Lindsay Beamish

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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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Early life

Beamish was born and raised in Los Angeles. [4] [ non-primary source needed ]

Career

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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