Elizabeth Marvel

Personal context

Summary

Elizabeth Marvel is an American actor known for stage work and television roles in House of Cards and Homeland, along with film roles in Lincoln and The Meyerowitz Stories. She often plays formidable, authoritative women, though her work spans a wide range of characters. She supported Hillary Clinton and took part in a public pantsuit performance honoring Clinton’s campaign; she has also said she is proud to portray strong, independent women and welcomed more women working behind the camera. She helped create The Ford/Hill Project, a theater piece based on the Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford hearings, describing it as a way to share recent American history. No public record of DEI affiliations or advocacy focused on race or sexuality is established.