Clea Duvall

Clea DuVall was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She began working as an actor at 18, and quickly became a fixture in both TV and film. Some of her credits include the Academy Award winning film “Argo” (directed by and starring Ben Affleck), “21 Grams” (starring Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, and Benicio Del Toro), “Girl Interrupted” (starring Angelina Jolie), HBO’s Emmy Award winning series “Carnivale,” AMC's Emmy nominated show “Better Call Saul,” and FX’s “American Horror Story: Asylum.” In 2012, DuVall began working behind the camera, directing a series of videos for Warner Bros. Records Grammy nominated artists, Tegan and Sara, for the release of their album “Heartthrob.” DuVall also directed a music video for the band, Echosmith for their song, “Talking Dreams.” Over the past 10 years, she has been honing that craft of writing, with direction and guidance from the immensely talented pool of writers and directors she has had the pleasure and privilege of working with. DuVall still resides in Los Angeles. ABOUT THE INTERVENTION, OPENING IN THEATERS AUGUST 26th (ARTICLE FROM INDIEWIRE) We’ve all seen various versions of interventions in movies and television shows. They never go as smoothly as the interveners would like, often turning into a mess of hilarious awkwardness and touchy drama. Filmmaker Clea DuVall has taken those ideas and amplified them as the entire premise of her latest film “The Intervention,” which looks to be a fun, awkward ride with a great ensemble cast. The film premiered at Sundance this past January, where star Melanie Lynskey winning the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Individual Performance. Written and directed by DuVall, “The Intervention” stars DuVall, Lynskey, Natasha Lyonne, Vincent Piazza, Jason Ritter, Ben Schwartz, Alia Shawkat and Cobie Smulders. The film follows Lynskey as “control freak bride-to-be Annie” as she brings together her closeknit group of thirtysomething friends to stage an ill-advised intervention with Ruby (Smulders) and her workaholic husband, Peter (Piazza), convinced that their relationship is bringing everyone down. As the eponymous intervention unfolds, plenty of hard truths are revealed, lots of laughs are had and the group’s dynamics keep amusingly and authentically shifting.