Madeleine Coghlan
- Actress
- Writer
- Director
Madeleine Coghlan is a Los Angeles based actor/writer/director. She has been acting in both comedy and drama since she was a kid and plays a recurring character on the hit ABC show, 'The Rookie.' She has written and starred in two of her own short films that made their festival run and has also guest starred on various shows such as Fox's Lucifer and ABC's Castle. She has appeared in several independent films, most notably 'Holidays' which made its premiere at Tribeca Film Festival, and the new Miranda July film, 'Kajillionaire' which premiered at 2020 Sundance Film Festival. On the comedy side, she trained at Groundlings in Los Angeles and hosted Disney Channel's, Movie Surfers, where she worked with various high profile actors such as Will Smith and Emily Blunt. She played the leading role in the Facebook Watch series, 'Mira Mira' and recently made her directorial debut with a short film, 'Defibrillator'(Beyond Fest 2022, FilmQuest 2022, Hollyshorts 2022) that she also wrote and starred in. Her latest movie, 'We Burn Like This', premiered at the 2021 Santa Barbara International Film Festival and made its European debut at Deauville 2021. She also co directed and starred Darren Hayes(Savage Garden's) latest music video for his single 'Do You Remember.'