Beth Riesgraf

Personal context

Summary

Beth Riesgraf is an actor and television director best known for playing Parker in Leverage and Leverage: Redemption; she has also appeared in Criminal Minds, Complications, and Stranger Things. Her directing work includes episodes of Leverage: Redemption and independent short films. Riesgraf has welcomed autistic viewers’ connection to Parker while saying she did not intend to give the character a label. She has praised women’s leadership in film and the importance of women being fully represented on screen; no public record of party campaigning or broader activist affiliations is established.