Weapons star Julia Garner's life off-screen including health battle and music star husband
Weapons is the latest big-screen horror to hit UK cinemas today (August 8), terrifying audiences with the tale of a group of children who vanish at exactly the same time on the same night.
The film is written and directed by Zach Cregger who was also the mind behind genre-bending horror Barbarian and 2025 thriller Companion. His latest project has already won rave early reviews from critics.
Brave cinema-goers watching Weapons today may wonder where they've seen the film's star, Julia Garner, before. The actress plays devoted teacher Justine Gandy who finds herself in the firing line when her entire class fails to show up for school.
What has Julia Garner been in?
Before Weapons, Garner already had a glittering CV in the world of film and TV. Her big breakout role was as fierce southerner Ruth Langmore in the long-running Netflix drama Ozark, in which she starred alongside acting heavyweights Jason Bateman and Laura Linney.
Her portrayal of Ruth won her three Emmy Awards in 2019, 2020 and 2022 in the Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series category. She was nominated for another Emmy in 2022 in the Lead Actress category for her role as con artist Anna Delvey in Netflix series Inventing Anna, but didn't scoop the win.
The 31-year-old star's other acting credits include roles in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Apartment 7A, Wolf Man and The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
Julia Garner's health battle
In a 2021 interview with W Magazine, Garner opened up about her struggles with epilepsy as a child, as well as battling with learning difficulties.
'I had really bad reading problems and learning disabilities, and I was also very sick as a child, with epilepsy,' she told the publication. 'I felt like everything that I said was stupid, so I just shut down."
However, she discovered that acting helped her come out of her shell and communicate in new ways. She explained: "When I took acting, I discovered that I could use someone else's lines and still express my own feelings.
"I loved that, because I felt like I was being heard. And not only that, I felt like I could hear myself for the first time.'
Who is Julia Garner's husband?
Garner married musician Mark Foster back in December 2019. Her famous spouse is the lead singer of the band Foster the People who had hits with Pumped Up Kicks, Call It What You Want and Don't Stop.
The pair had their first meeting at the Sundance Film Festival and they got engaged during a road trip to Yellowstone National Park. Despite plans to wed in 2020, Garner hurried things along and they ended up getting married at Christmas time at New York's City Hall - the same place her own parents had tied the knot.
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