Twink Caplan

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Twink Caplan is an American actor, comedian and producer.

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She is probably best known for her role as MISS GEIST in Amy Heckerling's box office hit Clueless (film), starring Alicia Silverstone and Brittany Murphy. Caplan went on to play Miss Geist in the ABC series Clueless (TV series) as well as Executive Producer.

At Sony Studios Twink produced Loser (film) starring Jason Biggs and Mena Suvari. Twink played Mena's best friend at work (a nude dance bar).

She recently returned from London wrapping the romantic comedy I Could Never Be Your Woman, playing Michelle Pfeiffer's costume designer with Paul Rudd as well as Producing. The film marks her twenty year acting reunion with Michelle Pfeiffer playing 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, Twink played Kirstie's flirty best friend Rona and went on to do the sequel, "Look Who's Talking Too," with Elias Kotaes as her love interest.

Twink played the Home Economics teacher in Fast Times (TV series), with Courtney Thorne-Smith ,Patrick Dempsey, and Wallace Langham.

In Night at the Roxbury Twink played against Will Ferrell; She worked with Bonnie Hunt as the nosey neighbor duo living next door to Demi Moore and Judge Reinhold.

Twink just finished playing B. Lawney, a waitress with Richard Gere in The Flockdirected 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; a vulgar past-her-prime movie star desperate for a come-back in "Secrets of `a Hollywood Nurse."

Her favorite is the just finished "In Search of a Midnight Kiss," with her favorite director, Alex Holdridge playing a newly divorced mother living in Florida --mother to Scoot McNairy who promised to be her son in all the movies he has in the future.