Rebecca Miller
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Miller at the premiere of The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, 2009 Toronto International Film Festival
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Rebecca Augusta Miller September 15, 1962 Roxbury, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Yale University |
| Occupation | filmmaker, screenwriter, director, novelist |
| Years active | 1988–present |
| Spouse(s) | Daniel Day-Lewis (m. 1996) |
| Children | 2 |
| Parent(s) |
Arthur Miller Inge Morath |
Rebecca Augusta Miller, The Lady Day-Lewis (born September 15, 1962) is an American independent filmmaker, screenwriter, film director, and novelist, known for her films Angela, Personal Velocity: Three Portraits, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, and Maggie's Plan, all of which she wrote and directed. Miller is the daughter of Magnum photographer Inge Morath and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Arthur Miller.
Miller was born in Roxbury, Connecticut, and grew up with her father, playwright Arthur Miller, and mother, Austrian-born photographer Inge Morath. Her brother, Daniel, was born in 1966. Her father was Jewish, and her mother was Protestant. For a time during childhood, Miller practiced Catholicism on her own accord. She has said that she stopped thinking of herself as a Christian "somewhere at the end of college." Miller remembered her childhood in Roxbury surrounded by artists. Sculptor Alexander Calder was a neighbor; so were choreographer Martha Clarke and members of the experimental dance troupe Pilobolus. Immersed in drawing, Miller was tutored by another neighbor, sculptor Philip Grausman.
Miller was educated at Choate Rosemary Hall. In 1980, she entered Yale University to study painting and literature. The author Naomi Wolf was her roommate. Miller created wooden panel triptychs she described as hybrids of pictographic forms inspired, for examples, by Paul Klee and a 15th-century altarpiece. Upon graduation in 1985, Miller went abroad on a fellowship, to Munich, Germany. In 1987, Miller took up residence in New York City, and she showed painting and sculpture at Leo Castelli Gallery, Victoria Munroe Gallery, and in Connecticut. Miller also studied film at the The New School. Mentored by then 92-year-old professor, photographer, cinematographer, Arnold S. Eagle, Miller began making non-verbal films, which she exhibited along with her artwork.
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