Ozark's Julia Garner pulled off an upset win [1] over all four Game of Thrones ladies in the supporting actress in a drama race at Sunday night's Emmy Awards [2]. While she's not as flashy a headliner as some of her fellow nominees [3], Garner has pretty much been in all the things. And we're really, really not kidding. Garner has been working in Hollywood for a decade now — here are a few things you should know about her.
- She's starred alongside two film superheroes. Garner's first feature film role was in 2011's Martha Marcy May Marlene, acting opposite Elizabeth Olsen in her pre-Scarlet Witch days. That's not the only big-screen superhero she worked with in their pre-superpowered days. In 2012, she worked with Ezra Miller, aka the DC film universe's The Flash, in The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
- Her first TV role lasted for four seasons. While many actors start out with small guest spots before finally landing a recurring or series regular role, Garner leapfrogged over all that to land a recurring role as Kimberley on The Americans from 2015 to 2018.
- Ozark [4] is her first leading role on TV. Garner has been playing young criminal Ruth Langmore on the Netflix drama [5] since its 2017 debut. While this year is her first Emmy win and nomination, she's been nominated for other awards previously: in 2018, she was nominated at the SAG Awards and the Critics' Choice Awards for her work on the show.
- Her fiancé is in the biz too. Garner is currently engaged to Mark Foster, a singer/songwriter best known as one of the founders of the group Foster the People.
- She went full method acting for her Ozark accent. Although her twangy accent sounds pretty authentic to us, Garner isn't even remotely a Southerner in real life — she's from the Bronx, NY. So she worked intensely to get her character's voice just right. "I wanted to sound authentic, so a month before doing Ozark, I would only speak in the accent," she told IndieWire [6]. "I would walk around everywhere [speaking with the accent]. I'd order my food with the accent. You kind of get a sense of the character [like that]."
- She's a fan of mindless reality TV. When Fashion asked her how she likes to decompress from her intense filming, she had a pretty dang relatable answer [7]: cheesy reality TV. "[Real] Housewives. It's bad. But I don't even have to watch. I can just go to the other room and just hear them banter, I love it."