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Kelli Brianne Garner (born April 11,
1984) is an American actress. Her credits include Man of
the House, The Aviator, Bully and Thumbsucker. She also
co-starred in the Green Day video Jesus of Suburbia (she
does not, however, play the character Whatsername, since
Jimmy does not meet Whatsername until he leaves home,
which he does at the end of the song).
In December 2005, Garner starred in the Off-Broadway
production of Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage
Blockhead at the Century Center for the Performing Arts.
A petite and bright-eyed actress, California native
Kelli Garner stumbled into acting in her teen years,
making fast inroads into the worlds of film, television
and music videos. Creating a name for herself through
bad girl roles in early works like the indie drama
“Bully“ (2001) and TV’s “Buffy the Vampire
Slayer” (WB/UPN, 1997-2003), Garner branched out into
music video appearances for the likes of rappers
N.E.R.D. and punk chartbusters Green Day.
With a longtime collaborator in director
Mike Mills and a fan in director, Martin Scorsese,
Garner charmed a wider audience in career-boosting work
such as Mills’ contemplative “Thumbsucker” (2005)
and Scorsese’s golden age of Hollywood tale, “The
Aviator” (2004).
Garner was born on April 11, 1984, Bakersfield, CA and
raised in the suburb of Thousand Oaks. At age 14, she
was spotted on the dance floor at an actor friend’s
bar mitzvah, where his manager inquired about her own
possible interest in acting. At the time, Garner was
more consumed by soccer and was hoping to become a
professional player, but later decided to sign with the
manager. She was soon sent off on a waffle commercial
audition and promptly won the job, which would help her
segue into several other high profile television spots.
Garner‘s first film job was in a short by artist-video
director Mike Mills – “Architecture of
Reassurance” (2000), a suburban “Alice in
Wonderland” story. The short debuted at the Sundance
festival at the start of 2000 and was seen by
photographer-turned-film director Larry Clark, who had
an eye for spotting interesting looking youths. He was
intrigued by Garner’s imperfect smile and picked her
to act in a film project of his own. Garner’s work
with Mills also came in handy when he cast her to appear
in his 2000 music video for “Everything but the
Girl” – a track from Temperamental. That year, she
was tapped for Gregg Araki’s pilot “This is How the
World Ends” a youth-oriented “Twin Peaks”-ish
series for MTV, for which she played the character of
Christmas, but the ambitious project was deemed to
costly for the network to produce.
Following her attempts at series work, Garner went on
land her first major bit of exposure on the tent-pole
horror series, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” playing
the gossipy rumor-monger Kirstie in the big 2001 episode
“The Body.” Later that year, her project with Larry
Clark, the teen drama “Bully” (2001) hit theaters.
In the film, Garner played Heather, one of several fed
up teens that conspire to kill a teen tormentor in a
story loosely based on the real events of a group of
Florida teenagers.
No stranger to controversy, Clark’s
films could always be counted on to generate a wide
array of publicity, and Garner was steadily able to find
work onscreen, appearing in a pair of episodes of
“Grounded for Life” (Fox, 2001-05) in 2001. At the
start of 2002, she took up as a teen girl huffing
gasoline fumes in the Philip Seymour Hoffman vehicle
“Love Liza” (2002) and soon after could be seen in
another music video – this time, acting in the clip
for rap supergroup N.E.R.D.’s single, “Provider.”
At the start of 2004, the actress was back in true-life
mean girl territory, playing – much as she had in
“Bully” – a teenager guilty of joining up with a
peer group’s murderous plot against another teen on
“Law and Order: Special Victims Unit” (NBC, 1999- ).
At the end of the year, she took flight opposite
Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese’s Oscar
contender, “The Aviator” (2004), providing a
portrait of the would-be teen starlet Faith Domergue,
paramour of the troubled Hollywood/aviation mogul Howard
Hughes. Almost immediately, the film’s cache turned
her from a somewhat-unknown actress to an emerging
figure on Hollywood’s radar.
By the time Mike Mills was ready to make his feature
debut in 2003, having worked with Garner before, she was
a clear choice to co-star in “Thumbsucker,” which
hit the festivals early in 2005 and saw its release
spread out throughout the year. Once again, as Rebecca,
the classmate of a thumbsucking addict, she was ably
cast as a beguiling object of affection. Meanwhile, over
in the multiplexes, Garner’s role as a cheerleader in
the long-shelved Sony Pictures action comedy “Man of
the House” (2005) fared less impressively, seeing its
tiny release at the start of the year.
Still, Garner maintained a strong presence in the world
of independent moviemaking, finding solace in the
quasi-reality of “London” (2005), in which she and a
mix of on-edge partygoers ended up getting philosophical
over a cocaine binge. Late in 2005, she appeared in
Green Day’s video for its popular track, “Jesus of
Suburbia” and, for a change of pace, decided to try
some stage work as well.
She went to New York and co-starred in the Off-Broadway
play, “Dog Sees God.” She was slated to appear on
Broadway in a production of Eric Bogosian’s
“SubUrbia” in the fall of 2006, but instead opted to
head to the Toronto-based film shoot of “Lars and the
Real Girl” (2007), a unique story about a young man
and his romance with a blow-up doll. Garner also
continued to expand upon her fascination with characters
in “Normal Adolescent Behavior” (2007), a high
school feature drama about a small circle of friends’
tumultuous mixing of sex and friendship.
Garner, who was born in Bakersfield, California, enjoys
playing guitar and shopping. She currently resides in
Calabasas, California. |
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