Miranda July

American performance artist, musician and writer · United States · On the map · Musicians · Born 1974 · age 52

Miranda July is an American film director, screenwriter, actress and author. Her body of work includes film, fiction, monologue, digital presentations and live performance art.

Miranda July is read about 426 times a day, in 30 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 104 days, one point a day.

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A life in dates

2025Guggenheim FellowshipAwardTime 100Award2011“I’m totally not kidding. … Life is too short. This is all too hard to do to actually be kidding about the whole thing.”In their words14 July 2011As quoted in "Miranda July Is Totally Not Kidding" by Katrina Onstad, in The New York TimesRead the whole statement

2007“What I like best is the kind of complicated messed up truth, you know … the one that's so imperfect that you know it's true.”In their words24 August 2007Video : "Pretty Cool People Interviews - Miranda July"Read the whole statement

2005“I pressed my lips against his ear and whispered, again, It's not your fault. Perhaps this was really the only thing I had ever wanted to say to anyone, and be told.”In their words"The Shared Patio " in Zoetrope All-Story, Vol. 9, No. 4 (Winter 2005)Read the whole statement

“Common sense and the truth should feel authorless, writ by time itself. It is actually really hard to write something that will make a terminally ill person feel better.”In their words"The Shared Patio " in Zoetrope All-Story, Vol. 9, No. 4 (Winter 2005)Read the whole statement

2004“It was a tiny sound but it woke me up because it was a human sound.”In their words"The Man on the Stairs" in Fence (Spring/Summer 2004)Read the whole statement

2003“Now began the part of her life where she was just very beautiful. Except for nothing. Only winners will know what this feels like.”In their words"Birthmark" in Paris Review (Spring 2003)Read the whole statement

1974Born15 February 1974

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July reading at Modern Times Bookstore in San Francisco (c. 2007)

July at the San Francisco Cinematheque fundraiser at Theater Artaud, 2006

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Miranda July

4 statements, newest first

I think there’s something spiritual in a very day-to-day, mundane existence. It’s impossible to articulate, and it’s happening now, almost like a perverse secret. . . .
14 July 2011 · As quoted in "Miranda July Is Totally Not Kidding" by Katrina Onstad, in The New York Times, Own words
Do you have doubts about life? Are you unsure if it is really worth the trouble? Look at the sky: that is for you.
2005 · "The Shared Patio " in Zoetrope All-Story, Vol. 9, No. 4 (Winter 2005), Own words
That is my problem with life, I just rush through it, like I'm being chased. Even things whose whole point is slowness, like drinking relaxing tea.
2004 · "The Man on the Stairs" in Fence (Spring/Summer 2004), Own words

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Awards

Guggenheim Fellowship2025

Time 1002025

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United States

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In the same film or series as Miranda

Carrie BrownsteinAlso in Getting Stronger Every Day (2001)