Julia Garner Trivia | 35 facts about the actress

Julia Garner is an American actress, who is best known for her starring role as Ruth Langmore in the Netflix crime drama series Ozark.

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1. Julia Garner was born on February 1, 1994.
2. Her sodiac sign is Aquarius.
3. She’s an American actress.
4. Garner was born in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx, New York.
5. Her mother Tami Gingold is a therapist who had a successful career as an actress and comedian in her native Israel.
6. Her father Thomas Garner is a painter and an art teacher, originally from Shaker Heights, Ohio.
7. Julia Garner is Jewish as is her mother.
8. Her older sister is artist Anna Garner.
9. She understands modern Hebrew because her mother speaks it, but is not fluent in speaking it herself.
10. Garner attended Eagle Hill School in Greenwich, Connecticut.
11. She began taking acting lessons at age 15 to overcome her shyness.
12. She is best known for her starring role as Ruth Langmore in the Netflix crime drama series Ozark (2017–2022).
13. For her role in Ozark she received critical acclaim and won three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2019, 2020, and 2022, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2023.
14. Garner also had roles in the FX drama series The Americans (2015–2018), the Netflix miniseries Maniac (2018), the Bravo true crime series Dirty John (2018–2019).
15. In 2022, she portrayed Anna Sorokin in the Netflix miniseries Inventing Anna, for which she received nominations for another Primetime Emmy Award and Golden Globe for Best Actress.
16. In films, she has starred in Grandma (2015), and The Assistant (2019).
17. She also appeared in Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011), The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012), and Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)
18. At 15, she started taking acting classes as a hobby to help overcome her ‘shyness’.
19. Born and raised in New York. Her father, Thomas Garner, is an art teacher, originally from Ohio. Her mother, Tami Gingold, who is originally from Israel, is a therapist who was ‘a famous comedian in Israel 30 years ago’.
20. Says she’s fascinated by the legendary Bette Davis, especially her performance in What Happened To Baby Jane? (1962).
21. Her mother, Tami Gingold, was a therapist and led a successful comedy career in Israel. Her father, Thomas Garner, was a painter and art teacher. Her sister, Anna, is a writer, artist, and producer.
22. Her favorite actress is Bette Davis.
23. She began taking acting lessons at the age of fifteen to overcome shyness. By the time she was seventeen, she had made her theatrical debut in the 2011 film Martha Marcy May Marlene.
24. Garner married singer Mark Foster, lead vocalist of Foster the People, in a December 2019.
25. Counts fellow actress Juno Temple as a close friend.
26. She earned her first starring role in the 2012 film Electrick Children.
27. She was cast alongside Zoey Deutch and Nicholas Braun in the 2016 comedy Good Kids.
28. Garner married singer Mark Foster, lead vocalist of Foster the People, in a December 2019 ceremony at New York City Hall, eight months after they got engaged.
29. In 2022, Garner was cast in thriller film Apartment 7A which serves as a prequel to 1968’s Rosemary’s Baby, directed by Natalie Erika James.
30. Her company Alma Margo also signed a first look deal with Tomorrow Studios.
31. In June of the same year, Garner was chosen by Madonna to play her in her self-produced biopic; the project was, however, put on hold.
32. In 2023, she starred in The Royal Hotel directed by Kitty Green.
33. She attended Indiana University, and she graduated in 2015 with a degree in psychology.
34. She met her husband at the Sundance Film Festival.
35. Her hair wasn’t always curly, until puberty.