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Marisa Coughlan

ActorBorn March 17, 1974 (51 years)
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Marisa Christine Coughlan (born March 17, 1974) is an American actress, writer and producer.

Early life

Coughlan was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She graduated from Breck School, a small private school in Minneapolis. When she moved to Los Angeles, she enrolled in a BFA program at the University of Southern California.

Career

She has appeared in top 100 "hot" lists put out by numerous men's magazines in recent years and graced the cover of Stuff magazine in May 2001.

Coughlan's first film appearance to gain mainstream attention was Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999), in which she co-starred alongside Katie Holmes. Other films she appeared in included Pumpkin (co-starring with Christina Ricci), a drama about sorority girls; New Suit, a satirical comedy about the inner workings of Hollywood; Super Troopers, playing Officer Ursula Hanson; and Freddy Got Fingered as Betty.

She had a recurring role on the television series Boston Legal as secretary Melissa Hughes in seasons two and three. In 2007, she starred as Jenny McIntyre in Lifetime Television's original series Side Order of Life. Lifetime did not pick the series up for a second season despite a strong following. In 2008-09, she appeared on three episodes of the hit TV show Bones.

Coughlan began writing while she was pregnant and taking time off from acting. She wrote and produced her first pilot, Lost & Found for ABC in 2011.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Masters of Horror
  • Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction

Known For

  • Freddy Got Fingered
  • Super Troopers
  • Teaching Mrs. Tingle
  • Super Troopers 2
  • Space Station 76
  • Gossip
  • Pumpkin
  • Infamous
  • I Love Your Work
  • Already Dead
  • New Suit
  • Side Order of Life
  • Spin, Shoot & Run
  • The Sleepwalker Killing
  • Our Son, the Matchmaker

Filmography

2020
Infamous · as Janet
2018
Legacies (TV Series) · as The Keeper
2018
Super Troopers 2 · as Ursula Hanson
2014
Space Station 76 · as Misty
2011
Man Up! (TV Series) · as Dr. Donna Perkins
2011
How To Be a Gentleman (TV Series) · as Candice
2008
2007
Already Dead · as Sarah Archer
2007
Meet Bill · as Laura
2007
Side Order of Life (TV Series) · as Jenny Mcintyre
2006
The Damned Thing · as Dina
2006
Wasted · as Kelly
2006
2005
2005
Bones (TV Series) · as Special Agent Payton Perotta
2005
Jake in Progress (TV Series) · as Hope
2005
Medium (TV Series) · as Gabrielle
2004
Boston Legal (TV Series) · as Melissa Hughes
2003
I Love Your Work · as Jane
2003
2002
New Suit · as Marianne Roxbury
2002
The Twilight Zone (2002) (TV Series) · as April Beech
2002
Pumpkin · as Julie Thurber
2001
2001
Super Troopers · as Ursula Hanson
2000
Gossip · as Sheila
1999
Wasteland (TV Series) · as Dawnie Parker
1999
Teaching Mrs. Tingle · as Jo Lynn Jordan
1998
The Magnificent Seven (TV Series) · as Nora
1997
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction (TV Series) · as Summer (segment "the Prophecy")
1997
The Sleepwalker Killing · as Tanya Lane
1996
The Guilt (TV Series) · as Kendall Cornell
1996
The Burning Zone (TV Series) · as Chante Lefort
1996
Our Son, the Matchmaker · as Young Julie
1995
High Society (TV Series) · as Dana
1995
1994
Weird Science (TV Series)
1993
Diagnosis Murder (TV Series) · as Allison Porter
1991
Step by Step (TV Series) · as New Girl #2

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