Occupation Actress, writer | Years active 2014–present | |
Movies American Honey, Heaven Knows What Nominations Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Actor Similar McCaul Lombardi, Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie, Sasha Lane, Veronica Ezell | ||
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Arielle Holmes is an American actress and writer best known for starring as a lightly fictionalized version of herself in the film Heaven Knows What.
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- Caleb landry jones and arielle holmes heaven knows what the morning show interview
- Arielle holmes
- Early life
- Drug use and homelessness
- Career
- Personal life
- References
Arielle holmes
Early life
Holmes is from Bayonne, New Jersey. Her father is an Irish national and was not part of her upbringing. She was raised mostly by relatives in New Jersey.
Drug use and homelessness
Holmes' first experience with crack cocaine was when she smoked with her mother at the age of 12. She dropped out of school in the 10th grade. After leaving school, she moved to New York City to live with her boyfriend Ilya Leontyev. The two fell into heavy drug and alcohol abuse, with Holmes first trying heroin at the age of 17. She was largely homeless for the next three years.
Career
Holmes was discovered by Josh and Benny Safdie, the directors of Heaven Knows What, in Manhattan's Diamond District while they were working on another film. She had been hired as an unpaid intern by a jeweler after he saw her sketching on a Subway train.
Intrigued by Holmes' life story, Josh encouraged Arielle to write a memoir, paying her by the page. The resulting unpublished memoir, Mad Love in New York City, served as the basis for Heaven Knows What.
In June 2015, it was announced that Holmes had been cast in Andrea Arnold's American Honey. She will then appear in 2307: Winters Dream, directed by Joey Curtis.
Personal life
Upon the completion of Heaven Knows What, Holmes asked the Safdie brothers to assist her rehabilitation. She received treatment at Lucida on the Intracoastal Waterway in Florida.
