Mary Harron

Guest Speaker

Mary Harron's most recent production is a television movie Anna Nicole Smith. Starring Agnes Bruckner, Martin Landau and Virginia Madsen, ANNA NICOLE  premiered on Lifetime in June 2013.  Her most recent feature film was THE MOTH DIARIES, starring Sarah Bolger and Lily Cole, which world premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2011 and had its North American premiere at the Toronto Film Festival.

In 2005 she directed THE NOTORIOUS BETTIE PAGE starring Gretchen Mol, Lili Taylor and Jared Harris. The film debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2005 to critical acclaim. In 2000 she directed the internationally successful AMERICAN PSYCHO, which she adapted from Brett Easton Ellis’ notorious bestseller. For her work on this film, she was nominated for “Director of the Year” by the London Film Critics Circle.

Harron made her debut as a feature-film writer / director in 1996 with I SHOT ANDY WARHOL. The film won star Lili Taylor a Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival, and garnered an Independent Spirit Award nomination for best first feature film.  It was also chosen to open the “Un Certain Regard” section of the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. Harron has also directed episodes of many acclaimed television series including “Homicide,” “Oz,” “The L Word,”  “Six Feet Under” and “Big Love”.   

Harron was born in Bracebridge, Ontario and studied at Oxford. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, writer/director John C. Walsh (“Ed’s Next Move”, “Pipe Dream”, "Don't Ask Don't Tell") and their two daughters.