Trivia

Graduated from Fordham College in New York City with a Bachelor of Arts degree.

Nominated for the 2018 Emmy Award in the Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series category for her role as Debbie Eagan in GLOW (2017), but lost to Alex Borstein from Cô Maisel Kỳ Diệu (2017).

Daughter of Jack Gilpin and Ann McDonough.

Author of the 2022 book "All the Women in My Brain: And Other Concerns" published by Flatiron Books (September 6, 2022).

First cousin, once removed, of Drew Gilpin Faust, who was President of Harvard University from 2007 to 2018. On her father's side, Betty is a great-granddaughter of Billy Mitchell, a U.S. Army general, regarded as the father of the United States Air Force, a great-great-granddaughter of John L. Mitchell, a Civil War veteran and Democratic politician, who served as a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, from 1893 to 1899; and of Lawrence Tyson, a general, Democratic politician, and textile manufacturer who was a U.S. Senator from Tennessee, from 1925 to 1929. Her three times great-grandfather, Alexander Mitchell, born in Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, was a banker, railroad financier, and Democratic Wisconsin congressman.

Was born in New York City and raised in Roxbury, Connecticut.

Mother, with husband Cosmo Pfeil, of daughter Mary Pfeil.

Sister of Samuel Gilpin and Henry Gilpin.