Beth Gallagher

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Beth Gallagher
Alma mater Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
OccupationActress
Years active2010–present
Known for To Fall in Love and its film adaptation
AwardsBest Actress in a Lead Role at 13th Oceanside International Film Festival
Website beth-gallagher.com

Beth Gallagher is an American actress who starred in the play To Fall in Love (2017) and the 2023 film adaptation of the same name. She portrayed Amelia Earhart in a stage production and Shelley Duvall in a parody short film. Gallagher was nominated for Best Actress at the 2017 GI Film Festival San Diego and won Best Actress in a Lead Role at the 13th Oceanside International Film Festival in 2024.

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Personal life

Gallagher graduated from Royal Conservatoire of Scotland with a Masters in Acting. She studied the Meisner and Chekhov techniques. [1]

Career

In 2010, Gallagher played Agnes in a production of Anita Bryant Died for Your Sins at Diversionary Theatre in San Diego, California. [2] In 2015, she co-starred with Whitney Shay and Alexandra Slade in a University of California, San Diego production called San Diego, I Love You 3.0. [3] In 2016, she portrayed Amelia Earhart in Amelia Lives, a production at American History Theater. [4]

Gallagher co-starred as Merryn in To Fall in Love by Jennifer Lane, which debuted at the 2017 San Diego International Fringe Festival. [5] [6] [7] She reprised her role in a Pacific Beach production that same year, [8] at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, [9] a 2018 film by Michael Lewis Foster and the 2023 remake. [7]

In 2022, Gallagher was cast in a three-person zoom play called Three Years and 18 Months. [10]

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
2016Slap WorthyGirlfriend
2017RefugeBeth 'Catie' SimpsonShort film with Caroline Amiguet, Aimee La Joie, Karenssa LeGear [11]
Jordan Hates the Writing Shelley Duvall Short film parody of The Shining
Safe with MeShort film
2018 To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This Merryn
2019 In the Absence of Eden AriannaShort film
2021 The 5th of April CourtneyShort film
SidesBethAlso story credit and producer, web series, 10 episodes, directed by Michael Lewis Foster and written by Jordan Jacobo
Sunken HolidayShort film selected for Cannes Short Film Corner 2022 [12]
2023 To Fall in Love Merryn
TBASincerely Saul†Elizabeth
Key
†Denotes films that have not yet been released

Accolades

Festival / EventYearAwardTitleResultRef.
GI Film Festival San Diego 2017Best ActressRefugeNominated [11]
Oceanside International Film Festival 2024 Best Actress in a Lead Role To Fall in Love Won [13]

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