Lizzy Caplan
Lizzy Caplan
Elizabeth Anne "Lizzy" Caplanis an American actress. After making her screen debut in 2002, Caplan started to get wider attention for her roles in films Mean Girlsand Cloverfieldfor which she was nominated for Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress. Caplan also starred in television shows The Class, True Blood, and Party Down. She stars in Showtime series Masters of Sex, for which she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award, Satellite Award and Critics’ Choice Television Award, all for Outstanding...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth30 June 1982
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
As an actress - and as an actor, too, but it's worse for actresses - you constantly get picked apart for how you look.
I have a special ability to spot TV shows that don't go past two seasons; that's my gift.
I had to do a lot of dancing in 'Queens of Country.'
I think I get way too much credit for making what people consider to be smart choices, but it's only because I made a decision to stop worrying about making money. I had done network sitcoms. I had a nest egg.
I find that break-ups are so much easier when you can hate the person.
I saw 'Clueless' five times in the theatre when I was growing up.
Whenever you're starting a new show, you have these awkward first lunches and meetings that are sort of mandatory, and everybody shows up, but nobody knows each other.
'Party Down' is the most fun I've ever had working in my life. We shoot 10-episode seasons and we shoot it in 10 weeks, so it's very brief: 4-day episode shoots. You never get sick of anybody, and it never feels like a drag. It's way, way, way too short.
In the early days, I just got lucky. I would audition for everything and just happen to land in something pretty respectable, like 'Freaks and Geeks,' my first job, which was a complete fluke.
Everyone who made 'Save the Date,' like the writers and the director, they're all happily married and not anti-marriage at all, so that was kind of interesting to me.
When you're shooting a network television show it inevitably starts airing a few episodes in, and depending on the ratings and the response from the public, you find yourself tweaking your performance or the scripts go in a different direction.
I try to find some similarities between myself and the characters, even if it's the tiniest thing.
I think, as an actress, people get on your case if you do the same thing over and over again. But if you get too far away from that, people don't like that, either.
I'm choosy to a fault. You want to hold out for a project that means something. You're the one who's there working fifteen hours a day, and if you don't believe in it, it can feel a whole lot longer.