Eliza Coupe

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Eliza Coupe (2010)

Eliza Coupe (born April 6, 1981 in Plymouth , New Hampshire ) is an American actress who initially gained experience as a theater actress . In the German-speaking area, she is primarily known through her role as Dr. Denise Mahoney known in the US sitcom Scrubs .

Life

Eliza Coupe, who was born in 1981 in the small town of Plymouth in the US state of New Hampshire , grew up in her birthplace and attended Plymouth Regional High School , a public high school. Already at this time she was promoted as an actress by her teacher and theater director at the time and was soon accepted into the California Institute of the Arts , a private art school in Valencia in Los Angeles County . Some time later toured Coupe, which had already won several awards during her high school time with the improvisational theater group Upright Citizens Brigade Theater through France was and with the team, which among other things, her later Scrubs colleague at that time Aziz Ansari belonged , also very successful in the USA. Having previously settled in New York , Coupe started a solo project called The Patriots in 2005, which premiered in November 2005. At the Comedy Festival , which at that time was still known as the US Comedy Arts Festival , the committed actress received the Breakout Performer Award in 2006.

In the same year she gained her first experience in the film and television sector when she took on a leading role in the short film The Day the World Saved Shane Sawyer . Coupe got another film engagement the following year when she had a supporting role in the movie I Believe I Love My Wife . At the same time, the aspiring actress got her first roles in various television series. After she was seen in an episode of the short-lived MTV show Short Circuitz in 2007, another appearance in an episode of Flight of the Conchords followed in the same year . Because of her appearances there, as well as an appearance in an episode of the also very short-lived US comedy series Unhitched , Coupe took on a leading role in the HBO presented in 2008 , however, less successful television series 12 Miles of Bad Road . Due to her appearances there, the then 25-year-old received some more lucrative offers, especially from 2008 and 2009. She also made it into the cast of the television series Samantha Who? and was seen there in a recurring role in two episodes. However, she made her breakthrough in the following year, 2009, when she initially came as a guest actress in the hit comedy Scrubs - The Beginners and then as the main character in their spin-off Scrubs - Med School .

In the series, she is still working as a beginner in the eighth season and at that time, together with Lee Thompson Young, who also just came to the hospital as a beginner, it is not always easy with the more experienced doctors. In the series in which she is seen as the mostly numb and insensitive Dr. Denise Mahoney appears, it even brought Coupe to a leading role due to her performance in the ninth season and was seen in a total of 24 episodes by the end of the series at the end of the 9th season. In addition, Coupe, who was already experienced in theater, worked on other projects in 2009, including the television series Royal Pains , where she was invited to the cast as a guest star for an episode. She was also in three episodes of Scrubs: Interns that year , a web series that runs parallel to Scrubs, and also starred in the film No Heroics . This was followed by a no less successful year 2010, in which she appeared in the movie Somewhere, among others . Between 2011 and 2013 she was one of the main characters in the comedy series Happy Endings . In 2011 the film The Perfect Ex was released , in which Coupe can also be seen in a not insignificant supporting role.

Eliza Coupe was married to the artist and puppeteer Randall Whittinghill from 2007 to 2013 .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Eliza Coupe  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The UCB Theater Heads to the US Comedy Arts Festival . Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. February 25, 2006. Retrieved August 22, 2012: "At 24, Eliza Coupe has lived many lives."
  2. ↑ Janelle Brown: 10 Comics to Watch 2006: Eliza Coupe , Variety Magazine. July 17th, 2006. Archived from the original on October 24th, 2012 Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved August 22, 2012. “The article states that Coupe is 25 at the time of the interview (July 2006). So she must have been born in 1981 " @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.variety.com 
  3. ↑ Happy Endings Star Eliza Coupe: I Want to Play Johanna Mason in Catching Fire . celebuzz. May 25, 2012. Retrieved August 22, 2012: "" I've read all the books, I'm obsessed, "Coupe, 31, told us."
personal data
SURNAME Coupe, Eliza
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Plymouth , New Hampshire , United States