Beth Chamberlin
Beth Chamberlin is an American actress who received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination in 2010 for Outstanding Supporting Actress as Beth Raines Spaulding in Guiding Light (1952). She also played the role of Lorelei Hills--Beth's dissociative identity disorder personality--on "The Guiding Light" from 2001-02. Based on the backstory Chamberlin created for her character, she penned the best-selling book "Lorelei's Guiding Light, An Intimate Diary", published by St. Martin's Press in 2002.
Chamberlin grew up in Danville, VT, the youngest of four children and the only girl. Born with a congenital defect that affected her ureter tubes, she spent most of her early life in hospitals. She also suffered from petit mal as a child, a form of epilepsy. Today she credits her work ethic and success to the lessons in overcoming adversity she learned as a child.
As a girl, Chamberlin studied dance. She later studied at the American Ballet Theater in New York and ultimately earned a nearly full scholarship to the NYU dance program. She later studied acting at HB studios and the famed William Esper Studios in New York City. In addition, she is the producer and star of "The Kettlebell Way," a series of exercise DVDs. She is a certified kettlebell trainer and a member of the National Strength and Conditioning Association. She is also a professional ski instructor and a former member of PSIA.
Chamberlin lives in upstate New York with husband, Dr. Peter Roy, and their son, Luke.