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'Queen's Gambit' Star Marielle Heller on Her Surprising Return to Her Acting Roots
11:30 AM PST 1/7/2021 by Bryn Sandberg
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The Netflix series features a breakout performance from Heller — a career pivot for the director, who already has three critically acclaimed films under her belt.
With her turn in The Queen's Gambit, Marielle Heller proved that she's just as talented in front of the camera as she is behind it. The director of such critically lauded films as The Diary of a Teenage Girl and A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood returned to her acting roots with a surprise part in Netflix's record-breaking miniseries about fictional chess prodigy Beth…
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