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Lisa Marie Diane Kudrow (born July 30,
1963) is an Emmy Award- and SAG-winning American actress
best known for her role as Phoebe Buffay in the sitcom
Friends.
Early life: Lisa Kudrow was born in Encino,
California, USA, to Jewish parents, Lee Kudrow and Nedra
Stern, and has one sister and two brothers: older sister
Helene Marla Kudrow, and older brothers, neurologists
David Kudrow and Derrick Kudrow. After having attended
Portola Middle School in Tarzana, California, she went
on to graduate from Taft High School in Woodland Hills,
California, and then later received her B.A. from Vassar
College in Biology. She is also fluent in French.
Career: Kudrow originally intended to follow in
her father's footsteps - researching headaches. However,
she was 'discovered' and began her career as an actress.
Kudrow began her comedic career as a member of The
Groundlings, joining the ranks of those such as Will
Ferrell and Janeane Garofalo. Briefly, Lisa joined with
Conan O'Brien and director Tim Hillman in the
short-lived improv troupe Unexpected Company.
She was also the only regular female
member of The Transformers Comedy Troupe, a group
directed by Stan Wells that currently plays at the Empty
Stage Comedy Theatre. She tried out for Saturday Night
Live in 1990, but the show chose Julia Sweeney instead.
She was hired to play the role of Roz in the TV show
Frasier, but was fired during the filming of the pilot
episode because producers didn't think she was right for
the part. However, one of the people working on Frasier
also worked on Friends and suggested Lisa audition for
the show. Her first major television role was Ursula
Buffay, the eccentrically silly waitress on Mad About
You.
Despite the previous lack of success, this role led to
her starring role on Friends as Ursula's identical twin
sister, Phoebe Buffay, a role for which she won the 1998
Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a
Comedy Series. Ursula Buffay also appeared in a couple
of episodes of Friends to explain why Kudrow was
appearing on two different shows at the same time, since
Ursula appeared on Mad About You in the later seasons of
the show at the same time Friends had just started in
which Kudrow played Phoebe. She was the most
Emmy-nominated cast member of the show, totaling six
nominations. She and Jennifer Aniston were the only two
to win.
Her film credits include Romy and Michele's High School
Reunion, Hanging Up, Marci X, Analyze This and its
sequel Analyze That, which did not match the critical or
financial success of the original, and PS, I Love You.
She has also starred in the biopic Wonderland about the
late porn star John Holmes. She has garnered critical
acclaim in mostly dramatic roles for writer-director Don
Roos in the films The Opposite of Sex and Happy Endings.
Kudrow portrayed Valerie Cherish, the main character on
the HBO original series The Comeback. The series
premiered on HBO on June 5, 2005. She also served as
co-creator, writer, and executive producer. The show was
not renewed for a second season. The show was about a
has-been sitcom star trying to make a comeback in
television. Ironically, Kudrow received an Emmy
nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy
Series for her work on The Comeback, making her the
first Friends cast member to receive a major award
nomination since Friends ended.
Kudrow also guest starred in The Simpsons episode
"Lard of the Dance" as Alex Whitney. In the
episode, she tells Lisa Simpson "not to be a
Phoebe," referring to her role in Friends, and that
she loved the name Lisa, in reference to Kudrow's own
name. She also voiced the ghost of Christmas past in the
American Dad episode "The Best Christmas Story
Never".
Personal life: Kudrow used to date Conan O'Brien
until he moved to New York to host his TV show beginning
in 1993. Since May 27, 1995, Kudrow has been married to
Michel Stern, a French advertising executive. They have
one son, Julian Murray (born May 7, 1998). While Kudrow
was pregnant, Phoebe was also written as pregnant, which
is why the storyline of Phoebe being a surrogate for her
brother's triplets was introduced. |
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