Castle Rock

Lizzy Caplan will next be seen in the second season “Castle Rock,” which will return to Hulu on October 23rd. Caplan will play a younger version of Annie Wilkes, the character Kathy Bates won an Oscar portraying in the 1990 film “Misery.” She will also star on the Apple series “Truth Be Told” with Octavia Spencer. The series, created and written by Nichelle Tramble Spellman, is based on the true-crime novel by Kathleen Barber and provides a unique glimpse into America’s obsession with true-crime podcasts and challenges its viewers to consider the consequences when the pursuit of justice is placed on a public stage.

Caplan’s film credits include the following: the sci-fi thriller, EXTINCTION, directed by Ben Young and starring opposite Michael Pena; Robert Zemeckis’s ALLIED with Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard; NOW YOU SEE ME 2 opposite an all-star cast including Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo and Woody Harrelson; THE NIGHT BEFORE with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen; THE INTERVIEW with Seth Rogen and James Franco; SAVE THE DATE (Sundance Film Festival 2012); BACHELORETTE (Sundance Film Festival 2012); 3, 2, 1…FRANKIE GOES BOOM; HOT TUB TIME MACHINE; JJ Abrams’s sci-fi hit CLOVERFIELD; CROSSING OVER; THE LAST RITES OF RANSOM PRIDE; and her breakout role as ‘Janice Ian’ in MEAN GIRLS. She also produced and starred in the short film SUCCESSFUL ALCOHOLICS, which premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.

On the small screen, Caplan starred opposite Michael Sheen in Showtime’s critically-acclaimed drama series about the lives of the sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson, “Masters of Sex.” Among many accolades Caplan received for her performance, she was nominated for an Emmy Award and a Critics Choice Award for Outstanding Lead Actress. Her additional television credits include “Das Boot”, a limited series sequel to the Wolfgang Petersen 1981 film, “Ill Behaviour,” a six-part BBC comedy thriller from writer Sam Bain (“Peep Show”); the critically-acclaimed comedy “Party Down,” a show which earned an AFI Award in 2009 and was named one of Time Magazine’s Top 10 Shows of 2010, as well as roles on “True Blood,” “The Class,” for which she was named one of “10 Actors to Watch” by the Daily Variety, “Related,” “Family Guy,” “American Dad,” “Tru Calling,” “Undeclared,” and Judd Apatow’s cult classic “Freaks and Geeks.” Her recent guest star credits include roles on “The League,” “Kroll Show” and “New Girl.”

Caplan splits her time between her native Los Angeles and London.