2011) and Another Earth (2011), both of which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. She collaborated again with director Zal Batmanglij on The East (2013). She co-created, wrote and starred in the Netflix series The OA (2016–2019) and the miniseries A Murder at the End of the World (2023).
In 2026 she voiced the USS Athena computer in the series Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.
