Betty Gabriel is an American stage, film and television actress. She holds a BA in Animal Science from Iowa State University, Ames, and graduated from The Juilliard School in New York City, New York, USA.
In Inkheart, the twelve-year-old, Meggie, discovers that her father Mo, a professional bookbinder, has the unusual ability to transfer characters from books into the real world when he reads aloud—they call those with this ability "Silvertongue".
