Emily Berlese Goss (born 1990) is an American actress who has played parts in theatre, television and film. She is also a voiceover artiste and a producer. She won three Best Actress awards for ''
The House on Pine Street
''The House on Pine Street'' is a 2015 independent psychological drama-horror film written by Aaron Keeling, Austin Keeling, and Natalie Jones, and directed by Aaron Keeling and Austin Keeling. The project was partially funded through a Kickstarte ...
'' (2015). In ''
Season of Love'' (2019) she played a
queer
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character, and has played other queer parts in ''
Snapshots
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'' (2018), in a web series, ''Dating in Place'' (2020–present), and in various other presentations.
Early life
Goss grew up in
San Mateo, California
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.
She attended
Crystal Springs Uplands School, where she played
soccer
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, serving as the
striker position.
[ Among her teammates were Verónica Pérez, who later played soccer professionally, including with the ]Mexico women's national football team
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. Goss started studying theatre at Crystal Springs, after which she spent less time on soccer.[
Goss graduated from the ]USC School of Dramatic Arts
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and spent twleve months at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
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LAMDA's Principal is ...
, receiving an MA in Classical Acting. According to Goss, the exchange programs available to her from USC did not interest her; instead she opted to pursue her own international studying.[
Regarding her acting influences, she mentioned in an interview with Ferntv.ca that they should include ]Maggie Gyllenhaal
Margalit Ruth "Maggie" Gyllenhaal (; born November 16, 1977) is an American actress and filmmaker. Part of the Gyllenhaal family, she is the daughter of filmmakers Stephen Gyllenhaal and Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal, Naomi Achs, and the older sister o ...
, Viola Davis
Viola Davis (; born August 11, 1965) is an American actress and producer. The recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Tony Awards, she is the only African-American to achieve the Triple Crow ...
, and Jackie Chan
Fang Shilong (born 7 April 1954), known professionally in English as Jackie Chan and in Chinese as Cheng Long ( zh, c=成龍, j=Sing4 Lung4; "becoming the dragon"), is a Hong Kong actor, filmmaker, martial artist, and stuntman known for ...
, which last she particularly noted for his stunts.[
]
Career
In 2014, Goss portrayed the role of the main character Jennifer in ''The House on Pine Street
''The House on Pine Street'' is a 2015 independent psychological drama-horror film written by Aaron Keeling, Austin Keeling, and Natalie Jones, and directed by Aaron Keeling and Austin Keeling. The project was partially funded through a Kickstarte ...
'', directed by the Keeling brothers. The film served as a breakout role for Goss, who, after filming, recalled, "I remember saying to friends in LA when I came back from Kansas, if nothing else happens, THAT just happened. And that’s enough. It still is." The film made its world premiere at the Cinequest Film Festival
The Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival is an annual independent film festival held each March in San Jose, California and Redwood City, California. The international festival combines the cinematic arts with Silicon Valley’s innovation. It is ...
, and Goss' role as Jennifer won her a Best Actress nomination and three Best Actress awards. Austin and Aaron Keeling, like Goss, were alumni of USC
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, but they did not work together there. They were certainly acquainted by the end of the filming, however, since the cast and crew were lodged at the house of the film's title while filming.[ She said that she loved living in the 1840s house, describing it as "like living in a museum". In the film she had to wear a pregnancy prosthetic, but still managed her own stunts.]
She also won two Best Actress awards, including a Best Supporting Actress nod from the IFS Film Festival, for her role as Louise. The 2018 film ''Snapshots
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* Snapshot (computer storage), the state of a system at a particular point in time
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'', which is set in the 1960s, has Rose (Shannon Collis
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People
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* Shannon (American singer), stage name of singer Shannon Brenda Greene (born 1958)
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), a younger woman, becoming romantically involved with Louise, a poetry-lover. An inspiration for this film was a 1930s affair between Louise, a photographer, and the mother of Jan Miller Corran who wrote and produced it. Goss had been a fan of ''Jane the Virgin
''Jane the Virgin'' is an American romantic comedy-drama and satirical telenovela developed by Jennie Snyder Urman. The series premiered October 13, 2014, on The CW and concluded on July 31, 2019. It is a loose adaptation of the Venezuelan telen ...
'', directed by Melanie Mayron
Melanie Joy Mayron is an American actress and director of film and television. Mayron is best known for her role as photographer Melissa Steadman on the ABC drama ''thirtysomething'' for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Sup ...
, who also played Professor Donaldson in that film, and when she performed a chemistry read for ''Snapshots'' Goss was "starstruck" by Mayron, and subsequently auditioned for the part in ''Snapshots''.
In 2019, Goss starred in ''Painting Anna'' as the fictional painter Anna Katz. The film, directed by Vanessa Pantley, was a "docu-narrative film", where she posed as Anna in real-world settings.[ She played Iris in the ]holiday
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lesbian romantic comedy '' Season of Love'' (2019). Iris′ lover is Mardou ( Laur Allen), and they are one of three lesbian pairings in the film. Christin Baker was director, and it was released by Tello Films. The film was marketed by its creators as "the first queer women-centric holiday romantic comedy movie".
She had a role in the 2021 horror film '' Shook'', whose theme was social media. It was released on the streaming service Shudder
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. Goss portrays Nicole, who calls on her influencer sister, protagonist Mia ( Daisye Tutor), to watch her dog Chico while she sees a specialist regarding a hereditary disease.
Goss's debut as a director, producer, and writer is slated to be a short film titled '' A Little House in Aberdeen'', in which she is also acting. The film details a story of a woman named Britney who, uncertain and confused about her future, receives an abortion
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, and banters on the subject of her experiences in a "stream of consciousness
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" manner with her medic while he performs the operation. The short film is being crowd-sourced by Film Independent
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, and will reprise a pairing of both Goss and her '' Season of Love'' fellow star Laur Allen. Alan Ng of the film website Film Threat noted that Goss's short film was about six-and-a-half minutes, which is "the length of a typical abortion procedure".
Personal life
Regarding her support of the representation of LGBT people
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and people of color
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in film, Goss has stated, "The people need to hear the voices we don’t hear. We need to welcome them into rooms they have been kept out of and given decision-making positions... But we mistake by thinking this is where the work ends... And we need to hold the productions and companies in our lives accountable."
Theatre
*''Forever Bound'', Atwater Village Theatre; Atwater Village, Los Angeles, California
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, 2018
*''Othello
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'', A Noise Within A Noise Within is an American theatrical company performing classic works of the European canon as well as American playwrights, in rotating repertory. It is based in Pasadena, California.
Awards and nominations
External links
Official websit ...
; Pasadena, California
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I ...
, 2018-19
*''Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
''Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead'' is an absurdist, existential tragicomedy by Tom Stoppard, first staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1966. The play expands upon the exploits of two minor characters from Shakespeare's ''Hamle ...
'', A Noise Within; Pasadena, California, 2018-19[
*'']The Cripple of Inishmaan
''The Cripple of Inishmaan'' is a dark comedy by Martin McDonagh who links the story to the real life filming of the documentary ''Man of Aran''.
The play is set on the small Aran Islands community of Inishmaan (Inis Meáin) off the Western C ...
'', Antaeus Theatre Company; Glendale, California
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, 2019
*''Trying'', North Coast Repertory Theatre; Solana Beach, California
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History
The area was first settled by the San Dieg ...
, 2021
*''91505: Burband "True Sound"'', Antaeus Theatre Company; Glendale, California, 2021
Filmography
Film
Television
Other works
Awards
Blue Whiskey Independent Film Festival
Fargo Film Festival
Independent Filmakers Showcase IFS Film Festival
London International Film Awards
NOLA Horror Film Festival
South Dakota Film Festival
References
External links
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1990 births
21st-century American actresses
Actresses from San Francisco
American film actresses
Bisexual actresses
Living people