20 Best Julia Garner Movies & TV Shows
Julia Garner is an American model and actress. She is best known for her roles in the series The Americans (2015–2018), the Netflix miniseries Maniac (2018), the Bravo true-crime series Dirty John (2018–2019), and plays the title role in the Netflix miniseries Inventing Anna (2022). In films, she has starred in Electrick Children (2012), We Are What We Are (2013), Grandma (2015), and The Assistant (2019).
In this article, we are going to bring you a list of the 20 best performances by Julia Garner. We are going to divide them into two categories, giving you her 10 best film roles and her 10 best television performances. The works are not going to be ranked in any particular order.
1. The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Susan
Release Date: 2012
Charlie, on his first day of high school, hardly talks to anyone because of his shyness; he later manages to make friends with a senior girl, Sam, and his same-age half-brother Patrick. He goes with them to the school year party and later to a private home, where he is offered a dessert that, unbeknownst to him, contains cannabis.
Due to the drug making him looser, Charlie starts talking to friends about him and discovers that he has a lot in common with them. Meanwhile, the boy establishes a good relationship with his literature professor with whom he shares a passion for writing.
2. Electrick Children – Rachel McKnight
Release Date: 2012
The 15-year-old Rachel grows up in a Mormon community in Utah, along with her very large family. One day she discovers she is pregnant and she becomes convinced that this is due to her having secretly listened to a cassette belonging to one of her brothers.
The fact of her is discovered by her parents, who accuse her brother of incest (expelling him from her community) and force her to marry the same day. But Rachel, self-convinced that she is a sort of Virgin Mary, chooses to escape into the night in search of her alleged father for Las Vegas.
3. Sin City: A Dame to Kill For – Marcie
Release Date: 2014
The events narrated occur years before A Death Binge. Dwight McCarthy is a photographer hired by jealous wives to take pictures of their husbands in flagrant adultery. During his last assignment, having rescued the young prostitute Sally from her lover Joey, Dwight takes her back to the Old Town, the realm of prostitutes.
Shortly after returning home, he receives a call from Ava Lord, an old and never forgotten flame of his, who asks him to meet him the same night at Kadie’s Bar. Once he arrives, the woman asks Dwight’s forgiveness for severing all relations with him. to marry the wealthy millionaire Damien Lord, a man who makes her live in terror and has her everywhere followed by a threatening and violent bodyguard, Manute.
He arrives at Kadie’s Bar, interrupting the conversation between the two and taking Ava away.
4. The Assistant – Jane
Release Date: 2019
The typical day of Jane, the new personal assistant to the Chief, a powerful film producer whose sexual harassment is a secret of Pulcinella within the working environment.
5. Hair Brained – Shauna
Release Date: 2014
Barely 14 years old, Eli Pettifog, is expelled from Harvard University. Following this banishment, he is at Whitman College where he meets and quickly becomes friends with Leo Searly.
6. We Are What We Are – Rose Parker
Release Date: 2013
The Parkers seem like any other family, with the difference that they eat human flesh every day. The father runs a camping business and has the hobby of assembling clocks in an old shed. The mother is very religious and takes care of the education of her children; little Rory is afraid that there are monsters in the basement. The two teenage daughters, Rose and Iris, have retained their purity, but a fatal accident will force them to take on the task of bringing the meat to the table.
7. Martha Marcy May Marlene – Sarah
Release Date: 2011
Martha / Marcy May escapes a sect in the Catskill Mountains that abuses its members, taking refuge in a nearby town. At a restaurant, she is confronted by a cult member who tries to persuade her to return, but she refuses. Martha calls her sister Lucy.
The woman picks her up and decides to host her in her vacation home in Connecticut that she shares with her husband Ted. In a flashback, Martha first meets cult leader Patrick. Patrick renames her Marcy May and welcomes her into her sect as a friend of hers.
8. Grandma – Sage
Release Date: 2015
Elle is a lesbian poet who faces the recent death of her life partner, Violet, after 38 years of relationship. Tied to the past, she fails to establish a new history and, on the contrary, ends a four-month relationship with a younger admirer, Olivia, telling her that their relationship meant nothing, before receiving a visit from her 18-year-old niece.
Sage is pregnant with her and asks her for $ 630 for an abortion, which is scheduled for that afternoon. While Elle is broke after paying for her ex-partner’s care and Sage has her credit card blocked by her bossy mother, the two embark on a journey through Los Angeles to try to find the money.
9. Everything Beautiful Is Far Away – Rola
Release Date: 2017
Lernert travels through a barren landscape, digging through piles of trash to build a body for his companion Susan, the unresponsive robotic head dangling from the back of her backpack.
The pair meet Rola, a spirited young woman who lacks survival skills but makes up for it with sheer determination. This unlikely trio navigates the harsh desert in search of a mythical pool of water that could replenish their depleted resources and renew their will to carry on.
10. The Last Exorcism Part II – Gwen
Release Date: 2013
After the events in the first film, a couple finds Nell Sweetzer, with a demonic appearance, next to their refrigerator. She is immediately hospitalized for her catatonic state. She is entrusted to Frank Merle’s family home for girls and after a few months, Nell settles into her new life by also finding a job as a waitress in a hotel.
One day she and her new friends visit a costume parade around town and at this moment Nell begins to sense that the demon Abalam is returning to her. People close to Nell begin to die at the behest of the demon, in fact, even the girl’s boyfriend is forced to commit suicide by the demonic entity.
11. Ozark – Ruth Langmore
Release Date: 2017–2022
Marty, a financial advisor who lives with his family in Chicago, has a very special second job: laundering dirty money for Mexican drug cartels. However, when things start to go wrong, he and his wife Wendy and two children Charlotte and Jonah move to a resort in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri, convincing Mexican boss Del Río that large sums of money can be easily laundered there.
12. The Americans – Kimberly Breland
Release Date: 2015–2018
The story is set in the 1980s during Ronald Reagan’s administration (a tense period between the United States and the Soviet Union). Soviet KGB spies Philip and Elizabeth Jennings have lived for the past fifteen years on the outskirts of Washington D.C. as a supposed married couple. Their relationship, in which there are two children involved who are unaware of this double life, begins to get complicated as they enter American life.
His undercover operations are put at risk after the death of one of his officers and the arrival in the neighborhood of an FBI agent specializing in counterintelligence, Stan Beeman, who maintains a strained relationship with his wife due to work.
Although The Americans is set in fictional fact, it is based on notes from KGB agent Vasili Mitrokhin’s book and anecdotes from FBI agents, and uses a concept from before the present day to lend more credibility.
13. Inventing Anna – Anna (Sorokin) Delvey
Release Date: 2022
The series tells the story of Vivian, a young journalist who investigates the case of Anna Delvey, the legendary German heiress who, in addition to stealing the hearts of the protagonists of the social scene in New York, also steals their money.
Is Anna the biggest con artist in New York or is she simply the new portrait of the American dream? Pending her trial, the heiress forms a dark and amusing bond of love and hate with Vivian, who defies time to solve New York’s biggest mystery: who really is Anna Delvey?
14. Waco – Michelle Jones
Release Date: 2018
The miniseries explores the 51-day 1993 relationship between the FBI, the ATF, and David Koresh’s religious faction, the Davidians, in Waco, Texas, which culminated in a deadly fire. Following the discovery of an arms trade run by Koresh and his affiliates, the ATF attacks the house where the Davidians are located.
However, even though Koresh came out with his hands up, the ATF men shoot wounding Koresh and killing some of his followers. The reaction of the Davidians is immediate. Thanks to the numerous weapons at their disposal, they repel the attack of the ATF, whose men are however promptly replaced by those of the FBI.
Despite the mediation attempts of Gary Noesner, an FBI specialist, however opposed by those who would like to take the hard way, Koresh refuses to leave the building. Mediation only leads to the release of some hostages, including many children. As the weeks pass, the interventionist wing of the besiegers takes hold, drives Noesner away and finally convinces the government to issue a permit to spread tear gas inside the building, using tanks that break through the walls.
Women and children are trapped by the collapses in a bunker where they had taken refuge: the unleashing of a fire, which it is unknown whether it is due to the launch of tear gas or was started by the Davidians themselves, causes the death of 75 people, including 21 children. As the fire rages on, Koresh’s right arm kills him by shooting him, at his request, and then kills himself. Noesner watches helplessly from the TV screen at the burned-out Mount Carmel ranch.
15. Maniac – Ellie Landsberg
Release Date: 2018
Maniac follows Annie Landsberg and Owen Milgrim, two strangers drawn into the final stages of a mysterious pharmaceutical trial, each for their own reasons. Annie is discontented and aimless, obsessed with broken relationships with her mother and her sister; Owen, the fifth son of two wealthy New York industrialists, has struggled all his life with a disputed diagnosis of schizophrenia.
None of their lives have turned out well, and the promise of a radical new kind of pharmaceutical treatment: a sequence of pills that its inventor, Dr. James K. Mantleray, claims can fix anything about the mind, be it disease mental or heartbreak: he takes them along with ten other strangers to the Neberdine Pharmaceutical and Biotech facility for a three-day drug trial that they claim has no complications or side effects of any kind, solving all their problems permanently.
16. Dirty John – Terra Newell
Release Date: 2018–2019
Dirty John tells the story of how a romance with the charismatic John Meehan spiraled into secrecy, denial, manipulation, and ultimately survival – with horrific consequences for the entire family.
17. Girls – Charlie’s Roommate
Release Date: 2016
The series follows the stories of four friends who are trying to build a life after moving to New York. Hannah, her main character, is an aspiring writer in her twenties who is forced to re-discuss her aspirations after her parents decide to cut her support funds and is accompanied by best friends Marnie, Jessa and Shoshanna. . Hannah will discover how many mistakes she needs to make in order to survive in New York with ambitious projects.
18. Modern Love – Maddy
Release Date: 2019
Modern Love explores love in its myriad forms, including sexual, romantic, familial, platonic, and self love, which are presented in eight half-hour episodes. The Amazon series, based on the New York Times column of the same name, adapts different love stories that take place in New York City.
19. The Get Down – Claudia Gunns
Release Date: 2016–2017
The first part of the first season is set in 1977. In New York, in the difficult South Bronx neighborhood, a bizarre group of teenagers observes how old musical genres are progressively replaced by new genres, aimed precisely at young people, namely hip-hop, funk, disco music, and rap. The boys live between dance moves, spray cans, and dreams.
Despite the economic crisis, music doesn’t just save the world, it changes it completely. The story develops mainly around the events of Ezekiel “Books” Figuero and Mylene Cruz, without neglecting the events that hit the South Bronx. Mylene dreams of becoming a singer outside the Bronx.
20. Robot Chicken – Various voices
Release Date: 2020
Robot Chicken is an American animated series for adults that uses the stop motion animation technique. It was created by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich in 2005 and is broadcast on the Adult Swim block on Cartoon Network. The series parodies countless situations involving television series, film actors, musicians, and video games.
The opening sequence of the series justifies its name, and it is about a chicken that was run over and was resurrected and turned into a robot by a mad scientist who forced him to watch a list of violent television series as a method of torture (parody of La Mechanical orange). The opening theme for the series was performed and composed by Les Claypool, vocalist and bassist for Primus.