Miranda July
Director
Screenwriter, director and actress who wrote, starred in, and directed the 2005 film Me and You and Everyone We Know and the 2011 film The Future.
She briefly attended the University of California at Santa Cruz, but dropped out of school to pursue a career as a Portland, Oregon-based performance artist.
She was at the top of Filmmaker Magazine's list of "25 New Faces of Indie Film" in 2004.
She married director
She acted alongside Billy Crudup in the film Jesus' Son in 1999.