Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Movie, Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay, Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play
Movies
Ruby Sparks, What If, In Your Eyes, The Pretty One, Revolutionary Road, Our Brand Is Crisis, It's Complicated, Happythankyoumoreplease, The Exploding Girl, Meek's Cutoff, Me and Orson Welles, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, Some Girl(s), I Hate Valentine's Day, My Blind Brother, Fracture, The Savage...
TV Shows
Olive Kitteridge
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[on taking up screen-writing] We are in the most insane waiting game of a business, and the only way I have stayed sane is by giving myself another creative outlet.
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I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did. I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play. I never wanted to be a playwright. I just didn't say no to any of my interests. I don't have any hobbies.
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Broadway is different now than in our parents' generation. The number of straight plays opening there now is so small compared to the 1950s, '60s and '70s. I see many more plays Off Broadway by dint of ticket price and what's being produced. If it costs more, it has to reach a larger audience. That's why there aren't more risky plays on Broadway.
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[on playwriting] I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem. It's fun and easy to write language, but there were things I loved that I had to get rid of because they are no longer carrying their weight.
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[why she's reluctant to act] It's just that actors are all lumped together as this vague mass of fame-hungry, swag-wearing, drug-using, eating-disordered people, and I sometimes get sick of being lumped with that group.
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Fact
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She is currently in "The Seagull" on Broadway [November 2008]
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A senior at Yale University. [October 2004]
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New York, USA: Her play 'We Live Here,' commissioned by the Manhattan Theater Club, will premiere there in September. [August 2011]
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Broadway - currently making her Broadway debut, playing "Marie" in "Come Back, Little Sheba", starring S. Epatha Merkerson, at Manhattan Theatre Club (Biltmore Theatre, NYC). [January 2008]
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She has Greek (from her paternal grandfather), English, and German ancestry.
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