MARS (they/them) is an award-winning actor, writer & producer. As a child, MARS & their family immigrated to Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, as Jewish refugees from Russia. Dedicated to smashing the patriarchy, MARS Co-Founded Besties Make Movies. MARS has received several Best Actress nominations for their work in the award-winning short film JONES. Their film 2 WEEKS about asexuality premiered at the Oxford Film Festival, screened at NFMLA and won Best LGBT Short at Indie Short Fest and IndieX Film Fest. APPETITE, a short film they wrote and starred in, premiered at the Oxford Film Festival. The feature film Triple Threat in which they play one of the lead roles is now streaming on Peacock after taking home several awards on the festival circuit! This summer you can catch them as Jeanine in AppleTV+'s Presumed Innocent. Their script ZASHA, which they co-wrote, has been doing festivals and recently won Best Horror Short at the Oregon Short Film Festival.
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Biography from TMDB.
- Volgograd, USSR [now Russia]
- Actor and producer
- 6 on Motif · 18 credits in all
What are MARS's films like?
Across a limited sample of 3 Motif titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Bonds.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 3
Light 3 · Serious 0 · Dark 0
Grounded 3 · Stylized 0 · Heightened 0
Gentle 3 · Charged 0 · Intense 0
Steady 3 · Shifting 0 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 0 · Some laughs 2 · Funny 1
Slow burn 2 · Even-paced 1 · Relentless 0
Casual 3 · Engaged 0 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 2 · Affecting 1 · Heavy 0
Resolved 3 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 0
Roles they play
- Allyas Maggie in Triple Threat (2020)
Moods and endings
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch MARS's films?
As of October 24, 2026, all 6 Motif titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (3).
Subscription and free streaming for MARS's titles on Motif; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
18 credits, 6 with a Motif page.
The Better Sister(2025)
Midcredits score: 48th percentile of all shows
Deathless (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2024)
Awake (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2024)
Presumed Innocent(2024)
Midcredits score: 82nd percentile of all shows
Queen of Magic (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2024)
Ramona at Midlife(2025)
Midcredits score: 33rd percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Appetite (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2021)
Gaining & Losing (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2021)
Triple Threat(2020)
Midcredits score: 45th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Big Exit (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2020)
2 Weeks (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2020)
The Incoherents(2019)
Midcredits score: 38th percentile of all films
Engaged (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2019)
JONES (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2019)
Landing Up (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2018)
The Next Two Nights (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2016)
Made to Penetrate (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2014)
Midcredits score: 32nd percentile of all films
Career shape
A full career of 18 titles from 2009 to 2025.
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on Motif, shown from 5 scored.
How do MARS's films land?
Their typical Motif film has a Midcredits score in the 36th percentile, the median of all 4; across a limited sample of 3 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 36th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up1
- 25th to 49th5
Shape of the crowd
2 of their 6 titles are Divisive.
- Divisive2
- Cult Classic1
- Crowd Pleaser2
- Mixed1
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on Motif; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their Motif titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does MARS work with?
People who share at least 2 of MARS's Motif titles, grouped by what they did on them; Catherine Curtin shares the most, 2.
Actors
- Catherine CurtinShared titles: Ramona at Midlife (2025), Triple Threat (2020)See all 2 shared titles with Catherine Curtin
Producers
- Jackie SchwartzShared titles: Ramona at Midlife (2025), Triple Threat (2020)See all 2 shared titles with Jackie Schwartz
- Jeffrey WeberShared titles: Ramona at Midlife (2025), Triple Threat (2020)See all 2 shared titles with Jeffrey Weber
- Stacey MaltinShared titles: Ramona at Midlife (2025), Triple Threat (2020)See all 2 shared titles with Stacey Maltin
