Marisa Coughlan
Biography
Marisa Coughlan is an American actress and writer who grew up in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Her first major film role came in Kevin Williamson's Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999), a lead she won after reportedly being turned down for a part on Dawson's Creek. She played Officer Ursula Hanson in Super Troopers (2001) and Betty in Freddy Got Fingered (2001), and had a recurring part as Melissa Hughes on Boston Legal. Other credits include Pumpkin, with Christina Ricci, and the Lifetime series Side Order of Life, in which she starred in 2007; she also appeared on Bones. Coughlan moved into writing, producing her first pilot, Lost and Found, for ABC in 2011, and later wrote a comedy for NBC and a Fox project titled Pushing. In 2022 she wrote and starred in the drama Days When the Rains Came.
52years old
Turns 53 on March 17in 153 days
- Born Minneapolis
- Star sign: PiscesThe sign runs February 19 to March 20
- Also credited as Marisa Christine Coughlan
Movie Career
- Films
- 13
- Career span
- 27 years1999 to 2026
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Big break
Coughlan landed her first major film role in Kevin Williamson's Teaching Mrs. Tingle after she had reportedly been rejected for a part on his series Dawson's Creek.
Behind the camera
Coughlan wrote the independent drama Days When the Rains Came and starred in it opposite Beau Bridges in 2022. The film was shot in Minnesota.
Marisa Coughlan movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Jay Chandrasekhar directed three of these films. Six actors appear in three of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Kevin Heffernan's page
Jay Chandrasekhar's page
Paul Soter's page
Steve Lemme's page
Erik Stolhanske's page
Lynda Carter's page
Box office
What Marisa Coughlan's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$83.9 million
8 of the 12 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 12 films: 8 worldwide figure; 1 us gross only; 1 never in cinemas; 2 figure not found.
- 8Worldwide figure
- 1US gross only
- 1Never in cinemas
- 2Figure not found
Top grosser
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$32M37.7% of the total
- 2$23M27.6% of the total
- 3$14M17.1% of the total
- 4$8.9M10.7% of the total
- 5$5.1M6.1% of the total
- 6$347K0.4% of the total
- 7$308K0.4% of the total
- 8$3K0.0% of the total
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