Jenée LaMarque (born February 2, 1980, in West Covina, California) is an American writer and director, known for The Pretty One (2013), Spoonful (2012) and The Feels (2018).
Career
LaMarque acted in local theatre while growing up in Claremont, California. She got a degree in English with a creative writing emphasis in poetry from Stanford University. Screenwriting proved to be the combination of these two interests. She took UCLA extension classes in Screenwriting, before getting her MFA in Screenwriting from the AFI Conservatory. At AFI she wrote The Pretty One. LaMarque wrote and directed the short Spoonful, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012. The Pretty One script was on The Black List in 2011, which helped LaMarque enlist top talent like Zoe Kazan playing both twins, and Jake Johnson, who plays her love interest. LaMarque was a finalist for the Tribeca Film Festival's award "The Nora" in 2013. The Pretty One was nominated for the 2014 Best Movie By a Woman by the Women Film Critics Circle. The Pretty One won Best Narrative Feature and Jenée won Best Director at the 2013 Savannah Film Festival.
Jenée's second feature The Feels starring Constance Wu, Angela Trimbur and Ever Mainard premiered in competition at The 2017 Seattle Film Festival. The Feels’ Ever Mainard won Best Actress at the 2017 Outfest and won Best Narrative Feature at the 2017 NewFest.
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Spoonful | Director, writer | Short film |
| 2013 | The Pretty One | ||
| 2018 | The Feels | Co-wrote with Lauren Parks Played Nikki |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019–20 | Vida | Director | 7 episodes |
| Room 104 | Director, writer | Wrote and directed "Rogue", "Bangs", and "The Night Babby Died" | |
| 2019 | Sorry for Your Loss | Director | "Thirty Years" |
| 2020 | Party of Five | "Authentic Mexican" | |
| 2021 | Run the World | "Plus Ones", "What You Wish For", and "Almost, Lady, Almost!" | |
| 2022 | As We See It | "Please Don't Leave" | |
| 2022–23 | Julia | 4 episodes | |
| 2022 | P-Valley | "Snow" | |
| Dead to Me | "Look at What We Have Here" and "Where Do We Go Now?" | ||
| 2023 | The Big Door Prize | "Giorgio" and "Izzy" |
Personal life
LaMarque has been married to Julian Wass since November 4, 2006. They have two children. She is Mexican American.
See also
References
- "'The Feels': Constance Wu Stars in Lesbian Comedy That Amusingly Untangles Differences Between the Sexes — Watch". 7 June 2017.
- Leow, Kelly (6 February 2014). "The Pretty One: An interview with writer-director Jenée LaMarque". MovieMaker.com. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
- Kang, Inkoo. "The Pretty One Director Jenee LaMarque on Her Twin Obsession and Her Inspiration to Make Her Debut Feature". Indie Wire. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
- Labarba, Annie. "Tribeca Prize Honors Nora Ephron". New York Women in Film & Television. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
- "The Pretty One (2013) - IMDb". IMDb.
- "Outfest Los Angeles Announces Award Winners for 2017 LGBT FILM FESTIVAL".
- "Exclusive: Announcing the Award-Winning Films from NewFest 2017". 27 October 2017.
- "Emerging Latino Voices Get to the Point: Short Films at Sundance". HuffPost. 24 January 2012.