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Portia de Rossi,
born Amanda Lee Rogers on January 31, 1973, is an
Australian actress who is best known for her role as
lawyer Nelle Porter on the television series Ally
McBeal, and as Lindsay Bluth Fünke on the television
series Arrested Development.
Career: Her first significant role was playing a
young and impressionable model in the Australian 1994
film Sirens. Soon afterwards she moved to Los Angeles
and had guest roles on TV shows before landing a role in
the film Scream 2.
She attracted international attention when she joined
the main cast of the Ally McBeal TV series in 1998
playing lawyer Nelle Porter. She remained with the show
until its end in 2002.
In 2001 she starred in Who is Cletis Tout? with
Christian Slater. From 2003 to 2006, de Rossi starred as
Lindsay Bluth Fünke on Fox Television's critically
acclaimed, Emmy-winning series Arrested Development.
Portia was strongly considered to play Christina Ricci's
role in the film Black Snake Moan co-starring Samuel L.
Jackson, It has been announced that Catwoman might make
an appearance in the Batman Begins sequel The Dark
Knight. It is rumored that she in consideration to play
Catwoman in the film.
A beautiful, exotic-looking blonde with pronounced
eyebrows, Portia de Rossi first caught viewers'
attention playing a virginal teenager who poses as a
nude art model in "Sirens" (1994). After
relocating to the USA from her native Melbourne,
Australia, the actress quickly found work as the love
interest of star Eric Schaeffer in the short-lived Fox
sitcom "Too Something" (1995) and later spent
one season (1996-97) as a co-worker of "Nick Freno:
Licensed Teacher" on that The WB comedy.
After a turn as a drug addict in the independent
"The Woman in the Moon" (1995), de Rossi
landed the high profile (but decidedly tiny) role as a
sorority sister in "Scream 2" (1997). She
further added to her growing reputation by joining the
cast of the hit Fox comedy "Ally McBeal" in
the fall of 1998. As Nell Porter, de Rossi added a mix
of cool allure and sultry heat to the fantasy comedy.
During and after the series the actress toiled in a
variety of feature films of varying quality and
distinction before landing her defining role on the
quirky Fox sitcom "Arrested Development" (2003
- ) playing the pampered Lindsay Bluth Fünke. de Rossi
proved she was game for just about anything, perfectly
conveying her character's poor parenting skills, odd
marriage and routinely disastrous attempts to seduce
another man into her open relationship.
During the critically hailed but ratings-challenged
series' run de Rossi's private life also became more
public when she entered into a romantic relationship
with comedienne Ellen Degeneres.
Personal: Born in Melbourne, Victoria, de Rossi
was raised in Grovedale, a suburb of Geelong. As a child
she modeled for print and TV commercials. She took the
name Portia de Rossi at a young age:
“When I was 15, I changed it legally. In retrospect, I
think it was largely due to my struggle about being gay.
Everything just didn’t fit, and I was trying to find
things I could identify myself with, and it started with
my name. I picked Portia because I was a Shakespeare fan
(Portia is the character in The Merchant of Venice). De
Rossi because I was Australian and I thought that an
exotic Italian name would somehow suit me more than
Amanda Rogers. When you live in Australia, Europe is so
far away and so fascinating, so stylish and cultured and
sophisticated.”
An extremely gifted student, she left the lecture
theaters of the Melbourne Law school to pursue an acting
career. She supports Locks of Love, a group that makes
wigs for children with medical hair loss.
De Rossi, who was married for two years to documentary
filmmaker Mel Metcalfe, is now openly gay. From 2000 to
2004, de Rossi dated singer Francesca Gregorini,
daughter of actress Barbara Bach and stepchild of Ringo
Starr. Portia dodged media questions about her sexual
orientation and the relationship during this period.
Portia was rarely pictured with Gregorini in public.
In a September 2005 magazine interview with The
Advocate, de Rossi said that most of her family and Ally
McBeal cast mates learned she was gay because of tabloid
pictures of de Rossi and Gregorini in 2001. The couple
broke up in late 2004 as de Rossi began dating comedian
Ellen DeGeneres. In 2005, de Rossi officially came out
and opened up about being gay in interviews with Details
and The Advocate.
Portia de Rossi was named number 64 in Stuffs 100
Sexiest Women, 31 in Femme Fatales Sexiest Women of 2003
list, 24 in Maxims 100 Sexiest Women List in 2004 and in
late 2006, the magazine Blender listed her as one of the
hottest women of film and TV.
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