Ozark May Have Won Her the Emmy (Again!), but Julia Garner Has Had Plenty of Other Roles

Garner’s first lead role was in this 2012 indie film, where she plays Rachel, a 15-year-old girl from a fundamentalist Mormon community in Utah who – after learning that she is expecting – believes she became pregnant by listening to a song on a cassette tape.

In this 2013 horror flick, Garner plays Rose, a young woman whose mother dies unexpectedly and under curious circumstances, and whose father seems to be slowly unraveling following her death.

This 2013 supernatural drama is a sequel to 2010’s The Last Exorcism, and Garner plays the friend of Nell (a role reprised from the last film by Ashley Bell) who, along with her other friends, stands witness to the demonic inner forces that take over her friend.

Garner stars alongside Lily Tomlin in this dramedy as Sage, a teen who goes to her lesbian, widowed, poet grandmother to ask for money to pay for an abortion, and her grandmother helps her raise the money through a crowdfunding effort.

Garner joined the cast of the FX period spy thriller series in its third season as Kimberly, or “Kimmy,” the daughter of the head of the CIA’s Afghan group who has some major daddy issues.

In this 2016 comedy, Garner plays Tinsley, a young woman who befriends (and eventually becomes romantically involved with) an MMA instructor who goes by “The Lion” and who’s on a mission to have a wild Summer before his first year of college.

This 2017 drama costars Garner and Juno Temple as Catherine and Iris, college-age childhood friends who spend a Summer coping with the death of a mutual friend, who died in a car accident that almost claimed both their lives as well.

In this Netflix psychological miniseries, Garner plays Ellie, whose death in a car accident haunts her sister Annie (played by Emma Stone), as she feels largely responsible for it.

Garner is perhaps best known for playing Ruth in Ozark, a 19-year-old woman from a crime-ridden family who unexpectedly partners with a financial adviser from Chicago (played by Jason Bateman), who is forced into money laundering in the Missouri Ozarks.

Garner scored rave reviews as the star of the tense 2019 drama The Assistant, a “day in the life” story inspired by the Harvey Weinstein scandal.