Emily Goss

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. In Season of Love (2019) she played a queer character, and has played other queer parts in Snapshots (2018), in a web series, Dating in Place (2020–present), and in various other presentations.

Early life Goss grew up in San Mateo, California. She attended Crystal Springs Uplands School, where she played soccer, serving as the striker position. The film made its world premiere at the Cinequest Film Festival, 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, 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 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, which is set in the 1960s, has Rose (Shannon Collis), 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, directed by Melanie Mayron, 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 had a role in the 2021 horror film Shook, whose theme was social media. It was released on the streaming service Shudder. 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, and banters on the subject of her experiences in a "stream of consciousness" manner with her medic while he performs the operation. The short film is being crowd-sourced by Film Independent, 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 and people of color 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, 2018 Othello, A Noise Within; Pasadena, California, 2018-19 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, A Noise Within; Pasadena, California, 2018-19 Trying, North Coast Repertory Theatre; Solana Beach, California, 2021 91505: Burband "True Sound", Antaeus Theatre Company; Glendale, California, 2021

Filmography

Film

Television

Other works

Awards

Blue Whiskey Independent Film Festival Year Nominated work Category Result2015 The House on Pine Street Best Actress

Fargo Film Festival Year Nominated work Category Result2015 The House on Pine Street Best Actress

Independent Filmmakers Showcase IFS Film Festival Year Nominated work Category Result2018 Snapshots Best Supporting Actress

London International Film Awards Year Nominated work Category ResultMay 2018 Snapshots Best Actress

NOLA Horror Film Festival Year Nominated work Category Result2015 The House on Pine Street Best Actress

South Dakota Film Festival Year Nominated work Category Result2015 The House on Pine Street Jury Award for Best Actress