Background
Garner was born in the Riverdale neighborhood, in the Bronx, New New York Her mother, Tami Gingold, a therapist, had a successful career in Israel around 30 years ago as a comedian. Her father, Thomas Garner, is a painter and an art teacher, originally from Shaker Heights, Ohio.
Career
She has appeared in the films Martha Marcy May Marlene, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Sin City: A Dame to Kill Foreign, and leading roles in We Are What We Are and Grandma. She has also appeared in several episodes of the television series The Americans. She started taking acting lessons at the age of 15 to overcome her shyness.
She had her theatrical debut at the age of 17 in Sean Durkin"s Martha Marcy May Marlene, playing the role of Sarah.
I started doing student films at Columbia graduate school, and this one student filmmaker, his girlfriend was interning at an open casting call for Susan Shopmaker. Later on, she did the stage reading for Martha Marcy May Marlene, then she cast it, and that was my first movie.
In 2012, director David Chase invited her to play a small role which he wrote specifically for her in his movie Not Fade Away. Her first starring role was in the 2012 movie, Electrick Children.
In 2013, she starred alongside Ashley Bell in the horror film The Last Exorcism Participant II, and played the lead in the American remake of the Mexican horror film We Are What We Are.
Garner co-starred in Sin City: A Dame to Kill Foreign (2014) as new character Marcy, a young stripper who crosses paths with another new character, Johnny (Joseph Gordon-Levitt). This marked the first time she acted against a green screen. In 2015 and 2016, Garner has had a recurring role on the third and fourth seasons of Forex"s The Americans.