Brit Marling is a name that's starting to roll off the tongue. The Chicago-born triple threat (she writes, produces and acts) is about to hit the big screen this weekend with "Sound Of My Voice," a film bought by Fox Searchlight after it's premiere at Sundance in 2011.
Marling plays the mesmerizing leader of a cult in Los Angeles, but there's more to it than that. She claims to be from the future. What could be a snicker-worthy plot is instead a film both quiet and eerie, intense and intoxicating -- for Marling's power on screen is unlike many we see today. She is simply magnetic.
But what is most appealing about Marling is her spirit. After growing tired of not finding compelling roles for women in Hollywood, she did the obvious. She wrote them herself. Marling co-wrote, co-produced and starred in not one, but two films at Sundance in 2011: "Sound Of My Voice" and "Another Earth." She graduated valedictorian from Georgetown with a degree in Economics and famously turned down a job offer from Goldman Sachs by saying, "Thank you but I'm going to be an artist."
She has films coming out with Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon and Robert Redford and this year, she graced the highly-sought-after annual Vanity Fair Hollywood cover.
The Huffington Post sat down with Marling to discover that her fierce intelligence is softened by her willingness to believe that there is magic in the world.
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