Rebecca Miller
Rebecca Augusta Miller (born
September 15,
1962 in
Roxbury,
Connecticut) is an
American film director,
screenwriter and
actress, most known for the films
Personal Velocity: Three Portraits,
The Ballad of Jack and Rose and
Angela, all of which she wrote and directed.
Miller is the daughter of
playwright Arthur Miller and
photographer Inge Morath. She studied art at
Yale University and initially pursued an acting career, gaining parts in the TV-movie
The Murder of Mary Phagan (also featuring
Jack Lemmon,
Kevin Spacey,
William H. Macy,
Dylan Baker,
Cynthia Nixon, and
Charles Dutton; 1988) and films
Regarding Henry (with
Harrison Ford; 1991) and
Consenting Adults (with
Kevin Kline and
Kevin Spacey; 1992). In
1995, she shifted behind the camera, writing and directing her first film,
Angela. The film was critically well-received, but did not garner significant attention or audiences.
Miller had markedly more success with her
2002 film
Personal Velocity: Three Portraits, an adaptation of
Personal Velocity (ISBN 080211699X), a collection of short stories she had published the previous year. The film gained a reasonable cinematic release for an
arthouse film, won her a large number of awards, including the Grand Jury Prize at the
Sundance Film Festival and largely established her name as a director. Her two most recent projects have been the
2003 book
A Woman Who... (ISBN 1582343535) and the
2005 film
The Ballad of Jack and Rose.
Miller married actor
Daniel Day-Lewis in
1996, and the couple have two young children.
