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
If you're raised in a household where questions are encouraged, you're the minority. It's sad. One of the things that has resonated the most for me is that, in the '50s, if your sex life was unfulfilling, it was your fault, as a woman. It was never the man's fault. Millions of women thought they were working with faulty equipment. If they couldn't have orgasms from having sex with their husbands, then they were broken. That's insane, and everybody believed it.
There are some of us who are just born with a more adventurous spirit than others. There are lots of people who would rather do the same thing, and she just was never that.
I've played a different type of character in a different type of thing, for the most part. It's not like you can't mine tons of fascinating stuff from any character that you play, and I've always been fascinated with women and relationships, but this has been a completely different experience, for sure.
When you get seen in one particular way, it can be paralyzing. You start to believe it's all you can do.
I was a late bloomer. I'm not one of those girls who's like, "I love my body! Hey, everybody, come look at my body!"
In fact, the first time I ever got naked on TV was the biggest confidence booster of my life.
If you meet a girl who has slept with 100 guys, you will think something of her you wouldn't think of a guy who slept with 100 girls.
I've been a feminist since the day I was born. I wanted to play football. I didn't want to play with dolls; I wanted to play with boys and didn't understand why I couldn't.
There is a certain expectation of girls to eventually grow up and behave and fall in line. I've always bucked against that.
I usually don't know how to fight hard for roles. I've certainly sent a passionate letter or two ... which always leads nowhere.
I was a Russian dancer in my elementary school production of Fiddler on the Roof when I was in third grade or fourth grade. I was one of the younger kids accepted into the play, and the plays were pretty impressive, let me say.
I think there's something very lovely and hilarious about exploring the particular neuroses of the female mind. It's just not the same thing with men. I mean, there are exceptions, but for the most part, women beat themselves up in their heads more. They overanalyze stuff far more than men do.
I think if a girl who liked 'Party Down' found out that her boyfriend liked 'Two and a Half Men,' she would break up with him.
I wanted to see myself as something different, and I wanted to convince people that I was capable of something other than what they would expect from me.