Charlie McDowell

ABOUT CHARLIE MCDOWELL

Award-winning filmmaker and actor whose feature directorial debut The One I Love earned critical acclaim in 2014. He went on to direct and executive produce the 2019 series On Becoming a God in Central Florida.

He had an uncredited role on an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm in 2004.

A book based on his Twitter feed titled Dear Girls Above Me was published in 2013.

His mother is actress Mary Steenburgen and his father is actor Malcolm McDowell . He has a sister named Lilly and brothers named Beckett, Finnian and Seamus. In late 2019, he began dating actress Lily Collins . In September 2020, the two got engaged. The couple married in September 2021. They welcomed a daughter named Tove Jane in January 2025.

He directed Oscar-winner Robert Redford in the 2017 film The Discovery.