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Josephine Decker

Highest Rated: 88% Madeline's Madeline (2018)

Lowest Rated: 60% Uncle Kent (2011)

Birthday: Apr 2, 1981

Birthplace: Not Available

American filmmaker and actor Josephine Decker was born on April 2, 1981. Raised in Texas, Decker grew up practicing Christianity but turned to Buddhism in her adult life. She graduated from Princeton University in 2003 and began her careering helping to produce documentaries for television channels like Discovery and A&E. Decker made her first short film, "Naked Princeton," in 2005, and co-directed her first feature with Brittany Blockman, a documentary about bisexuality titled "Bi the Way," in 2008. She received some media attention in 2010 when she was escorted out of the Museum of Modern Art by security after she undressed and exposed herself to performance artist Marina Abramovic. Decker later said she was trying to be "as vulnerable to [Abramovic] as she constantly makes herself to us." She made her film acting debut in "Uncle Kent" (2011), her first of many collaborations with indie director and actor Joe Swanberg, either with her or Swanberg in the directing chair and the other appearing on screen. In fact, she appeared in two Swanberg movies in 2011, the second being "Art History." Decker then made her second feature, "Butter on the Latch" (2013), a progenitor of her now signature dark thriller style. Touring on festival circuits the same year as her next film, "Thou Wast Wild and Lovely" (2014, which also starred Swanberg), both "Butter on the Latch" and the latter received critical acclaim; both films made it onto Richard Brody of The New Yorker's top ten films of 2014 list, at tenth and second, respectively. In 2018, Decker's film "Madeline's Madeline" premiered at Sundance Film Festival to high praise, giving her the most media attention she had received and making "Madeline's Madeline" her most high-profile film to date. Decker cited John Steinbeck's "East of Eden," frequent collaborator Swanberg, and films like "Antichrist" (2009) and "Black Swan" (2010) as influences.

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Highest-Rated Movies

88% 43% Madeline's Madeline Watchlist 88% 54% Shirley Watchlist
80% 29% Butter on the Latch
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75% Once Upon a River Watchlist
75% 57% Loves Her Gun
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74% 41% Thou Wast Mild and Lovely
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67% 40% Flames Watchlist 64% 59% The Sky is Everywhere Watchlist
60% 44% Uncle Kent
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Filmography

Movies TV Shows
The Sky is Everywhere 64% 59% 2022 Director, Producer Shirley 88% 54% 2020 Director Once Upon a River 75% 2019 Joanna Murray Actor Madeline's Madeline 88% 43% 2018 Director, Screenwriter, Film Editing The Mask Task 2018 Director, Screenwriter Tormenting the Hen 2017 Sarah Actor Flames 67% 40% 2017 Self, Director, Writer Hank Patterson and the Mystery of the Cutty Rain Brown Trout 2016 Josephine Actor Collective: Unconscious 2016 Director, Screenwriter, Film Editing Sisters of the Plague 2016 Jo Actor First Day Out 2016 Director Abby Singer/Songwriter 2015 Hirer Actor Rosehill 2015 Alice Actor Thou Wast Mild and Lovely 74% 41% 2014 Director, Screenwriter, Film Editing Butter on the Latch 80% 29% 2013 Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Film Editing Black Box 2013 Holly Actor Loves Her Gun 75% 57% 2013 Charlotte Actor Saturday Morning Mystery 27% 2012 Gwen Actor Richard's Wedding 71% 2012 Phoebe Actor Uncle Kent 60% 44% 2011 Actor Art History 31% 2011 Juliette Actor Bi the Way 2008 Director, Writer, Cinematographer, Film Editing
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