"I really like Shakespeare a lot. The characters that he writes for females, I think, are really great and a lot more compelling than what modern writers write, which is weird because they didn't have actresses then."
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Film directors from the United StatesColumbia University alumniFeminists from the United StatesActresses from New York CityWomen born in the 1980s
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