Who is Inventing Anna actress Julia Garner and what other films and TV shows has she been in?

Netflix shows Inventing Anna has proved a hit with viewers – racking up millions of hours of viewings since it dropped two weeks ago.

The nine-parter is based on a New York magazine investigation into fake heiress Anna Sorokin.

She conned eye-watering amounts of money out of US banks, hotels and friends by posing as a wealthy European called Anna Delvey.

The series follows journalist Vivian Kent as she tries to uncover the truth behind Sorokin’s frauds.

Sorokin is played by actress Julia Garner – who will be familiar to fans of acclaimed US dramas.

Who is Julia Garner?

Garner, 28, is an American actress – born in New York and raised in the Bronx. Her mother, Tami Gingold, is a therapist who had a successful career as an actress and comedian in her native Israel.

Her father Thomas Garner is a painter and an art teacher originally from Ohio.

She has told how she began taking acting lessons at age 15 to overcome her shyness.

What films and TV shows has Julia Garner been in?

Her film debut came at the age of 17, playing the role of Sarah in thriller Martha Marcy May Marlene.

Her first starring role was in the 2012 film indie film Electrick Children as a 15–year-old girl from a Mormon community who believes her pregnancy was a miraculous conception from listening to a song on a cassette tape.

In 2013 she starred in horror films The Last Exorcism Part II and We Are What We Are and a year later she co-starred in Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, playing the role of a young stripper.

She also starred in the comedy film Grandma alongside Lily Tomlin and appeared in an episode of Lena Dunham’s HBO series Girls.

Garner continued acting in television and landed a recurring role in the third season of acclaimed FX period spy thriller series The Americans.

But perhaps her breakthrough role came in 2017 when she starred as Ruth Langmore in Netflix crime drama Ozark. The role garnered her critical acclaim, including two consecutive Emmy awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama series.

She has since appeared in Netflix miniseries Maniac and Amazon Prime Video show Modern Love – as well as making regular appearances in true crime series Dirty John.

Who is Julia Garner married to?

Garner married musician Mark Foster, lead singer of Foster the People, at New York City Hall in December 2019 – eight months after getting engaged.