Elizabeth Anne Caplan was born June 30, 1982 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Her first acting role was on the cult television series Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000). She received wider recognition with roles in the films Mean Girls (2004) and Cloverfield (2008), the latter of which earned her a nomination for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress. Caplan has also starred on the TV shows Related (2005–2006), The Class (2006–2007), and Party Down (2009–2010). From 2013 to 2016, she played Virginia Johnson on the Showtime series Masters of Sex, a role that garnered her Primetime Emmy, Satellite, and Critics' Choice Award nominations.
She has been in such films and TV as
Cloverfield,
Mean Girls and
The Disaster Artist,
Freaks and Geeks, True Blood,
Masters of Sex and in 2018 she will be in at least one episode of Das Boot.