In her spare time, she enjoys playing the guitar and writing songs. Kelli received rave reviews in New York for her Off-Broadway performance in Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead. Soon after, she reunited with Mike Mills in his 2005 Sundance Film Festival hit Thumbsucker (2005), and proved her ability to shine in comedy, and handle her first leading role, starring opposite Tommy Lee Jones in Man of the House (2005). Her performance captured the attention of director Larry Clark, who cast her in her first feature film, in the role of the drug-addicted teen, Heather Swallers, in the controversial docudrama Bully (2001), establishing Kelli as a fiery young talent.Īfter sharpening her teeth on television and independent films, the edgy young actress earned a part as the 1940's Hollywood ingénue (opposite Leonardo DiCaprio) in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator (2004) making her Moviefone's Rising Star. She began her career when she was discovered at a friends Bar Mitzvah and made her film debut at age 16 in director Mike Mills's short Architecture of Reassurance (2000), a Sundance Film Festival entry. Garner was born in Bakersfield, grew up in Thousand Oaks, and currently resides in Calabasas, California.
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He also had a starring role in the short-lived period drama television series Pan Am, from 2011-2012.
At the moment, Garner is playing Kate Ryan in the series “The Enemy Within” (2019).Kelli Garner is an American actress whose feature film credits include Man of the House, The Aviator, Bully and Thumbsucker. Kelli starred in the Primetime Emmy Award-nominated mini-series “The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe” (2015), in which she played the lead role along with Susan Sarandon.
In 2013, she had a supporting role in the horror “Horns”, with Daniel Radcliffe, Juno Temple and Max Minghella, and in 2015 played in “One More Time” starring Christopher Walken and Amber Heard. Kelli Garner opened the current decade with the role of Brianna alongside Drew Barrymore, Justin Long and Ron Livingston in the romantic comedy “Going the Distance” (2010), and then played Kate Cameron in 14 episodes of the Primetime Emmy Award-nominated series “Pan Am” (2011-2012) starring Christina Ricci, Margot Robbie and Michael Mosley. Garner ended the 2000s with roles in such films as Ang Lee’s “Taking Woodstock” (2009), and in the animated film “G-Force” (2009).
Kelli then starred with Agnes Bruckner and Justin Long in “Dreamland” (2006), while she played Margo in Craig Gillespie’s Oscar-nominated “Lars and the Real Girl” (2007) starring Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer, and Paul Schneider. Garner was quite busy in the mid-2000s, and worked on numerous projects on the big-screen including Mike Mills’ comedy “Thumbsucker” starring Lou Taylor Pucci, Tilda Swinton and Vincent D’Onofrio, playing alongside Tommy Lee Jones and Christina Milian in “Man of the House”, and with Jessica Biel, Chris Evans and Jason Statham in the romantic drama “London” all in 2005. She followed up with an impressive string of films including Thumbsucker directed by Mike Mills, Man Of The House opposite Tommy Lee Jones, and Taking Woodstock directed by Ang Lee. Kelli Garner Rise to Prominence and the 2000s Kelli Garner Marilyn Monroe.Kelli Garner began her film career in Bully directed by Larry Clark. Her first blockbuster was Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-winning biography drama “The Aviator” (2004), about the famous director and aviator Howard Hughes and his career from the late 1920s to the mid-‘40s, with Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett and Kate Beckinsale.
In 2001, Kelli played Heather Swallers alongside Brad Renfro, Nick Stahl, and Bijou Phillips in Larry Clark’s biography “Bully”, while a year later, she had a supporting role in the comedy “Love Liza” (2002) starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Annie Morgan and Kathy Bates.
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Kelli Garner had her big-screen debut in the romantic comedy “Bitter Suite” (2000) starring Nastassja Kinski and Timothy Dalton, and the same year appeared in the television movie “This Is How the World Ends”.
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