American stage and screen actor Elizabeth Marvel can currently be seen on HBO in Native Son, adapted by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks. The film was the first sale at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Additionally, Elizabeth can be seen every night playing ‘Goneril’ in the Scott Rudin produced Broadway revival of King Lear starring Glenda Jackson.
In the Fall, Elizabeth will appear in the Netflix limited series Unbelievable, produced by Katie Couric which is based on The Marshall Project and ProPublica Pulitzer Prize-winning article, “An Unbelievable Story of Rape.” She also recently completed shooting the independent films All The Little Things We Kill, directed by Adam Neutzsky-Wulff and Swallow, Executive Produced by Joe Wright which will debut at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival. Previously, Elizabeth co-starred in Nicole Holofcener’s The Land of Steady Habits opposite Ben Mendelsohn and Edie Falco, as well as Noah Baumbach’s highly-lauded The Meyerowitz Stories, for Netflix opposite Adam Sandler, Dustin Hoffman and Ben Stiller.
Elizabeth is perhaps best known to television audiences as ‘President Elizabeth Keene’ on the hit Showtime series Homeland and ‘Heather Dunbar’ on the Netflix series House of Cards. Other notable series regular roles include The District for CBS and Lights Out for FX. She has depicted recurring roles on Manifest, Fargo, Law and Order: SVU, and Person of Interest and has also appeared in episodes of Nurse Jackie, 30 Rock, The Good Wife, The Newsroom, White Collar, and Elementary.
An integral part of the New York Theater scene, Marvel portrayed ‘Marc Anthony’ in Shakespeare in the Park’s ground-breaking production of Julius Caesar. She has won four Obie Awards for her work Off-Broadway, most notably for her role of ‘Hedda Gabler’ in Ivo Van Hove’s 2004 revival of the play. She also received a Drama Desk Award Nomination for her performance in Fifty Words. Of Marvel’s numerous Broadway roles, perhaps her most celebrated was that of ‘Brooke Wyeth,’ which she originated in the Off-Broadway production of Other Desert Cities.
In film, Marvel has had memorable roles in the Coen brothers’ True Grit and Burn After Reading, Spielberg’s Lincoln, Tony Gilroy’s Bourne Legacy, Roger Michell’s Hyde Park on Hudson, J.C. Chandor’s A Most Violent Year and Cameron Crowe’s Aloha.
A graduate of Julliard, Marvel resides in Brooklyn, New York.