Caitlin FitzGerald

Caitlin FitzGerald

Fitzgerald at the Masters of Sex event at PaleyFest 2014 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood in March 2014
Born 1982/1983 (age 34–35)
Camden, Maine, U.S.
Occupation Actress
Relatives Desmond FitzGerald (grandfather), Frances FitzGerald (aunt)

Caitlin FitzGerald (born 1983) is an American actress and filmmaker. She is best known for her role Libby Masters in the Showtime television drama Masters of Sex.

Early life

FitzGerald was raised in Camden, Maine.[1] Her father, Des FitzGerald, is the former CEO of the multinational corporation ContiGroup and the founder of Ducktrap River Fish Farm Inc.[2] Her mother, Pam Allen, is the author of Knitting for Dummies and the founder of the yarn company Quince & Co.[1][3] FitzGerald's younger brother, Ryan, is a Yale University graduate with a master's degree in environmental management. Her parents divorced when she was a child. She has two half-brothers, Alexander and Cooper,[4] as a result of her father's subsequent marriage to actress Lucinda Ziesing.[5][6][7] Her paternal grandfather, Desmond FitzGerald, was the deputy director of the CIA during the Kennedy administration.[8] Her aunt is Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Frances FitzGerald.[8]

Fitzgerald first developed an interest in acting as a child and performed in many community theatre and school productions.[5] She was a boarding student at Concord Academy in Massachusetts.[9][10] She later graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she studied drama at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting.[5] FitzGerald also spent time studying Shakespeare at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.[11]

Career

FitzGerald has appeared in Love Simple, It's Complicated, Gossip Girl (TV), Whit Stillman's Damsels in Distress,[12] Blue Bloods (TV), and Newlyweds.[13]

Fitzgerald at PaleyFest in March 2014

In 2010, FitzGerald starred in an off-Broadway production of Hedda Gabler. The play was performed in a private house to an audience of just twenty-five people. FitzGerald was excited to play "the greatest part written for a woman that isn’t Shakespeare".[14] Ben Brantley of The New York Times said of her performance: "All legs, eyes and cheekbones, with a face that seems made for cinematic close-ups, she’s a hypnotic pleasure to look at." However, he felt she had insufficient gravitas, often bringing to mind "a newly transferred, intimidatingly classy high school senior, perhaps, who is so beyond being merely popular".[15]

In 2010 she also played the role of Benita in "After Hours"[16] the 10th episode of the 1st season of the CBS crime drama Blue Bloods.

In 2012, FitzGerald starred in and co-wrote the screenplay for the independent film Like the Water, set in Maine. The film focuses on the death of a childhood friend, inspired by the sudden death of FitzGerald's Riley School classmate Sabrina Seelig.[17][18] She also co-starred that year in The Fitzgerald Family Christmas, reuniting with director Ed Burns.[19] In 2013, she starred as Liv in the independent romantic comedy ensemble Mutual Friends directed by Matthew Watts.[20][21]

FitzGerald starred in the Showtime period drama Masters of Sex. Indiewire has described her character as one of the most underrated in television: "Libby Masters is a character who could easily have come across as insipid instead of likable and poignant ... FitzGerald fully conveys Libby's willowy fragility, her fairly sheltered outlook and girlishness -- she sometimes calls her husband "Daddy"—while making it clear she isn't a simple stand-in for conservative values or cluelessness ... FitzGerald makes Libby's perceptiveness and her transparency clear."[22]

In 2015, She appeared in the indie comedy Adult Beginners (previously called Brother's Keeper) from director Ross Katz as Kat, the girlfriend of Jake (Nick Kroll) who dumps him after his tech startup fails and he moves back to his family home. Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale co-star.[23]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2008 A Jersey Christmas Wellesley
2009 Taking Woodstock Young woman
2009 My Last Day with You Ashley
2009 Love Simple Keith
2009 It's Complicated Lauren Adler
2011 Dirty Movie Bank teller
2011 Damsels in Distress Priss
2011 Newlyweds Katie
2012 The Fitzgerald Family Christmas Connie Fitzgerald
2012 Like the Water Charlie McRill
2013 Mutual Friends Liv
2014 Adult Beginners Kat
2015 Manhattan Romance Theresa
2016 Always Shine Beth
2016 Mercy Melissa
2016 This Is Your Death Sylvia
2017 A Little Something for Your Birthday Alison

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2008 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Anna / Natalie Bleers Episode: "Wildlife"
2009 Mercy Erika Episode: "Hope You're Good, Smiley Face"
2010 How to Make It in America Rachel's friend Episode: "Paper, Denim + Dollars"
2010 Blue Bloods Benita Episode: "After Hours"
2011 Gossip Girl Epperly Lawrence Recurring role; 3 episodes
2013–2016 Masters of Sex Libby Masters Main role; 46 episodes
2014 Project Runway Guest Judge Season 13, Episode 8
2016 New Girl Diane Episode: "Return to Sender"
2016 Rectify Chloe Recurring role; 7 episodes
2017 Code Black Dr. Gretchen Kerr Recurring role; 2 episodes
2018 Unreal Serena Main role

References

  1. 1 2 "Camden Actress Comes Home to Shoot a Movie - Free Press Online". freepressonline.com. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Maine’s venture capital fund hires well-known entrepreneur to mentor companies". The Bangor Daily News. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Issues". Down East. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Frankie's Place". google.com. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
  5. 1 2 3 Nojan Aminosharei. "Caitlin Fitzgerald". ELLE. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
  6. ↑ "Lucinda Ziesing, an Actress, Weds Desmond FitzGerald, a Fish Farmer". The New York Times. May 5, 1991.
  7. ↑ "Coupling: Caitlin Fitzgerald Talks Newlyweds and Tribeca". The Moviefone Blog. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
  8. 1 2 "The Maine Event". Food & Wine. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
  9. ↑ "Concord Academy: CA Alumna in Golden Globe-Nominated Film". concordacademy.org. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
  10. ↑ "Sexual Healing". Aritzia.com. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
  11. ↑ "Masters Of Sex: Caitlin FitzGerald On Libby's Marriage Struggles". Access Hollywood. November 17, 2013. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
  12. ↑ Craig Skinner. "Whit Stillman Interview: Damsels in Distress, British Accents and Musical Choreography". HeyUGuys. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
  13. ↑ "Ed Burns calls it ‘liberating’ to make ‘Newlyweds,’ a Tribeca romantic comedy filmed on $9,000 - NY Daily News". nydailynews.com. New York. January 12, 2012. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
  14. ↑ Philip Boroff (August 10, 2010). "Secret Set, Streep’s Movie Kid Make ‘Hedda’ Hotter Than Pacino". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
  15. ↑ Brantley, Ben (August 29, 2010). "An Angry Hedda Gabler in an East Village Town House". The New York Times.
  16. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1772455/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt
  17. ↑ Hartocollis, Anemona (July 28, 2012). "The Short Life and Lonely Death of Sabrina Seelig". The New York Times.
  18. ↑ "sabrina_seelig_thumbsucking_1989". sabrinaseelig.net. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
  19. ↑ v s (December 7, 2012). "The Fitzgerald Family Christmas (2012)". IMDb. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
  20. ↑ "Mutual Friends (2013)". IMDb. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
  21. ↑ Eric Eidelstein (June 9, 2014). "Exclusive: FilmBuff to Release 'Mutual Friends' Across Di - Indiewire". Indiewire. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
  22. ↑ Alison Willmore (December 6, 2013). "Critic's Picks: The 8 Most Underappreciated Supporting Ac - Indiewire". Indiewire. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
  23. ↑ The Deadline Team. "Colm Feore Joins ‘Painkillers'; Caitlin FitzGerald Cast in ‘Brother’s Keeper’". Deadline. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
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