Personal
Gillies grew up in New York City. She is the daughter of Linda and Archibald Gillies. She graduated from New York University with a BFA in Film. According to an August 24, 2012 interview on internet radio/podcast The Majority Report show with Sam Seder, she went to Rhode Island School of Design as a freshman before dropping out to film "Metropolitan." She finished college at NYU.
She was married to DeSales Harrsion, an English professor at Oberlin, from 1999 to 2005.
Gillies met Peter Lattman, then a Wall Street Journal reporter and now at The New York Times, on a play date with their children in Central Park. They married on October 13, 2007.
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