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Busy Philipps, born Elizabeth Jean Philipps in Oak Park on 25 June 1979, is an American writer, voice actor, actor and television presenter. She was educated at Loyola Marymount University and began her professional career in 1999, working across writing, voice acting, acting and television presenting.
She resides in Oak Park, has written one book titled This Will Only Hurt a Little, and speaks English.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- This Will Only Hurt a Little
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Oak Park, Illinois, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Elizabeth Jean Philipps (born June 25, 1979), known professionally as Busy Philipps, is an American film actress, perhaps best known for her supporting roles on the television series Freaks and Geeks and Dawson's Creek. She has also performed significant roles in films like The Smokers (2000), as Karen Carter, the drama film Home Room (2002) as Alicia…
Known for
- Stumble — Vicky2025
- Bad Thoughts — Suzanne2025
- Mean Girls — Mrs. George2024
- DC League of Super-Pets — Foofy Dog (voice)2022
- Single Drunk Female — Darby2022
- The Jennifer Hudson Show — Self2022
- Amidst the Chaos – Live (Again) from the Hollywood Bowl — Self2021
- With Love — Amanda2021
- Girls5eva — Summer2021
- I Feel Pretty — Jane2018
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 121
- Total plays
- 1,276
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Busy+Phillips">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,659x
- The CMS experiment at the CERN LHC
· 2008 · cited 1,684x
- Targeted disruption of the c-src proto-oncogene leads to osteopetrosis in mice
· 1991 · cited 1,650x
- Plasma-material interactions in current tokamaks and their implications for next step fusion reactors
· 2001 · cited 1,278x
- Chapter 4: Power and particle control
· 2007 · cited 1,028x
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Key facts
- Born
- Elizabeth Jean Philipps , ( 1979-06-25 ) June 25, 1979 (age 46) , Oak Park, Illinois , U.S.
- Alma mater
- Loyola Marymount University
- Occupations
- Actress, singer and comedian
- Years active
- 1999–present
- Spouse
- Marc Silverstein ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2007 ; separated</span>"}]]}'>sep. 2021 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Elizabeth
- Family name
- Philipps
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Oak Park
- Occupation
- television actor
- Educated at
- Loyola Marymount University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Image
- BusyPhilipps-byPhilipRomano.jpg
- Residence
- Oak Park
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- Commons category
- Busy Philipps
- date of birth
- 1979-06-25
- start of work period
- 1999-00-00
- social media followers
- 384820
- writing language
- English language
- birth name
- Elizabeth Jean Philipps
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Elizabeth Jean "Busy" Philipps (born June 25, 1979) is an American actress, singer and comedian. She is best known for her roles on the television series Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000), Dawson's Creek (2001–2003), and ER (2006–2007), and for her portrayal of Laurie Keller on the ABC/TBS television sitcom Cougar Town (2009–2015), for which she received the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.
Phillips has also appeared in supporting roles in films, including The Smokers (2000), Home Room (2002), White Chicks (2004), Made of Honor (2008), He's Just Not That Into You (2009), The Gift (2015), and I Feel Pretty (2018). From 2018 to 2019, Philipps hosted her own television talk show Busy Tonight, on E!. From 2021 to 2024, she starred on the Peacock / Netflix original series Girls5eva.
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