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 Harmon (played by Anya Taylor-Joy).
The role came about through Heller's friendship with the show's creator, Scott Frank, a longtime collaborator who served as one of her Sundance Lab advisers.
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