Betsey Brown is an American actress and director best known for starring in The Scary of Sixty-First and for directing and performing in the 2021 satire Actors.
[1] Brown starred in the 2021 film The Scary of Sixty-First, directed by Dasha Nekrasova.
Actors has attracted controversy, as the plot centers a cisgender man (played by Peter Vack) who, in an attempt to further his career as a filmmaker, poses as a trans woman, despite not truly identifying as such.
[4][5] Brown and Vack initially stated on their Kickstarter page for Actors that the film is not a reflection of "the trans experience", but rather a depiction of "white cis male fragility" and "the lengths some will go to keep their seat at the table".
[4] However, a 2023 screening of Actors at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago was cancelled in the wake of public backlash towards the film, which included transgender director Jane Schoenbrun labeling the film as transphobic in a tweet directed at the theater.