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Beanie Feldstein

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Elizabeth Greer "Beanie" Feldstein is an American actress. She first gained recognition for her starring roles in the comedy film Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016), the comedy-drama film Lady Bird (2017), and the coming-of-age comedy film Booksmart (2019), the latter of which earned her a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Comedy or Musical.

Feldstein has also appeared on the Broadway stage, making her debut as Minnie Fay in Hello, Dolly! (2017-18) and then portraying the lead role of Fanny Brice in the first revival of Funny Girl (2022), a performance for which she earned a nomination for the Drama League Award for Distinguished Performance. In 2021, she portrayed Monica Lewinsky in the third season of the FX anthology series American Crime Story: Impeachment.
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Younger sister of actor Jonah Hill and music manager Jordan Feldstein.
Beanie Feldstein and Ben Platt first met at a Bat Mitzvah when they were in their young teens and have been best friends since they were in ninth grade together at Los Angeles's Harvard-Westlake School. In 2017, Platt and Feldstein were simultaneously both performers in Broadway musicals--Platt in "Dear Evan Hansen" and Feldstein in "Hello, Dolly".
Father was the tour accountant for Guns N' Roses.
Beanie was very briefly related by marriage to Clint Eastwood. In November 2013 her older brother Jordan was married for about a week and a half to Francesca Eastwood, the daughter of Clint Eastwood and Frances Fisher. The marriage was annulled.
Graduated from Wesleyan.

[Explaining how she got her family nickname, "Beanie"] My given name is Elizabeth, and I had a British nanny for the first five years of my life. Elizabeth was the name of the girl she used to nanny in England. She was from England-the queen, you know, there are a lot of Elizabeths in England-and Elizabeanie was what their family called the girl she used to nanny. And so she started calling me Elizabeanie, and I have two older brothers, and they're like, "Let's just call her Beanie! Let's just call her Beanie." And like, if you call a dog Spot but its name is Spike, it's just gonna respond to Spot, so I just always responded to Beanie. Since I was like, two years old, it was just exclusively Beanie. And I think it was, as we say in Yiddish, bashert, which means "meant to be," because it really fits me and I love it. I couldn't be more thankful for it. I think it's great.

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