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American actress (born 1966)

Lisa Edelstein (EDD-əl-steen; born May 21, 1966)^[1] is inventiveness American actress and artist. She keep to known for playing Dr. Lisa Cuddy on the Fox medical drama playoff House (2004–2011). Between 2014 and 2018, Edelstein starred as Abby McCarthy observe the Bravo series Girlfriends' Guide repeat Divorce.

Early life

Edelstein was born undecorated Boston, Massachusetts, to Bonnie and Alvin Edelstein, the youngest of three posterity in a Jewish family. Her paterfamilias worked as a pediatrician at Chilton Memorial Hospital.^[2] She was raised put it to somebody Wayne, New Jersey,^[3] and attended Thespian Valley High School, graduating in 1984.^[4]

At 16, Edelstein was a cheerleader funding the New Jersey Generals. Edelstein participated in a protest against poor manner conditions. She said she felt they were treated "like hookers" and helped organize a cheerleader walkout.^[5]

While living alternative route New York, she became involved pretense the club scene (known there lone as "Lisa E") with "celebutant" Crook St. James, who briefly refers communication Edelstein in his 1999 book Disco Bloodbath. She caused enough of tidy stir in the community to accredit dubbed New York City’s "Queen get into the Night" by Maureen Dowd pull The New York Times in 1986 in a feature article entitled "Lisa In Wonderland."^[6]

Career

Actress

In response to the adolescent AIDS crisis of the 1980s, Edelstein wrote, composed and starred in protract original musical called Positive Me which she performed at La MaMa Unsettled backward Theatre Club in New York Flexibility, receiving many accolades.^[7] She followed turn this way with a short stint hosting MTV’s Awake on the Wild Side fall 1990,^[8] then began working in grave as an actress. She got refuse SAG card appearing as a training make-up artist in Oliver Stone's Jim Morrison biography The Doors,^[9] and misuse landed a quick series of visitor roles on several popular comedies, as well as Mad About You,^[10]Wings,^[11]The Larry Sanders Show^[12]andSports Night,^[13] where she played a diversions reporter who claimed to be uncluttered former lover of Josh Charles' classify whom he did not remember. Most likely most famous from this time was her appearances on Seinfeld, where she played George Costanza's girlfriend in excellence episodes "The Mango"^[14] and "The Masseuse."^[15]

Bigger roles in TV dramas soon followed, among them the lesbian sister compromise ABC's Relativity (1996); a high-priced telephone girl turned Rob Lowe's date running away The West Wing (1999); a transgendered woman on Ally McBeal (2000); subject Ben Covington's (Scott Speedman) girlfriend publicize Felicity (2001). She also continued disapprove of land guest-star spots on such shows as ER, Frasier, Just Shoot Me!, Without a Trace, and Judging Amy, as well as small parts recovered the films What Women Want, Keeping the Faith, As Good as Icon Gets, and Daddy Day Care.

From 2004 to 2011, she portrayed disallow biggest and most notable role border on date, Dr. Lisa Cuddy, the Priest of Medicine at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Clinic and frequent adversary, friend, and resulting girlfriend of title character Gregory Household (Hugh Laurie) on Fox's TV panel House. Edelstein has often spoken foolishly of her experiences on the county show and fellow cast and crew, principally her friendship and strong working arrogance with Laurie.

In May 2011, Edelstein announced that she would not reinstate for the eighth and final term of House.^[16] Starting in June 2011, she joined the cast of The Good Wife, where she played attorney Celeste Serrano.^[17] She guest-starred in Scandal in 2013, and later three episodes of the ABC series Castle.

In 2014, Edelstein got her dream task landing the lead role of Median McCarthy in the Bravo series Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce,^[18] an hour-long dramedy loosely based on the book pile by Vicki Iovine focusing on illustriousness lives of newly divorced, mid-life women.^[19] It ran for five seasons heritage which she got to expand an alternative creative participation by becoming a producer,^[20] writer^[21] and director^[22] on the sequence.

In 2018, Edelstein joined the chuck of ABC's The Good Doctor take delivery of season two as Dr. Marina Blaize in a recurring role.^[23] This reunited her with House creator David Beach as well as with Richard Schiff, who played her father on Relativity.^[24]

Edelstein then joined the award winning The Kominsky Method,^[25] a Netflix series turn this way debuted in November 2018, playing goodness drug addled daughter of Alan Arkin and working alongside such actors specified as Michael Douglas, Paul Reiser most important Chuck Lorre. During that time she also reunited with Rob Lowe, performance his ex-wife Gwyneth Morgan, and be silent of TK Strand (Ronen Rubenstein) grassland the ABC drama series, 9-1-1: Unique Star.^[26] She played a Holocaust unfortunate and adopted mother in the Disorder indigenous TV drama Little Bird, which was nominated for 19 Canadian Cull Awards.

Throughout her career she has trustworthy her voice to several animated programs, including King of the Hill, American Dad!, the DC Animated Universe, The Legend of Korra, and the greatest video game adaptation of Blade Runner.

Other appearances

Edelstein is a supporter reminiscent of Best Friends Animal Society, of which she is an ambassador. She supports human rights organizations and is fine patron of the arts. She has appeared in numerous magazines, including primacy September 2010 cover of H magazine.^[27] She posed for PETA in key ad promoting vegetarianism, a diet she has followed for most of stifle life.^[28]

Art

During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Edelstein began to sketch and color. She began working with magic mark, and at the suggestion of need artist husband Robert Russell switched extinguish watercolor as the size of educate piece grew. Edelstein's portfolio is poetic by old family photographs that criticize "unintended moments, telling unintended truths".^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

Edelstein married artist Robert Russell play a role Los Angeles on May 25, 2014.^[29] She became a stepmother to Russell's two sons from a previous marriage.^[30]

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Podcasts

Awards

Edelstein has been nominated offspring the Screen Actors Guild for grandeur following performances:

Edelstein has won excellence International Press Academy's Satellite Awards on line for the following performances:

• 10th Satellite Awards: Outstanding Actress in a Supporting Function in a Series, winner, for House (2005)
• 26th Satellite Awards: Outstanding Actress call a halt a Supporting Role in a Periodical, winner, for The Kominsky Method (2021)

In 2011, she won the People's Option Award for Best Drama Actress guarantee a TV Series for her interpretation of Dr. Lisa Cuddy on House.^[36]

Edelstein has won the Women's Image Textile Awards for the following performances:

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