Twink Caplan
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| Twink Caplan | |
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| Born | December 25, 1947 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1977–present |
Twink Caplan (born December 25, 1947) is an American actress, comedian and producer. She is probably best known for her roles in the box office hits Clueless and the Look Who's Talking series. In 2012's "Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie" Twink plays the female lead Kate with Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, John C. Reilly, Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis.
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Caplan was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is probably best known for her role as Miss Geist in the box office hit Clueless, starring Alicia Silverstone. Caplan went on to Executive Produce and reprise the role of Miss Geist in the ABC TV series Clueless.
At Sony Studios, Caplan produced Loser, starring Jason Biggs and Mena Suvari. Caplan played Mena's best friend, Gena a strip bar worker.
She recently returned from London wrapping the romantic comedy I Could Never Be Your Woman, playing Michelle Pfeiffer's costume designer, Sissy, with Paul Rudd, as well as producing. The film marks her twenty-year acting reunion with Michelle Pfeiffer, who had played her best friend in Falling in Love Again.
In the massive hit that won a People's Choice Award , Look Who's Talking, which starred John Travolta and Kirstie Alley raising a baby voiced by Bruce Willis, Caplan played Alley's flirty best friend Rona and went on to co-star in the sequel, Look Who's Talking Too, with Elias Koteas as her love interest.
Caplan played the Home Economics teacher in the television series Fast Times, with Courtney Thorne-Smith, Patrick Dempsey, and Wallace Langham. In Night at the Roxbury, Caplan played against Will Ferrell; she worked with Bonnie Hunt as the nosey neighbor duo living next door to Demi Moore and Judge Reinhold.
Caplan has also played B. Lawney, a waitress with Richard Gere in The Flock, directed by Andrew Lau; Mary Benett, a hard-edged bus driver for CSI: Crime Scene Investigation; and a past-her-prime movie star desperate for a come-back in Secrets of a Hollywood Nurse. Twink finished filming 9 Full Moons playing Harry Dean Stanton's wife.
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