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| Birth Name(s) : Lisa Marie Diane Kudrow |
Date of Birth: July 30, 1963 |
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Married
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Partner:
Michel Stern |
| Profession:
Actor |
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Lisa Kudrow is everyone's favorite ditzy "Friend" (1994). She got her start in acting through an invitation from one of her brother's friends, Jon Lovitz, to perform for an improv theater group. She studied with The Groundlings and became a full-fledged member upon graduation with honors in 1989.
Lisa has expanded from her success on television to the big screen with hits such as "Romy and Michele's High School Reunion" (1997), "Analyze This" (1999) and "Lucky Numbers" (2000). |
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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 hugely popular sitcom Friends.
Lisa Kudrow was born in Encino, California, to Jewish parents Lee Kudrow and Nedra Stern. She has one sister and one brother: older sister Helene Marla Kudrow, and older brother, neurologist David Kudrow. She is also the niece of composer/conductor Harold Farberman. 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.
Despite the previous lack of success, this role led to her starring role on Friends as Phoebe Buffay, a role for which she won the 1998 Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She played the character from 1994 until the show ended in 2004.
The program was hugely successful and Kudrow, along with her co-stars, gained wide renown among television viewers. She was the most Emmy-nominated cast member of the show, totaling six nominations.
Kudrow received a salary of one million dollars per episode for the last two seasons of Friends. According to the Guinness World Book of Records (2005), Kudrow (along with her female co-stars) became the highest paid TV actress of all time with her $1 million-per-episode paycheck for the tenth season of Friends.
Her film credits include comedic roles in Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, Hanging Up, Marci X, Analyze This and its sequel Analyze That.
However, Kudrow has also starred in dramatic roles including 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.
After 'Friends', 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, about a has-been sitcom star trying for a comeback, was not renewed for a second season. 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 had a relationship with Conan O'Brien until he moved to New York to host his TV show beginning in 1993. On 27th May 1995, Lisa became the first Friend to marry when she wed Michel Stern, a French advertising executive. They have had one son, Julian Murray (born May 7, 1998). Lisa's pregnancy was written into 'Friends' with her character Phoebe having triplets as a surrogate parent for her brother.
Emmy Awards
- 1995 - Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, "Friends" - (Nominated)
- 1997 - Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, "Friends" - (Nominated)
- 1998 - Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, "Friends" - (Won)
- 1999 - Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, "Friends" - (Nominated)
- 2000 - Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, "Friends" - (Nominated)
- 2001 - Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, "Friends" - (Nominated)
- 2006 - Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, "The Comeback" - (Nominated)
Golden Globe Awards
- 1996 - Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV, "Friends" (Nominated)
Screen Actors Guild Awards
- 1996 - Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series, "Friends" - (Nominated)
- 1999 - Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series, "Friends" - (Nominated)
- 2000 - Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series, "Friends" - (Won)
- 2004 - Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series, "Friends" - (Nominated)
American Comedy Awards
- 1996 - Funniest Supporting Female Performer in a TV Series, "Friends" - (Nominated)
- 1999 - Funniest Supporting Female Performer in a TV Series, "Friends" - (Nominated)
- 1999 - Funniest Female Guest Appearance in a TV Series, "Mad About You" - (Nominated)
- 1999 - Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture, "The Opposite of Sex" - (Nominated)
- 2000 - Funniest Supporting Female Performer in a TV Series, "Friends" - (Won)
- 2000 - Funniest Female Performer in a TV Special (Leading or Supporting) Network, Cable or Syndication, "1999 MTV Movie Awards" - (Nominated)
- 2000 - Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture, "Analyze This" - (Nominated)
- 2001 - Funniest Supporting Female Performer in a TV Series, "Friends" - (Nominated) |
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