Betty Gabriel (born January 6, 1981) is an American actress. After acting in the Chicago theatre scene of the early 2000s, Gabriel became known for starring in horror films produced by Blumhouse, which established her as a scream queen.
Gabriel… Betty Gabriel (born January 6, 1981) is an American actress. After acting in the Chicago theatre scene of the early 2000s, Gabriel became known for starring in horror films produced by Blumhouse, which established her as a scream queen.
Gabriel achieved commercial success with the horror films The Purge: Election Year (2016) and Get Out (2017); her portrayal of a housekeeper in the latter netted a career breakthrough. Her continued horror roles include the films Unfriended: Dark Web (2018) and It Lives Inside (2023), and the miniseries Clickbait (2021). She also stars in the action film Upgrade (2018), the drama film Adopt a Highway (2019), the comedy film Novocaine (2025), and the action thriller Jack Ryan: Ghost War (2026).
On television, Gabriel appears in the period drama series Good Girls Revolt (2016), the dystopian series Westworld (2018), the science fiction series Counterpart (2018–2019), the miniseries Defending Jacob (2020), and the action series Jack Ryan (2022–2023).
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