Brit Heyworth Marling (born August 7, 1983) is an American writer, producer, director, and actress. After majoring in economics at Georgetown University, Brit moved to Los Angeles with friends Mike Cahil and Zal Batmanglij to pursue screenplay writing and acting. Marling was born in Chicago, Illinois. She was named "Brit" after her Norwegian maternal great-grandmother. She graduated from Georgetown University in 2005 with degrees in economics and studio art, and was her class Valedictorian.

Following graduation from Georgetown, Marling spent a summer interning for the investing banking firm Goldman Sachs. She later turned down a job offer from the firm, opting instead to move to Cuba with friend and director Mike Cahill to film the documentary Boxers and Ballerinas.

It was for this documentary that Marling first gained recognition in 2004; having co-written the film with Mike Cahill and Nicholas Shumaker and co-directed with Mike Cahill. Marling also co-wrote, co-produced, and acted in the 2011 films Sound of My Voice and Another Earth. Both of these films were featured at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, with Another Earth winning the Alfred P. Sloan Prize for outstanding film with science, technology or math as a major theme. In 2012, she played Richard Gere's daughter in Arbitrage. In 2013, she collaborated with Sundance once again on her lead role in The East alongside Ellen Page and Alexander Skarsgård.

Brittany „Brit“ Heyworth Marling ist eine US-amerikanische Drehbuchautorin, Filmproduzentin, Regisseurin und Schauspielerin, die vornehmlich an Independentfilm-Produktionen mitwirkt.

Brit Marling studierte Wirtschaftswissenschaften an der Georgetown University, an der sie 2005 graduierte. Mit der Dokumentation Boxers and Ballerinas machte sie als Co-Autorin gemeinsam mit Mike Cahill und Nicholas Shumaker sowie als Co-Regisseurin an der Seite von Cahill erstmals auf sich aufmerksam. Des Weiteren wirkte sie 2011 als Co-Autorin, Produzentin und Schauspielerin bei den Independentproduktionen Another Earth und Sound of My Voice mit. Beide Filme wurden beim 27. Sundance Film Festival 2011 vorgestellt. Another Earth, ein Science-Fiction-Film, in dem sie die Hauptfigur Rhoda Williams spielt, gewann den Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize und den U.S. Dramatic Competition Special Jury Prize des Festivals.

2017 wurde sie für ihre Leistungen als Drehbuchautorin in die Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) aufgenommen, die alljährlich die Oscars vergibt.

Brit Heyworth Marling, mais conhecida como Brit Marling (nascida em 7 de agosto de 1983 em Chicago, Illinois)[1] é uma atriz, roteirista, produtora e diretora americana. Seu primeiro reconhecimento foi em 2004, com o documentário Boxers and Ballerinas. Mais tarde, se tornou uma estrela no Festival Sundance de Cinema, com os filmes A Seita Misteriosa (2011), A Outra Terra (2011) e O Sistema (2013), tanto protagonizando quanto co-escrevendo em todos eles. Marling colaborou para criar a série de drama The OA, que estreou em 2016 na Netflix. Que foi co-escrita pela própria assim como atua no papel principal.

Американская актриса, сценарист и продюсер. Впервые получила известность в 2004 году за документальный фильм «Боксёры и балерины», который она написала в соавторстве с Майком Кэхиллом и Николаем Шумакером.