Bethany Whitmore

Biography:

 

Bethany Whitmore – Actor | Producer

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Bethany Whitmore is an accomplished actor and emerging producer based in Melbourne. While continuing to audition and perform in screen roles, she has recently completed a Master of Film and Television (Screen Producing) at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne.  Bethany has successfully produced two short films in collaboration with director Eve Warnes — Motherly and A-Teen — and contributed to two winning TV commercials for ABC's Gruen, working with Positive Ape/Guilty Content. She recently founded her own production company, BaseLine Films, and is currently developing a slate of short films and a web series.

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Bethany began her professional acting career at the age of six. By 18, she was a finalist for the 2018 Heath Ledger Scholarship. She is best known for her lead role as Greta Driscoll in the internationally acclaimed feature film Girl Asleep(2015), directed by Rosemary Myers and adapted from the stage production by Windmill Theatre Company. For her performance, Bethany was nominated for Best Actress by both the Film Critics Circle of Australia and the Australian Film Critics Association in 2017.

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Her feature film debut came in PJ Hogan’s Mental (2012), where she starred opposite Toni Collette, Anthony LaPaglia, Liev Schreiber, and Rebecca Gibney. On television, Bethany appeared in SBS’s The Family Law (2016–2020), taking on a more prominent role in Season 3 after her standout comedic performance as Melissa Hills in the first two seasons. She also featured as Blanche Gifford in the Fremantle Media reboot of Picnic at Hanging Rock (2018) and held a guest role in Hoodlum Entertainment’s Five Bedrooms (2021).

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Her career began with the US miniseries The Starter Wife (2007), playing Debra Messing’s daughter, Jaden. Soon after, she voiced young Mary Daisy Dinkle in the award-winning animated feature Mary and Max (2009), alongside Philip Seymour Hoffman. The film, directed by Oscar winner Adam Elliot, opened the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and remains ranked in IMDb’s Top 250 films of all time.

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Additional screen credits include Rush, Rove Live, Thank God You’re Here, Winners and Losers, and a recurring role in Killing Time, opposite David Wenham. She has also appeared in acclaimed short films such as MWAH, Blackwood, and The Sound of A(US).

 

Bethany has trained at RADA (London), 16th Street, NIDA, and St Martin's Youth Theatre. Her stage credits include Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with Melbourne Theatre Company, INKY for Complete Works Theatre Company, and At the Hand of My Mother for Ward Acting Studio in New York.