Join us for a screening of Netflix's Glow, Episode 105, followed by a Q&A with Betty Gilpin.
Moderated by Jessica Shaw, Host of EW Morning Live on Sirius XM.
Estimated program end time: 8:00 PM
SYNOPSIS
Inspired by the short-lived but beloved show from the 80s, Glow tells the fictional story of Ruth Wilder (Alison Brie), an out-of-work, struggling actress in 1980s Los Angeles who finds one last chance for stardom when she’s thrust into the glitter and spandex world of women's wrestling. In addition to working with 12 Hollywood misfits, Ruth also has to compete with Debbie Eagan (Betty Gilpin ) a former soap actress who left the business to have a baby, only to be sucked back into work when her picture perfect life is not what it seems. And at the wheel is Sam Sylvia (Marc Maron), a washed-up, B-movie director who now must lead this group of women on the journey to wrestling stardom.
PANELIST BIO
Betty Gilpin
In television, film, and theatre, Betty Gilpin has established herself as one of the industry’s most exciting actresses. After her outstanding breakout performance in the critically praised, Emmy and Critic’s Choice Award nominated, Netflix’s hit series, G.L.O.W., Gilpin was recently nominated for a Emmy Award for ‘Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series’ and has previously been nominated for a Critics Choice Award for ‘Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series,’ as well as a Screen Actors Guild Award for ‘Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series.’
Created by Liz Flahive (Nurse Jackie) and Carly Mensch and executive produced by Jenji Kohan (Orange is the New Black), Gilpin appears as Debbie "Liberty Bell" Eagan, starring opposite Alison Brie and Marc Maron. Based on the 1980s professional wrestling league, the series delves into the personal and professional lives of a group of women who perform in a promotional wrestling organization called the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling. Following its season one release in June 2017, the show acquired massive critical acclaim and viewership and as a result, it was unsurprisingly renewed for a second season, which premiered in June 2018.
On television, Gilpin is also notable for portraying Doctor Carrie Roman in the Golden Globe nominated show Nurse Jackie and has recently recurred on the first season of Starz’s critically acclaimed show, American Gods, leaving her mark as Audrey, the scorned and vengeful wife of Shadow Moon’s best friend.
Additional television credits include Masters of Sex, Elementary, The Good Wife, Past Life, The Unusuals, Possible Side Effects, Fringe, New Amsterdam, Law & Order: SVU, Medium, Sherlock, and the Civil War based PBS miniseries, Mercy West.
On screen, Gilpin can be seen in the films True Story, alongside James Franco and Jonah Hill, Ghost Town with Ricky Gervais, Take Care, Death in Love, The Northern Kingdom, and Beach Pillows.
Gilpin can be seen next in New Line Cinema’s comedy Isn't It Romantic as Whitney, starring opposite Rebel Wilson, Liam Hemsworth, Adam Devine, and Priyanka Chopra. Directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson, the story centers around a cynical woman (Wilson) who does not believe in love and who wakes up one day to find herself trapped inside a romantic comedy. The film has a release date of February 14, 2019 and will be distributed by Warner Brothers.
Additionally, Gilpin will be seen next in Twentieth Century Fox’s comedy, Stuber, starring opposite Mira Sorvino, Kumail Nanjiani, Dave Bautista, and Natalie Morales. The story centers on a detective who recruits his Uber driver into an unexpected night of adventure. The film recently wrapped from production and is set to release in 2019.
Gilpin will also appear in the upcoming supernatural reboot of The Grudge. The fourth installment centers on a house that is cursed by a vengeful ghost that causes violent deaths to those who enter it. The film is set to release in 2019 and will be distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment.
On stage in 2008, Gilpin made her off-Broadway debut in the Second Stage’s productions of Good Boys and True by Roberto Aguirre-Saca and Boys Life by Howard Korder. At the Williamstown Theatre Festival in 2009, Gilpin co-starred in the world premiere of Noah Haidle’s What is the Cause of Thunder?, a two-character play with Wendie Malick. Gilpin then took the stage in 2010 at the Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of The Language Archive and, in 2011, the Manhattan Theatre Club’s productions of That Face and We Live Here. Additionally, in 2011, Gilpin appeared in Lucas Kavner’s Fish Eye with the Colt Coeur theatre company in New York. In the following year, Gilpin created the role of Elizabeth in the premiere of Sam Shepard’s Heartless (2012) at the Signature Theatre in New York.
Other notable theater roles include Rattlestick Theater’s production of Lucy Thurber’s Where We're Born (2013), Lila Neugerbauer’s production, An Intervention (2014) by playwright Mike Bartlett, which premiered at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, the world premiere of Halley Feiffer's I'm Gonna Pray For You So Hard (2015) at Atlantic Theater Company and in Bess Wohl’s Barcelona (2016) at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles.
Born and raised in New York, Gilpin received her Bachelor of Arts degree at Fordham College at Lincoln Center. Gilpin currently resides in Brooklyn with her husband.
