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Ozark May Have Won Her the Emmy (Again!), but Julia Garner Has Had Plenty of Other Roles
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With her springy blond Shirley Temple-like curls, Julia Garner may be one of the most recognizable celebrities in Hollywood – but it seems as though she’s finally being recognized for her talent as well as her fabulous hair. The 25-year-old actress is best known for her starring role as Ruth Langmore in the Netflix crime drama Ozark, for which she just took home the 2020 Emmy award for outstanding supporting actress in a drama series. However, if Ozark is the only place you’ve seen this talented actress, you have some catching up to do. Here are all the movies and TV shows where you can spot the two-time Emmy winner.
Related: 6 Fast Facts About Ozark Actress Julia Garner
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Rachel McKnight in Electrick Children
Garner’s first lead role was in this 2012 indie film, where she plays Rachel, a 15-year-old girl from a fundamentalist Mormon community in Utah who – after learning that she is expecting – believes she became pregnant by listening to a song on a cassette tape.
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Rose Parker in We Are What We Are
In this 2013 horror flick, Garner plays Rose, a young woman whose mother dies unexpectedly and under curious circumstances, and whose father seems to be slowly unraveling following her death.
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Gwen in The Last Exorcism Part II
This 2013 supernatural drama is a sequel to 2010’s The Last Exorcism, and Garner plays the friend of Nell (a role reprised from the last film by Ashley Bell) who, along with her other friends, stands witness to the demonic inner forces that take over her friend.
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Sage in Grandma
Garner stars alongside Lily Tomlin in this dramedy as Sage, a teen who goes to her lesbian, widowed, poet grandmother to ask for money to pay for an abortion, and her grandmother helps her raise the money through a crowdfunding effort.
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Kimberly Breland in The Americans
Garner joined the cast of the FX period spy thriller series in its third season as Kimberly, or “Kimmy,” the daughter of the head of the CIA’s Afghan group who has some major daddy issues.
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Tinsley in Good Kids
In this 2016 comedy, Garner plays Tinsley, a young woman who befriends (and eventually becomes romantically involved with) an MMA instructor who goes by “The Lion” and who’s on a mission to have a wild Summer before his first year of college.
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Catherine in 100 Percent More Humidity
This 2017 drama costars Garner and Juno Temple as Catherine and Iris, college-age childhood friends who spend a Summer coping with the death of a mutual friend, who died in a car accident that almost claimed both their lives as well.
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Ellie Landsberg in Maniac
In this Netflix psychological miniseries, Garner plays Ellie, whose death in a car accident haunts her sister Annie (played by Emma Stone), as she feels largely responsible for it.
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Ruth Langmore in Ozark
Garner is perhaps best known for playing Ruth in Ozark, a 19-year-old woman from a crime-ridden family who unexpectedly partners with a financial adviser from Chicago (played by Jason Bateman), who is forced into money laundering in the Missouri Ozarks.
