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Twink Caplan

 
Actor: Twink Caplan
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  • Born: in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '80s-2000s
  • Major Genres: Comedy, Romance
  • Career Highlights: Clueless, Loser, Look Who's Talking, Too
  • First Major Screen Credit: Look Who's Talking, Too (1990)

Biography

A native of Pittsburgh, veteran supporting actress Twink Caplan was on-stage at the city's Playhouse beginning at age five. She studied ballet for many years and danced briefly with a Russian ballet troupe before radically switching gears to work as a go-go dancer. Caplan then worked with a major New York magazine, on the radio as an executive producer, and as a talk show host, becoming the first female radio personality in Pennsylvania. Caplan came to Southern California while working with Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue. Electing to stay, she soon found work as an actress. Caplan made her feature film debut in Underground Aces (1980). Her most notable subsequent roles include that of the outgoing redhead Rona in the first two Look Who's Talking features and her turn as lovelorn teacher Miss Geist in Amy Heckerling's Clueless (1995), which Caplan also co-produced. Caplan and Heckerling have enjoyed a long professional partnership. Their collaboration began when Caplan, then a development executive at Columbia, co-produced Heckerling's television pilot Nineteen. In addition to Clueless, Caplan also produced Heckerling's film Loser (2000), and has taken supporting roles in several of her other films. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
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Twink Caplan
Born December 25, 1947 (1947-12-25) (age 61)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Twink Caplan (born December 25, 1947) is an American actress, comedian and producer.

Biography

Caplan was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is probably best known for her role as Miss Geist in Amy Heckerling's 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 just finished playing B. Lawney, a waitress with Richard Gere in The Flock directed by Andrew Lau; Mary Benett, a hard-edged bus driver for CSI Las Vegas; an odd and embittered Aunt June in the film Changing Spots, directed by Susan Turley; and a past-her-prime movie star desperate for a come-back in Secrets of a Hollywood Nurse.

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