Lizzy Caplan

An actress who commenced onscreen roles in late adolescence, Lizzy Caplan initially specialized in playing teenagers and young adults in tough-natured and slightly edgy material. Caplan landed many of her earliest assignments on the small screen, in telemovies such as the 2000 From Where I Sit and the 2002 Everybody's Doing It, and made repeat appearances on such series programs as Smallville, Freaks and Geeks, and Tru Calling . Not long after, the young performer joined the cast of Mark Waters… Show more and Tina Fey's satirical big-screen comedy Mean Girls (2004), as misfit high-school student Janis Ian. Also in 2006, Caplan scored a regular role on the sitcom The Class . In 2008, Caplan made a memorable apperance in the Matt Reeves' sci-fi thriller Cloverfield as Marlena, one of the victims of a city-wide rampaging monster, followed by a memorable run as a hippie hooked on vamprie blood on True Blood. TV would prove a good fit for the actress, who also proved an impressive comedian with starring roles on shows like Party Down, Childrens Hospital, and New Girl, ~ Rovi

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