Busy Phillips
Elizabeth Jean “Busy” Philipps (born June 25, 1979) is an American film actress, perhaps best known for her supporting roles on the TV series Freaks and Geeks and Dawson’s Creek.
Biography
Career
She worked the toy-fair circuit as a real-life Barbie before making her show-business debut. 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.
Philipps is leaving ER after the second episode of Season 14; her character is headed to South America to “fulfill her Christian mission”
She also played Joey’s college roomate Audrey Liddell (46 episodes, 2001-2003) in Dawson’s Creek. She also played “Karen” in the Wayons Bro movie “White Chicks”.
She was ranked #58 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2001.
Personal life
Philipps was born in Oak Park, Illinois. 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 former boyfriend, Colin Hanks, and Linda Cardellini (her Freaks and Geeks and ER co-star). She married Mark Silverstein in 2007. Busy Philips is the godmother of actor Heath Ledger and actress Michelle William’s daughter Matilda Rose Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal is the godfather.
Filmography (selected)
Film
- Made of Honor (2008)
White Chicks (2004)
Home Room (2002)
The Smokers (2000)
Television
- How I Met Your Mother (2007)
- ER (2006-2007)
- Entourage (2007)
- Love, Inc. (2005-2006)
- Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! (2005)
- Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story (2005)
- American Dad! (2005)
- Testing Bob (2005)
- Life As We Know It (2005)
- Mummy ‘an the Armadillo (2004)
- Foster Hall (2004)
- Dawson’s Creek (2001-2003)
- Undeclared (2002)
- Dead Last (2001)
- Spring Break Lawyer (2001)
- Anatomy of a Hate Crime (2001)
- Malcom in the Middle (2000)
- Freaks and Geeks (1999-2000)