Caplan emerged a decade ago playing Janis Ian, heavily eye-linered and just as heavily cynical, in Mean Girls. As the shrewd and sarcastic Casey, a caterer struggling to make it as a stand-up comedian, she was far and away the best character in the unjustly short-lived sitcom Party Down. Then she was unconventional monster-bait in the sci-fi blockbuster Cloverfield, a film that allowed her to add the uncertain honour of exploding on screen to her CV. More recently, she was the hilariously jaded Gena, out-partying Kirsten Dunst and Isla Fisher in the comedy Bachelorette.
Lizzy Caplan interview for Masters of Sex: Sex is easy to fake; comedy isn't
Masters of Sex with Lizzy Caplan - video dailymotion
By The Deadline Team. Caplan says playing opposite Michael Sheen, who stars as Dr. Bill Masters, was clever casting on many levels. But I was so enamored with this woman, and her story, and who she was, that I knew it would be such a privilege and an honor to get to play her. Part of who she was, was this unbelievably comfortable-in-her-own-sexuality type of woman in a time when that was not exactly the norm. CAPLAN: I had this fantasy that Virginia and I would become close friends and potentially vacation together, and certainly talk on the phone all the time. I think she was 87, 88, and you know, was not particularly interested in living out those last few years of her life in the spotlight.
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Elizabeth Anne Caplan born June 30, is an American actress and model. Her first acting role was on the cult television series Freaks and Geeks — She received wider recognition with roles in the films Mean Girls and Cloverfield , the latter of which earned her a nomination for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress. From to , she played Virginia E.