Early life and career

Coupe was born and raised in Plymouth, New Hampshire, to Ernest and Kathryn. She has two brothers, Sam and Thom. Coupe attended Plymouth Regional High School in her hometown and graduated in 1999. She is of French heritage.

Coupe was active in her high school's award-winning theatre program. Her roles included Bonnie in Anything Goes and a Mundy sister in Dancing at Lughnasa. Coupe graduated from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). After college, Coupe studied improvisational comedy at The Groundlings and ImprovOlympic. In 2003, Coupe toured France playing a soldier in an all-female version of King Lear. In November 2005, her one-woman sketch show The Patriots premiered at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York and won her the breakout performer award at HBO's U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado in March 2006.

In 2007, Coupe appeared in I Think I Love My Wife. She went on to appear in the short-lived MTV series Short Circuitz and on the eighth episode of the first season of Flight of the Conchords, entitled "Girlfriends", as well as an episode of Unhitched. She was a series regular in HBO's unaired 12 Miles of Bad Road and had a recurring role in Samantha Who?.

She had a recurring role as Dr. Denise "Jo" Mahoney in Season 8 of the TV series Scrubs and the companion web series Scrubs: Interns. She was made a regular in Scrubs' Season 9.

In March 2009, Coupe was cast as Callie in the ABC pilot, No Heroics, an adaptation of the UK series of the same name. In 2012, Coupe played the female lead and love interest to Daniel Henney in the independent film Shanghai Calling, filmed in Shanghai, China. Coupe also appeared in the 2011 movie What's Your Number? with Anna Faris and Chris Evans.

From April 2011 to May 2013, Coupe starred on the ABC ensemble comedy series Happy Endings alongside Elisha Cuthbert, Zachary Knighton, Adam Pally, Damon Wayans, Jr. and Casey Wilson. Despite critical acclaim and a cult following, the show was cancelled by ABC after concluding its third season on May 3, 2013. Since Happy Endings's cancellation, Coupe played a recurring role in the third season of House of Lies and starred alongside Jay Harrington in the USA Network comedy series Benched, which premiered on October 28, 2014. Coupe later starred in the ABC thriller Quantico playing the recurring role of FBI agent Hannah Wyland.

Personal life

Coupe was married to acting teacher and puppeteer Randall Whittinghill from December 2007 to June 2013.

Coupe announced her engagement to Darin Olien, founder of lifestyle brand SuperLife, via Instagram on November 27, 2014. They were married on Christmas Eve, December 24, 2014 while on vacation in New Zealand.

Coupe has lived with dyslexia and ADHD since childhood.

Filmography

Film
Year	Film	Role	Other notes
2006	The Day the World Saved Shane Sawyer	Allison	Short film
2007	I Think I Love My Wife	Lisa
2010	Somewhere	Hotel Room Neighbour
2011	What's Your Number?	Sheila
2012	Shanghai Calling	Amanda
2013	Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues	Sea World Trainer
2014	The Last Time You Had Fun	Ida
2015	It's Us	Joe
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	Nick Cannon Presents: Short Circuitz	Various	1 episode
	Flight of the Conchords	Lisa	1 episode
2008	Unhitched	Julia	2 episodes
	12 Miles of Bad Road	Gaylor Shakespeare	6 episodes
	Samantha Who?	Willow	2 episodes
2009	Royal Pains	Katie	1 episode
2009-10	Scrubs	Denise Mahoney	Recurring role (Season 8); Main role (Season 9); 24 episodes
2011	Community	Special Agent Robin Vohlers	Episode: "Intro to Political Science"
2011-13	Happy Endings	Jane Kerkovich-Williams	Main role; 57 episodes
2012	Happy Endings: Happy Rides	Jane Kerkovich-Williams	Web series
2013	The Millers	Janice	2 episodes
2014	House of Lies	Marissa McClintock	4 episodes
	Benched	Nina Whitley	Lead role; 12 episodes
2015	The Mindy Project	Chelsea	2 episodes
	Casual	Emmy	5 episodes
	Superstore	Cynthia	2 episodes
2015-16	Quantico	Hannah Wyland	4 episodes

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