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Twink Caplan | |
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| Born | December 25, 1947 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, producer, comedian |
| Years active | 1977–present |
Twink Caplan (born December 25, 1947) is an American actress, comedian, and producer. She is best known for her roles in the box office hits Clueless [1] and the Look Who's Talking series. As a producer, her best-known projects were Clueless (associate producer) and its television spin-off (executive producer).
Caplan was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is best known for her role as Miss Geist in the 1995 box office hit Clueless , which starred Alicia Silverstone. She went on to executive-produce and reprise the role of Miss Geist in the ABC TV series Clueless .
In the 1989 box office hit [2] Look Who's Talking , Caplan played the flirty best friend of Kirstie Alley, the female lead. She returned as Rona in the moderately successful [3] first sequel Look Who's Talking Too (1990), with Elias Koteas as her love interest. She (and Koteas) declined to appear in the financially unsuccessful [4] second sequel Look Who's Talking Now (1993).
At Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2000, Caplan produced Loser , starring Jason Biggs and Mena Suvari. She played Suvari's character's best friend, Gena, a strip bar worker.
In 2007 she produced the romantic comedy I Could Never Be Your Woman , also appearing in the film as Michelle Pfeiffer's costume designer, Sissy. It marked her 20-year acting reunion with Pfeiffer, who played her best friend in Falling in Love Again .
Caplan played the Home Economics teacher in the television series Fast Times , with Courtney Thorne-Smith, Patrick Dempsey, and Wallace Langham. In The New Homemakers Guide (1988), she played against Ronald Reagan Jr.; she worked with Bonnie Hunt as the nosy neighbor duo living next door to Demi Moore and Judge Reinhold.
In 2012, Caplan appeared as Katie in Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie , with Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, John C. Reilly, Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis.
She played the dance teacher in the television series Community in season 1 episode 14, "Interpretive Dance" (2010), and appeared in the 1989 Quantum Leap episode "Thou Shalt Not...".
Caplan played B. Lawney, a waitress with Richard Gere in The Flock (2007), directed by Andrew Lau; Mary Benett, a hard-edged bus driver in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ; and a past-her-prime movie star desperate for a comeback in Secrets of a Hollywood Nurse. She also appeared as Harry Dean Stanton's wife in 9 Full Moons (2013). She also guested as the fall-back fiance of Donny Douglas in Frasier .
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Alicia Silverstone is an American actress. She made her film debut in the thriller The Crush (1993), earning the 1994 MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance, and gained further prominence as a teen idol when she appeared in the music videos for Aerosmith's songs "Cryin', "Amazing" and "Crazy". She went on to star as Cher Horowitz in the teen comedy film Clueless (1995), which earned her a multi-million dollar deal with Columbia Pictures. In 1997, she starred in the superhero film Batman & Robin, playing Batgirl.
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Clueless is an American teen sitcom based on the 1995 film of the same name. It premiered on ABC on September 20, 1996, as a part of the TGIF lineup during its first season. The series then spent its last two seasons on UPN, ending on May 25, 1999. Alicia Silverstone had a development deal with Columbia-TriStar at this time, and was unable to reprise her role from the film.
Look Who's Talking Now! is a 1993 American romantic comedy film, a sequel to Look Who's Talking Too, the third film and fourth installment overall in the Look Who's Talking franchise. Directed by Tom Ropelewski from a script written by Tom Ropelewski and Leslie Dixon, the movie included John Travolta and Kirstie Alley reprising their roles as James and Mollie Ubriacco, respectively; while David Gallagher and Tabitha Lupien portray Mikey and Julie, respectively. Danny DeVito and Dianne Keaton provide the voices for the internal voices of the family's newly acquired dogs Rocks and Daphne, respectively. The plot centers around the competitive nature of the two animals, vying for the family's affection. Lysette Anthony, Olympia Dukakis, George Segal and Charles Barkley feature in the supporting cast. Bruce Willis, Joan Rivers, and Roseanne Barr do not reprise their roles from the previous installments. Produced by TriStar Pictures, it was released on November 5, 1993.
I Could Never Be Your Woman is a 2007 American romantic comedy film directed and written by Amy Heckerling and starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Paul Rudd. It was released on May 11, 2007 in Spain, July 18 in Belgium, September 14 in Brazil, September 20 in Greece and October 19 in Taiwan. It was not released theatrically in the United States, instead going direct to DVD on February 12, 2008. It was also sent straight to DVD in Italy, the UK, Finland, Australia, Iceland and Germany, and on February 1, 2011 in France. The film's title is a line from the 1997 song "Your Woman" by British artist White Town. It marked Saoirse Ronan's film debut.
Stuck is a 2007 black comedy thriller film directed by Stuart Gordon and starring Mena Suvari and Stephen Rea, with a plot inspired by the true story of the murder of Gregory Glenn Biggs. The film premiered on May 21, 2007 at the Cannes Film Market. It was later adapted in Bollywood as Accident on Hill Road starring Celina Jaitley in Mena Suvari's role. It was the final film Gordon directed before his death.
Falling in Love Again is a 1980 American romantic comedy film directed by Steven Paul and starring Elliott Gould and Susannah York.
The Look Who's Talking franchise consists of American romantic family-comedies, including three theatrical films and a television series spin-off. The plot of each installment centers around a combined family, and their efforts to create the best lives for their infant children; while the infant children seek to help their parents through the use of an internal storytelling device, which the audience can hear. The central characters experience comedic and trying experiences that ultimately bring them closer together as a family unit.
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