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Govindini Murty

Govindini Murty
Born (1974-06-20) 20 June 1974 (age 42)
Manipur, India
Occupation Actress, Producer, Writer

Govindini Murty (born 1974) is a U.S.-based, Canadian producer, actress, and journalist. Murty's father is Indian and her mother is Canadian of English descent. Murty is a graduate of Yale University, and has been published in The Atlantic,The Huffington Post, and is a member of the Alliance of Women Film Journalists and Indiewire's Criticwire. In 2013, Murty spoke at Social Media Week LA's "Power Women in Entertainment" roundtable. As of 2016, Murty is producer and lead actress on the World War II sci-fi short film UFO Diary, featured in the January 2016 issue of American Cinematographer.

In recent years, Murty has focused in her writing on progressive women's rights, human rights, science, and technology. She has interviewed such film icons as Werner Herzog, and Stan Lee, as well as notable contemporary filmmakers and actors like Kurt Russell,Catherine Hardwicke, Lynn Shelton, Lake Bell,Steven Knight, and Shia LaBeouf, among others. In 2013 Murty was selected to attend a NASA Earth Science conference at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and has since written on the need to support NASA and promote space science in movies. Murty has also appeared on television to share her thoughts on Hollywood and popular culture. She has appeared on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, AMC, BBC, and in 2007 she cohosted an episode of At the Movies With Ebert & Roeper on ABC.


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