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Fitzgerald at the Masters of Sex event at PaleyFest 2014 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood in March 2014
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Born | 1982/1983 (age 33–34) Camden, Maine, U.S. |
Occupation | Actress |
Relatives | Desmond FitzGerald (grandfather), Frances FitzGerald (aunt) |
Caitlin FitzGerald (born 1983) is an American actress and filmmaker. She is best known for her role Libby Masters in the Showtime television drama Masters of Sex.
FitzGerald was raised in Camden, Maine. Her father, Des FitzGerald, is the former CEO of the multinational corporation ContiGroup and the founder of Ducktrap River Fish Farm Inc. Her mother, Pam Allen, is the author of Knitting for Dummies and the founder of the yarn company Quince & Co. FitzGerald's younger brother, Ryan, is a Yale University graduate with a master's degree in environmental management. Her parents divorced when she was a child. She has two half-brothers, Alexander and Cooper, as a result of her father's subsequent marriage to actress Lucinda Ziesing. Her paternal grandfather, Desmond FitzGerald, was the deputy director of the CIA during the Kennedy administration. Her aunt is Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Frances FitzGerald.
Fitzgerald first developed an interest in acting as a child and performed in many community theatre and school productions. She was a boarding student at Concord Academy in Massachusetts. She later graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she studied drama at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. FitzGerald also spent time studying Shakespeare at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
FitzGerald has appeared in Love Simple, It's Complicated, Gossip Girl (TV), Whit Stillman's Damsels in Distress,Blue Bloods (TV), and Newlyweds.