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name: "Rebecca Miller"
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tmdb_id: 41670
wikidata_id: "Q508184"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "15 September 1962"
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average_as: "director"
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licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Rebecca Miller

## Identity

Rebecca Miller

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/rebecca-miller
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** rebecca-miller
- **IMDb ID:** nm0589182
- **TMDB ID:** 41670
- **Wikidata ID:** Q508184
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Miller, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q508184, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0589182/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/41670

Director. Born 15 September 1962 in Roxbury, Connecticut, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 15 September 1962, Roxbury, Connecticut, USA
- **Also known as:** Rebecca Augusta Miller
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Miller, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q508184, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0589182/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/41670

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*The Ballad of Jack and Rose*](https://film.one/film/the-ballad-of-jack-and-rose.md) (54)

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## Fi1m on Rebecca Miller

> Rebecca Miller writes her own films, mostly about women at a turning point, and she trusts her actors. She trusts her audience less: she has a habit of telling us what the picture means, and her films are better when she leaves things alone.

Near the end of *The Ballad of Jack and Rose* (2005) somebody says aloud, in plain dialogue, what the previous hour had already shown. The poster had done the same, with a tagline about selfhood and letting go that is the whole film in one sentence. This is Rebecca Miller's habit. She has a subject worth having, a father whose principles have become his property, and the right actor in Daniel Day-Lewis to play him, and she does not quite believe we will understand without help. We had been on the film's side until that closing passage, and then we were embarrassed for it, which is a worse feeling than being bored.

She came to film from painting and sculpture, by way of acting, and every feature has been her own script: *Angela* (1995), *Personal Velocity: Three Portraits* (2002), *The Ballad of Jack and Rose*, *The Private Lives of Pippa Lee* (2009), *Maggie's Plan* (2015) and *She Came to Me* (2023). The subject is nearly always a woman at a turning point, and twice the material came from her own prose, since *Personal Velocity* and *Pippa Lee* were adapted from her books. She has said she makes her films in twos, and the list does fall into pairs: two wistful dramas, two films that move in and out of the past with voiceover, two attempts at romantic comedy. Between them she wrote *Proof* (2005) for John Madden, and lately she has turned to documentary with *Arthur Miller: Writer* (2017) and the five-part *Mr. Scorsese* (2025).

What works is the faith she puts in actors and the willingness to try a new shape each time: three short stories made cheaply and quickly in *Personal Velocity*, which was good at leaving things alone; a large ensemble and a broken timeline in *Pippa Lee*. She has kept the same cinematographer, Ellen Kuras, for three films and the same editor, Sabine Hoffman, for three, which suggests someone who knows what she wants and holds on to the people who give it to her. What does not work is the underlining. On the island, every object in the second half comes to stand for something and the film makes sure we have noticed, and Jack's speeches turn from character into lecture. The comedies have been found slight by the reviews so far, and the last of them was accused of not being funny, which for a romantic comedy is the one charge that counts.

If you are new to her, start with *Personal Velocity*, and give *The Ballad of Jack and Rose* an evening for Day-Lewis and for its first hour, with patience for what follows. If she really does work in twos, the Scorsese series closes a pair and the next fiction film opens one. We would like it to be the kind that stops talking before the audience has to.

## Biography

Rebecca Miller is an American filmmaker, screenwriter and novelist. Born on 15 September 1962 in Roxbury, Connecticut, she is the daughter of playwright Arthur Miller and photographer Inge Morath. She studied at Yale University.

Miller wrote and directed the films *Angela* (1995), *Personal Velocity: Three Portraits* (2002), *The Ballad of Jack and Rose* (2005), *The Private Lives of Pippa Lee* (2009), *Maggie's Plan* (2015) and *She Came to Me* (2023). She has also written the novels *The Private Lives of Pippa Lee* and *Jacob's Folly*. She received the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for *Personal Velocity* and the Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Director for *Angela*. She has been married to actor Daniel Day-Lewis since 1996.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, metacritic.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Ballad of Jack and Rose* (2005), Fi1m 54, Director, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-ballad-of-jack-and-rose.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Mr. Scorsese* (2025), series, Director, Executive Producer
- *She Came to Me* (2023), Director, Producer, Writer
- *Saturday Church* (2018), Producer
- *Arthur Miller: Writer* (2017), Producer, Director
- *The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)* (2017), as Loretta Shapiro
- *Maggie's Plan* (2016), Director, Writer, Producer
- *The Private Lives of Pippa Lee* (2009), Director, Screenplay, Novel
- *Proof* (2005), Screenplay
- *The Ballad of Jack and Rose* (2005), Director, Writer — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/the-ballad-of-jack-and-rose.md)
- *Stan Ridgway's Holiday In Dirt* (2005), Thanks
- *Personal Velocity* (2002), Director, Writer, Book
- *Angela* (1996), Writer, Director
- *Love Affair* (1994), as Receptionist
- *Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle* (1994), as Neysa McMein
- *The Pickle* (1993), as Carrie
- *The American Clock* (1993), Actor
- *Consenting Adults* (1992), as Kay Otis
- *Wind* (1992), as Abigail Weld
- *Regarding Henry* (1991), as Linda
- *Seven Minutes* (1989), as Anneliese
- *The Murder of Mary Phagan* (1988), series, as Lucille Frank
- *Moonsong: A Life In Seven Verses*, Director, Screenplay

## Gallery

- ![Rebecca Miller](https://film.one/media/person/5525106/gallery-5b0968c03cd9.jpg) Rebecca Miller — Elena Ternovaja, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Rebecca_Miller_at_Berlinale_2023.jpg/1280px-Rebecca_Miller_at_Berlinale_2023.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Director Rebecca Miller at the Berlin Film Festival 2023](https://film.one/media/person/5525106/gallery-4ea7c312ccde.jpg) Director Rebecca Miller at the Berlin Film Festival 2023 — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Rebecca_Miller-68806.jpg/1280px-Rebecca_Miller-68806.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Rebecca Miller at Berlinale 2023](https://film.one/media/person/5525106/gallery-535464529856.jpg) Rebecca Miller at Berlinale 2023 — Elena Ternovaja, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Rebecca_Miller_at_Berlinale_2023_-2.jpg/1280px-Rebecca_Miller_at_Berlinale_2023_-2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Rebecca Miller at the premiere of The Private Lives of Pippa Lee at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/5525106/gallery-21e565855c3d.jpg) Rebecca Miller at the premiere of The Private Lives of Pippa Lee at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival — Ryan Coleman  (Please credit Ryan Coleman | photography.ryancoleman.ca), CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Rebecca_Miller_at_TIFF_2009.jpg/1280px-Rebecca_Miller_at_TIFF_2009.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Rebecca Miller, filmmaker and spouse of acclaimed actor Daniel Day-Lewis, arrives at the premiere of her new film, "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee", during the  (2009)](https://film.one/media/person/5525106/gallery-b4b290c152bb.jpg) Rebecca Miller, filmmaker and spouse of acclaimed actor Daniel Day-Lewis, arrives at the premiere of her new film, "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee", during the  (2009) — Josh Jensen from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Flickr_-_Josh_Jensen_-_Rebecca_Miller.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Photo by: Alex Barnett (2025)](https://film.one/media/person/5525106/gallery-178af79710a0.jpg) Photo by: Alex Barnett (2025) — Montclair Film, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/MFF25_Scorsese1_Alex_%2854866159084%29.jpg/1280px-MFF25_Scorsese1_Alex_%2854866159084%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 2 won

- Independent Spirit Awards 2003: Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award (won), for *Personal Velocity: Three Portraits*
- Open Palm Award 1995: Open Palm Award (won), for *Angela*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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