Rebecca Miller

Rebecca Miller is one of those rare filmmakers who operates completely on her own terms, and I find that genuinely refreshing. The daughter of Arthur Miller and photographer Inge Morath, she could have coasted on legacy alone, but instead she built a quietly formidable body of work — from the raw, intimate Personal Velocity: Three Portraits to the offbeat romantic comedy Maggie's Plan — all of which she wrote and directed herself. She studied at Yale, she sculpts and paints, she married Daniel Day-Lewis: her life sounds almost novelistic, which tracks because she's also a published novelist. Her films never chase box office; they chase something truer about women's inner lives, and that Independent Spirit Cassavetes Award in 2003 feels exactly right for an artist who refuses to make safe, committee-approved choices.

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Name (English)

Rebecca Miller

Name (Japanese)

レベッカ・ミラー

Reading

れべっか・みらー

Born

September 15, 1962 (age 64)

Origin

Roxbury, Connecticut, United States

Occupation

screenwriter / film director / actor / sculptor / painter

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Tiger

University

Yale University

Awards & achievements

• 1995 Open Palm Award
• 2003 Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award

• Official sitehttps://www.rebecca-miller.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/rmconductor
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca%20Miller
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AC%E3%83%99%E3%83%83%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9F%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q508184

Tags

• Connecticut
• screenwriter
• film director
• actor

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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