her career above a family, she identified with many of Johnson's characteristics. Once she met the producers, it took several months before Caplan was officially signed, and she turned down several other roles in the meantime. Virginia Johnson had worked alongside William H. Masters as they completed research of human sexual response and sexual dysfunction beginning in the late 1950s. To learn about the characters they were portraying, Caplan along with her other co-stars read Thomas Maier's 2009 biography Masters of Sex. The author also allowed Caplan to listen to some of his interview tapes with Johnson. Caplan also attempted to spend some time with Johnson before she died in 2013, but Johnson was ambivalent about the development of the show. It was the first time Caplan portrayed a real person and she mentioned in an interview that she felt a "deep responsibility" to Johnson, but that she had some wiggle room because most people have no idea what Johnson looked or sounded like. Maier stated that the developers of the show have remained mostly accurate to his book and have included other events that are historically relevant to St. Louis, where the series takes place and where Masters and Johnson lived. Caplan has discussed becoming comfortable with the large number of sex scenes in Masters of Sex. Her portrayal earned her nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award, Satellite Award and Critics' Choice Television Award, all for Outstanding Lead Actress. Personal life Caplan became engaged in May 2016 in New York to British actor Tom Riley. They had met in January 2015 while the actress was filming Now You See Me 2 in London, and made their red carpet debut as a couple at the Prague Opera Ball in February 2016. They married in September 2017. They have a son born in 2021. Filmography Film Television Awards and nominations References External links 1982 births 20th-century American actresses 21st-century American actresses Actresses from Los Angeles Alexander Hamilton High School (Los Angeles) alumni American film actresses American television actresses Jewish American actresses Living people American Reform Jews 21st-century American Jews