Actress Elizabeth Tabish for the cover of The House magazine.
There’s a particular alchemy to Elizabeth Tabish — a magnetic blend of old-soul wisdom, rebellious creativity, and a refusal to be placed neatly into anyone’s box. You might know her as Mary Magdalene in The Chosen, a role that’s given her global recognition and a devoted following, but to define her by that alone would be to miss the point entirely. Tabish, it turns out, has always belonged to the in-between spaces — the ones where genre, medium, and expectation blur into something far more interesting.
With a background in both theater and film studies, Tabish learned early how to spot a well-written female character — mostly because, for years, she wasn’t offered any. “So many female roles were just one-dimensional props for male protagonists,” she recalls. Her frustration fueled a creative hunger, leading her to seek out — and eventually create — stories that centered women in all their messy, complicated glory. It’s a p...