- Evgenia Peretz is known for Our Idiot Brother (2011), Juliet, Naked (2018) and Theo Who Lived (2016).
- RelativesJesse Peretz(Sibling)
- Sister of director Jesse Peretz.
- Daughter of former Harvard Professor and publisher/editor emeritus of The New Republic, Marty Peretz.
- Studied dramatic writing in the master's degree program at New York University, and has written for Vanity Fair magazine.
- One of four children, she and siblings, including Jesse, were raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Their mother, Anne Labouisse Fransworth Peretz, is a painter and psychotherapist and an heir to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune.
- [on her childhood with brother Jesse] He would put me down and drool on me. He went through a whole Grateful Dead hippie period where he was all, like, peace this, peace that, and then he was so violent toward me. I was so much smaller, but I thought that the intensity of my rage would overcome his strength, and I could claw his eyes out.
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