Three Great Things: Michaela Watkins

Michaela Watkins can currently be seen playing the title character in the comedy drama Suze, out now in theaters. She was recently seen in the movies Paint, with Owen Wilson, Nicole Holofcener’s You Hurt My Feelings, starring Julia-Louis Dreyfus, and in the mini series Tiny Beautiful Things, opposite Kathryn Hahn, and The Dropout, starring Amanda Seyfried. She famously played the lead role in Hulu’s Casual and her other TV credits include The Unicorn, Catastrophe, Search Party, Get Shorty, Wet Hot American Summer, Transparent, Veep, Enlightened, Modern Family, Children’s Hospital, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Key and Peele, The Kroll Show and Drunk History. Her indie film credits include Lake Bell’s In a World; Joey Soloway’s Afternoon Delight; Brigsby Bear, opposite Kyle Mooney and Greg Kinnear; Brittany Runs a Marathon with Jillian Bell; The Way Back, opposite Ben Affleck; and Wanderlust, opposite Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd. (Photo by Catie Laffoon.)