Feature Film Credits
Selected theatrical motion pictures and studio productions.
2020s
Yes Day
Allison Torres · also producer
A Netflix family comedy in which parents Allison and Carlos (Garner and Édgar Ramírez), worn down by always saying no, agree to a 24-hour "Yes Day" where their three kids make the rules — with predictably chaotic results. Garner also produced.
The Adam Project
Ellie Reed
In this Netflix sci-fi adventure, a time-traveling fighter pilot (Ryan Reynolds) crash-lands in his own past and teams up with his 12-year-old self to rescue their father and save the future. Garner plays Ellie Reed, Adam's mother, holding the family together on the ground.
Family Switch
Jess Walker · also producer
A body-swap holiday comedy in which a rare cosmic alignment causes mother Jess (Garner), father Bill (Ed Helms) and their two kids to wake up in each other’s bodies the morning of the most important day of each of their lives. Garner also produced.
Deadpool & Wolverine
Elektra Natchios
Garner returns as Elektra Natchios in this MCU crossover, joining a roster of returning Marvel characters recruited to fight alongside Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) and Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) to save a dying universe — twenty-one years after she first played the role in Daredevil.
2010s
Butter
Laura Pickler · also producer
A satirical comedy set around Iowa's fiercely competitive world of butter carving, with Garner as the ruthlessly ambitious Laura Pickler, determined to win the state championship her husband dominated for years — until an unlikely ten-year-old rival enters the contest. Garner also produced.
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
Cindy Green
A Disney family fantasy about a couple unable to have children who bury a box of their hopes and wishes in the garden — and wake to find a mysterious child has grown there overnight. Garner plays Cindy Green, whose family learns what it means to love without holding on too tightly.
Dallas Buyers Club
Dr. Eve Saks
Garner plays Dr. Eve Saks, a physician who comes to challenge her hospital's rigid protocols alongside Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey), an electrician diagnosed with AIDS who smuggles unapproved medication into Texas to treat himself and others. The film won two Academy Awards.
Draft Day
Ali Parker
Set almost entirely on the day of the NFL Draft, this sports drama follows Cleveland Browns GM Sonny Weaver Jr. (Kevin Costner) as he makes a franchise-defining trade. Garner plays Ali Parker, the team’s salary-cap chief and Sonny’s partner, navigating both the deal and their relationship in real time.
Miracles from Heaven
Christy Beam
Based on a true story, Garner leads as Christy Beam, a mother fighting to find a cure for her young daughter's rare, incurable digestive disorder — and whose family's faith is tested and transformed after a freak accident leads to an unexplained recovery.
Love, Simon
Emily Spier
A landmark studio teen romance about Simon Spier, a closeted gay high schooler navigating first love over anonymous emails while keeping his identity secret from his friends and family. Garner plays Emily, Simon’s warm, perceptive mother.
Peppermint
Riley North
Garner leads this action-thriller as Riley North, a mother who awakens from a coma five years after her husband and daughter are murdered by a drug cartel — and, failed by a corrupt justice system, sets out on a one-woman campaign of vengeance. A hard pivot into physical action for Garner.
2000s
Catch Me If You Can
Cheryl Ann
Steven Spielberg's true-crime drama follows con artist Frank Abagnale Jr. (Leonardo DiCaprio), who forged millions of dollars in checks while posing as a pilot, doctor and lawyer, and the FBI agent (Tom Hanks) who pursues him. Garner appears as Cheryl Ann, one of the young women drawn into Frank's world of charm and deception.
Daredevil
Elektra Natchios
Garner made her leading-lady film debut as Elektra Natchios opposite Ben Affleck in this Marvel adaptation, playing a formidable martial artist who becomes both love interest and adversary to blind vigilante lawyer Matt Murdock. The role launched Elektra as a franchise character in her own right.
13 Going on 30
Jenna Rink
Garner's breakout comedic lead: a 13-year-old girl who wishes herself “30, flirty and thriving” and wakes up as a successful magazine editor in an adult life she doesn't recognize. The film became a defining romantic comedy of the 2000s and one of Garner's most beloved performances.
Elektra
Elektra Natchios
A Daredevil spin-off built around Garner, resurrecting Elektra Natchios as a resurrected assassin-for-hire who is contracted to kill a single father and his daughter — only to end up protecting them instead. It marked one of the first female-led superhero films from a major studio.
The Kingdom
Janet Mayes
A tense action-thriller in which an FBI team, including Garner as forensics expert Janet Mayes, is sent to Saudi Arabia to investigate a deadly terrorist bombing that killed American workers, navigating diplomatic tension and danger to find those responsible.
Juno
Vanessa Loring
In Jason Reitman's Oscar-winning comedy-drama, Garner plays Vanessa Loring, a woman hoping to adopt the baby of unexpectedly pregnant teenager Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page). Her quietly aching performance as a woman who wants to be a mother became one of the film's emotional anchors.
The Invention of Lying
Anna McDoogles
A high-concept comedy set in a world where no one has ever lied — until one man (Ricky Gervais) discovers he can. Garner plays Anna, the woman he loves, whose brutal honesty about his prospects only makes his gift more complicated.
Broadcast & Streaming Work
Alias
Sydney Bristow
J.J. Abrams' spy action-thriller and Garner's breakout role — a graduate student secretly working as a double agent for the CIA inside the criminal organization she believed she served. The role earned her a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors Guild Award and four consecutive Emmy nominations.
Felicity
Hannah Bibb
One of Garner’s earliest television roles, on the J.J. Abrams and Matt Reeves coming-of-age drama about a young woman (Keri Russell) who follows a high school crush across the country to college in New York City.
Camping
Kathryn McSorley-Jodell
An HBO dark comedy from Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner, adapted from the British series of the same name. Garner plays Kathryn, a controlling wife orchestrating an elaborate — and disastrous — camping trip for her husband’s 45th birthday.
Llama Llama
Mama Llama · voice
A Netflix animated series for young children based on Anna Dewdney’s bestselling picture books, following a young llama’s everyday adventures and big feelings. Garner voices Mama Llama.
Upload
Officer Jennifer Garner
A surprise voice cameo in Greg Daniels' Amazon Prime sci-fi comedy about a man uploaded into a virtual afterlife after a car accident. In the season finale, Garner voices “Officer Jennifer Garner,” an automated 911 dispatch system — a gag inspired by her own viral tribute to Daniels' earlier show, The Office.
Party Down
Evie Adler
Garner joined the long-awaited third season of Starz’s cult catering-crew comedy as Evie Adler, a film producer reevaluating her life and career who becomes an unexpected romantic entanglement for the crew’s reluctant leader, Henry.
The Last Thing He Told Me
Hannah Hall · also executive producer
Based on Laura Dave’s bestselling novel, this Apple TV+ mystery thriller stars Garner as Hannah Hall, whose husband vanishes overnight — leaving her to piece together his hidden past alongside the teenage stepdaughter she barely knows. Garner also executive produces.