Marielle Heller Sets First-Look Deal With Paramount Television Studios (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comKate Aurthur editorMarielle Heller has set a new first-look deal with Paramount Television Studios for her company, Defiant by Nature.
Along with producing partners Havilah Brewster and Leah Holzer, Heller will develop premium television shows for the studio across its platforms.Heller came to prominence as a writer-director for 2015’s “Diary of a Teenage Girl,” for which she won an Independent Spirit Award for best first feature.
She then went on to direct “Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) and “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” (2019), which drew effusive critical praise — as well as Oscar nominations for Melissa McCarthy, Richard E.
Grant and Tom Hanks. Heller, who began her career as an actor, also co-starred in the Emmy-winning limited series “The Queen’s Gambit” in fall 2020, playing Alma.
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