Molly Beucher
{{Short description|American actress}}
{{Infobox person
| nationality = American
| alma_mater = {{Plainlist|
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| occupation = {{hlist|Actress|screenwriter|film producer}}
| known_for = {{Plainlist|
- Eulogilia
- IRL
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| credits = Thane of East County
| awards = 2019 Excellence In Producing at Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema
}}
Molly Beucher is an American actress, screenwriter, and film producer who starred in the film Thane of East County (2015), wrote and starred in the film Eulogilia (2017) and won Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema's Mary Austin Award for Excellence In Producing the film IRL (2019).
Personal life
Based out of Los Angeles, Beucher is from Tennessee Valley, graduating from Randolph High School{{Cite web |date=2014-08-12 |title=TN Valley actress 'saddened' by death of Robin Williams |url=https://www.waff.com/story/26253967/tn-valley-actress-saddened-by-death-of-robin-williams |access-date=2023-09-22 |website=WAFF |language=en}} and Northwestern University in 2008. In 2016, She was engaged to Patrick Marsden after he proposed to her in-flight, flying from Dulles International Airport to Sao Paulo.{{Cite news |last=Aratani |first=Lori |date=2021-11-30 |title=A United passenger's special request ends in tears (but in a good way) |language=en-US |work=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2016/07/27/a-united-passengers-special-request-ends-in-tears-but-in-a-good-way/ |url-status=live |access-date=2023-09-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160827205434/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2016/07/27/a-united-passengers-special-request-ends-in-tears-but-in-a-good-way/ |archive-date=2016-08-27 |issn=0190-8286}}{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2016-07-22 |title=Man Uses Fake In-Flight Video to Pull Off Mile-High Proposal |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/man-fake-flight-video-pull-off-mile-high/story?id=40809112 |access-date=2023-09-22 |website=ABC News |language=en}}
Over seven days in 2018, Beucher and Georgia Maguire trekked on a 500 mile motocross journey through Morocco, raising $5,000 for Education For All Morocco. They had several setbacks when their vehicles broke down and one incident where Beucher's bike briefly caught on fire.{{Cite web |last=Moyne |first=Nicola |date=2018-05-29 |title=Two women, two ridiculously small monkey bikes, one kickass goal: to ride across Morocco in just seven days |url=https://www.marieclaire.co.uk/life/travel/monkey-bikes-598514 |access-date=2023-09-22 |website=Marie Claire |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Milliken |first=Clare |title=Monkey Bike Mafia |url=https://magazine.northwestern.edu/exclusives/monkey-bike-mafia/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128180332/https://magazine.northwestern.edu/exclusives/monkey-bike-mafia/ |archive-date=2020-11-28 |access-date=2023-09-22 |website=Northwestern Magazine |language=en}}
Career
Beucher worked with Robin Williams on The Crazy Ones shortly before his passing. In 2014, she was cast as the lead actress Jen (Lady Macbeth) in Thane of East County.{{Cite web |last=Coddon |first=David L. |date=2014-09-09 |title=San Diego filmmakers mine 'Macbeth' for 'Thane of East County' |url=http://www.sdcitybeat.com/sandiego/article-13335-san-diego-filmmakers-mine-%E2%80%98macbeth-for-%E2%80%98thane-of-east-county.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140909074057/http://www.sdcitybeat.com/sandiego/article-13335-san-diego-filmmakers-mine-%E2%80%98macbeth-for-%E2%80%98thane-of-east-county.html |archive-date=2014-09-09 |access-date=2023-09-22 |website=San Diego CityBeat}}{{Cite web |last=Voorhees |first=Deborah |date=2014-07-14 |title=Thane of East County, John Lithgow Blogs, King Lear Live Broadcast {{!}} Bard in Multimedia |url=https://theshakespearestandard.com/thane-east-county-john-lithgow-blogs-king-lear-live-broadcast-bard-multimedia/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141028144228/https://theshakespearestandard.com/thane-east-county-john-lithgow-blogs-king-lear-live-broadcast-bard-multimedia/ |archive-date=2014-10-28 |access-date=2023-06-22 |website=The Shakespeare Standard}} In 2017, Beucher wrote and starred in Eulogilia, a short film inspired by being tasked with her own grandmother's eulogy, that screened at the Cleveland International Film Festival.{{Cite journal |last=Rapoport |first=Debby Zelman |date=2017 |title=Death and eulogies are two topics from which people tend to shy away. |url=https://www.beachwoodbuzzmag.com/magazine/1705.pdf |journal=Beachwood Buzz Magazine |access-date=2023-09-21 |via=}} She acted in and produced IRL in 2018.
Filmography
| class="wikitable"
!Year !Title !Role !Actor !Writer !Producer !Notes |
| 2005
|Clerk 2 |{{yes}} |{{no}} |{{no}} | |
| 2013
|St. Pauli Girl |{{yes}} |{{no}} |{{no}} |
| 2015
|Jen |{{yes}} |{{no}} |{{no}} |
| 2017
|Eulogilia |Vivian Wilde |{{yes}} |{{yes}} |{{no}} |
| 2019
|IRL |Carly |{{yes}} |{{no}} |{{yes}} |
| class="wikitable"
|+Accolades !Festival !Year !Award !Title !Result !Ref. |
| Blow-Up Chicago International Arthouse Film Festival
|2015 |Monica Vitti Award for Best Actress |{{nom}} | |
| Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema
|2019 |Mary Austin Award for Excellence In Producing Feature Film |IRL |{{won}} |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|1936047}}
- {{Rotten Tomatoes|celebrity/molly_beucher}}
- [https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/users/32678 Molly Beucher] at Hollywood Fringe Festival
- [https://filmpittsburgh.org/blog/micro-interview-molly-beucher Interview] at Film Pittsburgh
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Category:Northwestern University alumni
Category:Actresses from Alabama
Category:Actresses from Illinois
Category:American women screenwriters
Category:American women film producers
Category:American motocross riders
Category:Film producers from Alabama
Category:Film producers from Illinois
Category:Screenwriters from Alabama
Category:Screenwriters from Illinois
Category:21st-century American actresses
Category:21st-century American screenwriters
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)