Marielle Stiles Heller is an American writer, director, and actress. She is best known for directing The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, and the Fred Rogers drama film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. Heller studied theatre at UCLA and then at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
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Marielle Stiles Heller is an American writer, director, and actress. She is best known for directing The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, and the Fred Rogers drama film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. Heller was born in Marin County, California, to Steve Heller, a chiropractor, and Annie Stiles-Heller, an artist and art teacher. She studied theatre at UCLA and then at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Heller’s writing credits include screenplays, theatrical plays, and pilots for ABC and 20th Century Fox, such as the ABC pilot The Big Apple and a film for Disney, titled Renegade X. She has said she is drawn to stories about people trying to navigate the world through storytelling, and that she wants to help people do the same with their own stories.
In January 2018, it was announced that Heller would direct the film that chronicles the life of Fred Rogers. The screenplay was written by Emmy-nominated producers Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harperman. Tom Hanks, who portrays Mr. Rogers, agreed to join the project once Heller signed on as director, as they had met through Hanks’ son, Colin Hanks. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2018. It was released on October 19, 2018 by Fox Searchlight.
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