Eliza Coupe

Eliza Coupe ( born April 6, 1981 in Plymouth, New Hampshire) is an American actress who primarily as a theater actress first gained experience. In German-speaking countries it is above all through their recurring role as Dr. Denise Mahoney in the U.S. sitcom Scrubs - and its spin-off Scrubs - Med School known.

Life and career

Eliza Coupe, who was born in 1981 in the small town of Plymouth in the U.S. state of New Hampshire, grew up in her birthplace and attended the Plymouth Regional High School, a public high school. Already at that time she was encouraged by her former teacher and theater director as an actress and made soon after admission to the California Institute of the Arts, a private art school in Valencia in Los Angeles County. Some time later toured Coupe, which had during their high school years already won several awards, including the improvisational theater group Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre through France and was with the team, which at that time including her later Scrubs colleague Aziz Ansari belonged, in the USA very successfully. After she had previously settled in New York, Coupe launched in 2005, a solo project called The Patriots, which had its premiere in November 2005. At the Comedy Festival, which was known at that time still under the name U.S. Comedy Arts Festival, the dedicated actress was honored in 2006 with the Breakout Performer Award.

In the same year, she gained her first experience in film and television, when she took a lead role in the short film The Day the World Saved Shane Sawyer. For another film commitment Coupe came the following year when she was a supporting role in the movie I Think I Love My Wife held. It was at this time, the aspiring actress also got first roles in various television series. After she appeared in an episode of the short-lived MTV show Short Circuitz 2007, followed in the same year, another appearance in an episode of Flight of the Conchords. Due to their local gigs, as well as an appearance in an episode of the short-lived likewise only U.S. comedy series Unhitched, Coupe took over in 2008 a major role in the presented by HBO, however, less successful television series 12 Miles of Bad Road. Through their local performances, the then 25 -year-old got especially from the years 2008 and 2009 some lucrative offers. They also made ​​it even in the year 2008 in the cast of the TV series Samantha Who? and was there in a recurring role in two episodes to see. The breakthrough came, however, in the following year, 2009, when it initially as a guest actress in the success sitcom Scrubs - and then as a main character in its spin-off Scrubs - came Med School.

In the series, she is in the eighth season still active as a rookie and has at this time there together with the also just -down to the hospital as a rookie Lee Thompson Young is not always easy with the already experienced physicians. In the series, in which she as the most callous and insensitive Dr. Denise Mahoney occurs, it brought Coupe the basis of their performance in the ninth season even a starring role and was, until the end of the series with the end of the ninth season in a total of 24 episodes to see. Besides the already theatrical experience Coupe worked in 2009 on other projects, including the television series Royal Pains, where she was taken for an episode as a guest star in the cast. Furthermore, it was in this year also in three episodes of Scrubs: Interns, a parallel to Scrubs - The Beginners to see ongoing web series, and also had a starring role in the film No Heroics. This was followed by an equally successful year 2010, in which she starred, among others in the movie Somewhere. Between 2011 and 2013 she was seen as one of the main characters in the comedy series Happy Endings. In 2011 the film was released What's Your Number, can be seen in the coupe in a likewise no small supporting role.

Eliza Coupe is married to the artist and puppeteer Randall Whittinghill.

Filmography (selection)

• 2006: The Day the World Saved Shane Sawyer
• 2007: I Think I Love My Wife ( I Think I Love My Wife )
• 2007: Flight of the Conchords (1 episode)
• 2008: Unhitched (1 episode)
• 2008: 12 Miles of Bad Road (TV series, six episodes)
• 2008: Samantha Who? (TV series, 2 episodes)
• 2009: No Heroics
• 2009-2010: Scrubs - ( Scrubs, TV Series, 24 episodes)
• 2009: Scrubs: Interns (TV series, six episodes)
• 2009: Royal Pains (TV series, episode 1x07 )
• 2010: Somewhere
• 2011: What's Your Number (What's Your Number? )
• 2011: Community (TV series, episode 2x17 )
• 2011-2013: Happy Endings (TV series, 57 episodes)
• Since 2013: The Millers ( TV series)