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American actress and professor From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lindsay Beamish is an American actress and professor, best known for her roles as Severin in Shortbus[1] and Jamie in Forgetting the Girl. As of 2015, she teaches at Emerson College and graduated from UC Santa Cruz.[2][3]
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Occupation | Actress |
Beamish was born and raised in Los Angeles.[4][non-primary source needed]
Beamish began acting early, starring in TV movies as a child during the 1980s, before finding series work on television in the 2000s, making appearances on CSI, Gilmore Girls, and Six Feet Under.[5]
From the late 1990s to the mid 2000s, Beamish starred in Miranda July's Nest of Tens.[6]
Her role in Shortbus was praised by David Ansen in Newsweek, who said "Beamish's conflicted dominatrix stands out for her understatement, she understands nuance and stillness."[7] Beamish was nominated for a Gotham Award[8] and made appearances at the Cannes International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival,[9] Chicago International Film Festival, and the Bergen International Film Festival.[10]
In 2013, Beamish starred in Nate Taylor's Forgetting the Girl, her performance praised by David DeWitt in The New York Times.[11] While attending grad school at UC Davis, Beamish devised, directed and starred in the multi-media performance 38 1/2, and Wigs,[12] created with and co-starring Amanda Vitiello. In 2018, she starred in the Apollinaire Theater Company's production of Roland Schimmelpfennig's Winter Solstice.[13] In 2019, Beamish and Vanessa Peters wrote, directed and starred in the award-winning[14] The Institute for the Opposite of Longing, which ran for multiple dates in Boston[15] and Los Angeles.[16]
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