Biography
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 (a lead, as a high-school student grappling with the prospect of losing her virginity), 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 and
Tina Fey's satirical big-screen comedy
Mean Girls (2004), as a high-school student; the actress also essayed the female lead in the thoughtful coming-of-age drama
Love Is the Drug (2006), as an elitist teenager who travels in an exclusive social circle and draws the infatuation of an unpopular newcomer (John Patrick Amedori). Also in 2006, Caplan scored a regular role on the sitcom
The Class. In 2008, she appeared in Matt Reeves' sci-fi thriller
Cloverfield as Marlena, one of the victims of a city-wide rampaging monster. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide