Miranda July Biography
Miranda July Is an American actress, screenwriter, film director, author, singer as well as an artist who is known for her roles in films, monologues, fiction productions, digital media presentations, and live performance art.
Her most notable films include Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) and The Future (2011), both of which she starred in, wrote, and directed. She is also famous for her books The First Bad Man (2015) and No One Belongs Here More Than You (2007).
Miranda July Age
Born as Miranda Jennifer Grossinger, she is 45 years old as of 2019. Miranda was born on 15th February 1974 in Barre, Vermont, U.S.
Miranda July Parents | Family
July was born to parents who are also writers: Lindy Hough and Richard Grossinger. They were teachers at Goddard College when Miranda was born. Her parents are the founders of North Atlantic Books in Berkeley, California which publishes content on alternative health, martial arts, and spiritual titles.
The name July is self-given and she made it legal when she was in her 20s. She thought of it when she was 15 years old, having been inspired by a story she read in a zine. She has no sibling, an only child of her parents who have always been involved in their work a lot.
Is Miranda July Married? | Miranda July Husband
Yes, Miranda is married to fellow film director and artist Mike Mills. They met in 2006 at both of their first Sundance Festival premieres and began their relationship soon after. In 2009, during summer, the tied the knot and have a son together.
Miranda July Career
July began writing plays at a young age, with one of her first being “The Lifers”, a play she wrote and directed. Later on, she enrolled in UC Santa Cruz but dropped out of school in her sophomore year. She then got into performance art, or “one-woman shows” and she was successful at it.
July began her career in films in the riot grrl scene. Soon after her involvement with the scene, she launched a project to bring together many women artists as possible. From the women’s first short film. July compiled a videotape of their short film and nine others to form a “chainletter tape” that was first called Big Miss Moviola and was released in 1995. It was renamed to Joanie4Jackie.
Her first film is known as Atlanta, and it appears on the second tape of the series. She ran the project from 1995 till 2003 when she handed it over to Bard College’s film department. In 2004, July was included in the “25 New Faces of Indie Film” list by the Filmmaker Magazine.
She also won a slot in a Sundance workshop and decided to develop her first feature-length film. It was known as Me and You and Everyone We Know, and it opened in 2005. It was a successful film and it won her a Caméra d’Or prize in 2005 at The Cannes Festival and the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, Feature Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the San Francisco International Film Festival, Best First Feature at the Philadelphia Film Festival, and the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the Los Angeles Film Festival.
Miranda July The Future
The Future is one of July’s film that she wrote, starred in, and also directed in 2011. She made the announcement concerning her work on the project on 16th May 2007. It was first known as “Satisfaction” but later renamed to “The Future” and July role as an actress was a lead role. It premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.
Miranda July Metal Bowl
The Metal Bowl is a short story by July that was published on 4th September 2017 by The New Yorker. To read the publication, click here.
Miranda July Uniqlo
Having been inspired by the riot grrrl movement, July’s films have a theme of “intimacy” as well as that of sex. Her interest in costume and clothing is unique and quite strong. She was involved in the Japanese casual wear designer and clothing line, Uniqlo Co., Ltd, in 2019 as its lookbook creative director.
Miranda July Films
TBA – Kajillionaire as a writer and director
2018 – Madeline’s Madeline as an actress
2014 – Miranda July Introduces the Miranda – an advertisement for a handbag designed by July and Welcome Companions.
2014 – Somebody, Miu Miu’s Women’s Tales
2011 – The Future as a writer, actress, and director
2005 – Me and You and Everyone We Know as a writer, actress, and director
2005 – Are You the Favorite Person of Anybody? – she appeared on Wholphin issue 1
2003 – Haysha Royko
2001 – The Center of the World as a co-writer
2001 – The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal as a narrator
2001 – Getting Stronger Every Day
1999 – Nest of Tens
1999 – Jesus’ Son as an actress
1999 – A Shape Called Horse – she appeared on Video Fanzine #1
1996 – a documentary titled The Portland Girl Convention by Emily B. Kingan
1996 – Atlanta – she appeared on Audio-Cinematic Mix Tape
I Started Out With Nothing and I Still Have Most of It Left
Miranda July authoring works | Books
2015 – The First Bad Man: A Novel
2011 – It Chooses You, photographs by Brigitte Sire
2007 – No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
2007 – Learning to Love You More with Harrell Fletcher
Short stories
2017 – The Metal Bowl in The New Yorker
2007 – Roy Spivey in The New Yorker
2007 – The Swim Team in the Harper’s Magazine
2006 – Majesty in Timothy McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern
2006 – Something That Needs Nothing in The New Yorker)
2005 – The Shared Patio in Zoetrope: All-Story
2005 – The Boy from Lam Kien in Los Angeles: Cloverfield Press
2004 – The Man on the Stairs in Fence Magazine
2003 – The Moves in Tin House
2003 – This Person in Bridge Magazine
2003 – Birthmark in Paris Review
2003 – Frances Gabe’s Self Cleaning House in Nest
2003 – It Was Romance in the Harvard Review
2003 – Making Love in the Paris Review
2002 – Jack and Al in the Mississippi Review
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You can find her Instagram posts on instagram.com/mirandajuly/.