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Busy Philipps (born Elizabeth Jean Philipps on June 25, 1979, in Oak Park, Illinois) is an American film actress, perhaps best known for her supporting roles on the TV series Freaks and Geeks and Dawson's Creek. Pretty blonde actress Busy Philipps started her career with strong performances as enjoyably uncompromising characters on "Freaks and Geeks" (NBC) and "Dawson's Creek" (The WB). Raised in Scottsdale, Arizona, Philipps (born Elizabeth but dubbed Busy in her infancy) made her acting debut as Wilbur the pig in her third grade production of "Charlotte's Web". Thrilled with the experience, she went on to perform in Scottsdale community theater. At age seventeen, the actress took her first role away from home, hired by Mattel to play Barbie at New York City's Toy Fair. She appeared on the UPN sitcom Love, Inc., in a role originally intended for Shannen Doherty. The show lasted for one season (2005-2006) before being canceled. Since Fall 2006, she had a major recurring role as Hope on ER. Having completed a summer course at the Oxford School of Drama, she produced two of her own plays at the Actors Lab of Arizona and was cast on "Freaks and Geeks" (1999-2000), playing tough girl freak Kim Kelly, girlfriend of heartthrob Daniel (James Franco) and best friend by default of former good girl Lindsey (Linda Cardellini). Philipps helped to flesh out the at times cartoonish character, balancing her crudeness with guile and her anger with fear. When the script delved into Kim's troubled home life, the actress handled the emotionally challenging scenes with marked skill and grace. Though the show was a critics' favorite, it met with an early demise in 2000. Philipps kept busy with turns in the MTV TV-movies "Anatomy of a Hate Crime" and "I'm a Spring Break Lawyer" (both 2001), the first a hard-hitting look at the murder of Matthew Shepard and the second a far fluffier piece about the antics of vacationing co-eds. She also added a guest role on the short-lived series "Dead Last" (The WB) to her resume before joining the network later that year as a recurring cast member on "Dawson's Creek" (2001-2003). Here she played Audrey, the outgoing and seemingly oversexed roommate of college freshman Joey (Katie Holmes). Not only did Philipps excel in the role, she served both the series and its audience by offering a fresh, positive counterpoint to Joey's increasingly downbeat and overly intellectual persona. Her parents gave her the nickname Busy because, as an infant, she was always moving, and the nickname stuck; it even appears on her driver's license. She attended Chaparral High School in Scottsdale, Arizona. She attended Loyola Marymount University at the same time as Colin Hanks and Linda Cardellini (her Freaks and Geeks and ER co-star). She worked the toy-fair circuit as a real-life Barbie before making her show-business debut. After a few outings in forgettable B films, Phillips resurfaced in the Wayans brothers' "White Chicks" (2004) as one of the clueless socialite pals of the Wilson sisters, the heiresses the Wayans are disguised as. Philipps is godmother to Dawson's co-star Michelle Williams' and the late Heath Ledger's daughter Matilda Rose, born in 2005. Philipps is leaving ER after the second episode of Season 14; her character is headed to South America to "fulfill her Christian mission". She was ranked #58 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2001. At San Francisco's Sketchfest, Philipps announced that she and husband Marc Silverstein are expecting their first child. On March 13th 2008 she announced "We found out today it's a little girl! I feel great! I've had, like, no morning sickness!" Although she is godmother to best friend and Dawson's Creek co-star Michelle Williams' daughter Matilda Rose, 2, Michelle won't be Busy's daughter's. Instead, the honor will go to actress Lizzy Caplan. "Michelle's going to send me a lot of stuff! We're very close. She has her hands full with being a mother right now. I've known Lizzy for a million years! The cool thing about giving someone the godmother title is that it's sort of practice for their own baby." |
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