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Lisa V. Kudrow (born July 30, 1963) is an Emmy Award
Emmy Award

The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
- and SAG
Screen Actors Guild

The Screen Actors Guild is an American trade union representing over 120,000 film and television actor and extra worldwide. According to SAG's Mission Statement, the Guild seeks to: negotiate and enforce collective bargaining agreements that establish equitable levels of compensation, benefits, and working conditions for its performers; col...
-winning American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 actress
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
, best known for her roles as Phoebe Buffay
Phoebe Buffay

Phoebe Buffay-Hannigan is a fictional character from the popular United States TV series sitcom Friends , played by Lisa Kudrow. Her claims to fame include her guitar playing in Central Perk and her elaborate, improbable stories about her previous lives....
 in the popular television sitcom
Situation comedy

A situation comedy, usually referred to as a sitcom, is a genre of comedy programs which originated in radio. Today, sitcoms are found almost exclusively on television as one of its dominant narrative forms....
 Friends
Friends

Friends is an American situation comedy created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994. The series revolves around a group of friends in the area of Manhattan, New York City, who occasionally live together and share living expenses....
and as Valerie Cherish in the HBO series The Comeback
The Comeback (TV series)

The Comeback is a Television program produced by HBO that stars actress Lisa Kudrow as sitcom actress Valerie Cherish in modern-day Los Angeles, California....
, which she produced and co-created.

ow was born in Encino, California, the daughter of Nedra (née
Married and maiden names

A married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage, and in speaking of the many cultures where the practice is traditional for women, the maiden name is the family name that the married name replaces....
 Stern), a travel agent, and Lee Kudrow, a headache specialist and physician.






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Lisa V. Kudrow (born July 30, 1963) is an Emmy Award
Emmy Award

The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
- and SAG
Screen Actors Guild

The Screen Actors Guild is an American trade union representing over 120,000 film and television actor and extra worldwide. According to SAG's Mission Statement, the Guild seeks to: negotiate and enforce collective bargaining agreements that establish equitable levels of compensation, benefits, and working conditions for its performers; col...
-winning American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 actress
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
, best known for her roles as Phoebe Buffay
Phoebe Buffay

Phoebe Buffay-Hannigan is a fictional character from the popular United States TV series sitcom Friends , played by Lisa Kudrow. Her claims to fame include her guitar playing in Central Perk and her elaborate, improbable stories about her previous lives....
 in the popular television sitcom
Situation comedy

A situation comedy, usually referred to as a sitcom, is a genre of comedy programs which originated in radio. Today, sitcoms are found almost exclusively on television as one of its dominant narrative forms....
 
Friends
Friends

Friends is an American situation comedy created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994. The series revolves around a group of friends in the area of Manhattan, New York City, who occasionally live together and share living expenses....
and as Valerie Cherish in the HBO series The Comeback
The Comeback (TV series)

The Comeback is a Television program produced by HBO that stars actress Lisa Kudrow as sitcom actress Valerie Cherish in modern-day Los Angeles, California....
, which she produced and co-created.

Biography


Early life

Kudrow was born in Encino, California, the daughter of Nedra (née
Married and maiden names

A married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage, and in speaking of the many cultures where the practice is traditional for women, the maiden name is the family name that the married name replaces....
 Stern), a travel agent, and Lee Kudrow, a headache specialist and physician. She was raised in a Jew
Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
ish family and has an older sister, Helene Marla, and an older brother, neurologist David Kudrow. She is the niece of composer/conductor Harold Farberman
Harold Farberman

Harold Farberman is an United States conducting, composer, and Percussion instrument. He is the uncle of Emmy Award winning actress Lisa Kudrow....
. She took guitar lessons as a child and is left-handed
Left-handed

Left-handedness is the preference for the left hand over the right for everyday activities such as Penmanship. Most left-handedness people exhibit some degree of ambidexterity....
.

After attending Portola Middle School
Portola Middle School (Tarzana)

Portola Middle School is a middle school located in Tarzana, California in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. It provides public education for grades six through eight....
 in Tarzana, California, she graduated from Taft High School
Taft High School (Los Angeles)

for schools of the same name.William Howard Taft High School is a public school located on Ventura Boulevard in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, California, California, USA, within the Los Angeles Unified School District....
 in Woodland Hills, California. She received her B.S. in Biology from Vassar College
Vassar College

Vassar College is a private, coeducational, Liberal arts colleges in the United States situated in the town of Poughkeepsie , New York, New York, United States....
, intending to follow in her father's footsteps and research headaches. Kudrow worked on her father's staff for eight years while breaking into acting, earning a research credit on his study on the comparative likelihood of left-handed individuals developing cluster headache
Cluster headache

Cluster headache, nicknamed "suicide headache", is a neurological disease that involves, as its most prominent feature, an immense degree of pain....
s.

Career

At the urging of her brother's childhood friend, comedian Jon Lovitz
Jon Lovitz

Jonathan M. "Jon" Lovitz is an American actor and comedian perhaps best known as a cast member of Saturday Night Live and the voice of Jay Sherman in The Critic....
, Kudrow began her comedic career as a member of The Groundlings
The Groundlings

The Groundlings is an improvisational comedy troupe based in Los Angeles, California, California, USA. The troupe was formed by Gary Austin in 1974 and uses an improv format influenced by Viola Spolin to produce sketches and improvised scenes....
, joining the ranks of those such as Will Ferrell
Will Ferrell

'John William' "'Will'" 'Ferrell' is an United States comedian, actor, voice actor, and writer who first established himself as a cast member of Saturday Night Live, and has since gone on to a successful film career, starring in the comedies A Night at the Roxbury , Old School , Elf , Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Bur...
 and Janeane Garofalo
Janeane Garofalo

Jane Anne "Janeane" Garofalo is an United States stand-up comedian, actor, political activism, writer, and former co-host on Air America Radio's The Majority Report....
. Briefly, Kudrow joined with Conan O'Brien
Conan O'Brien

Conan Christopher O'Brien is an Emmy Award-winning United States television host, television writer and comedian, best known as host of NBC Late Night with Conan O'Brien from 1993-2009....
 and director Tim Hillman in the short-lived improv
Improvisational theatre

Improvisational theatre is a form of theatre in which the actors use improvisational acting techniques to perform spontaneously. Actors typically use audience suggestions to guide the performance as they create dialogue, setting, and plot extemporaneously....
 troupe Unexpected Company
Unexpected Company

Unexpected Company is an improvisational comedy group founded in Hollywood, California in 1986 by Tim Hillman, and recreated in Rhode Island in 2003 by Hillman and Justin Lang....
. She was also the only regular female member of the Transformers Comedy Troupe. She played a role in an episode of the NBC sitcom
Cheers
Cheers

Cheers is an American situation comedy television series that ran for eleven seasons from 1982 to 1993. It was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions in association with Paramount Television for NBC, having been created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles....
. She tried out for Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live is a weekly late-night 90-minute American sketch comedy/variety show filmed in New York City. It made its debut on October 11, 1975....
in 1990, but the show chose Julia Sweeney
Julia Sweeney

Julia Sweeney is an United States actor, comedian and author best known for her Saturday Night Live career and autobiographical solo shows....
 instead. She had a recurring role as Kathy Fleisher in three episodes of season one of the Bob Newhart
Bob Newhart

George Robert "Bob" Newhart is an United States Stand-up comedy and actor who is best known for playing psychologist Dr. Robert "Bob" Hartley on the popular 1970s sitcom The Bob Newhart Show and as innkeeper Dick Loudon on the popular 1980s sitcom Newhart....
 sitcom
Bob
Bob (TV series)

Bob is an United States television situation comedy starring Bob Newhart. It was the actor's third series for CBS and proved to be far less successful than The Bob Newhart Show and Newhart, his previous outings with the network, and is an example of a show being canceled due to being placed in the Friday night death slot....
(CBS
CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
, 1992-1993). Prior to
Friends, she appeared in at least two produced network pilots: NBC's Just Temporary (also known as Temporarily Yours) in 1989, playing Nicole; and CBS' Close Encounters (also known as Matchmaker) in 1990, playing a Valley girl
Valley girl

Valley Girl is a term referred to affluent upper-middle class girls living in the bedroom community neighborhoods of San Fernando Valley.A Valley Girl can be described as materialistic, self-conscious, dodgy, self-centered, hedonistic, physical attractiveness and sometimes sexually Promiscuity....
.

Kudrow was hired to play the role of Roz
Roz Doyle

Rosalinda "Roz" Doyle is a fictional character on the American television sitcom Frasier. She is played by Peri Gilpin. Lisa Kudrow was originally slated to play the character....
 in
Frasier
Frasier

Frasier is an American situation comedy broadcast on National Broadcasting Company for eleven seasons, from September 16, 1993 to May 13, 2004....
, but the part was re-cast with Peri Gilpin
Peri Gilpin

Peri Gilpin is an United Statesn actress.She portrayed Roz Doyle on the U.S. television series Frasier from 1993 until 2004. Along with the principal cast, Gilpin won two Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series in 2000 and 2004....
 during the filming of the pilot episode. Kudrow said in 2000 that when rehearsals started, "I knew it wasn't working. I could feel it all slipping away, and I was panicking, which only made things worse". However, one of the people working on
Frasier also worked on Friends and suggested Kudrow audition for the show. Her first recurring television role was Ursula Buffay, the eccentric waitress on the NBC sitcom Mad About You
Mad About You

Mad About You is an United States sitcom that aired on NBC from September 23, 1992, to May 23, 1999. The show starred Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt as a newly married couple in New York City....
. Kudrow would reprise the character on the NBC sitcom Friends
Friends

Friends is an American situation comedy created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994. The series revolves around a group of friends in the area of Manhattan, New York City, who occasionally live together and share living expenses....
, in which Kudrow co-starred as massage therapist Phoebe Buffay
Phoebe Buffay

Phoebe Buffay-Hannigan is a fictional character from the popular United States TV series sitcom Friends , played by Lisa Kudrow. Her claims to fame include her guitar playing in Central Perk and her elaborate, improbable stories about her previous lives....
, Ursula's twin sister. As Kudrow explained in 2009, "I did
Mad About You first, and then it was pilot
Television pilot

A television pilot is a test episode of an intended television series. It is an early step in the development of a television series, much like pilot lights or pilot serve as precursors to the start of larger activity, or pilot holes prepare the way for larger holes....
 season, and I auditioned for this pilot that turned out to be
Friends. And once I got that, the time slot we got was right after Mad About You, so the creative folk thought, 'Well, we can't just pretend like it's not her'".

For her ensemble starring role as Phoebe on
Friends (NBC, 1994 - 2004) Kudrow would win the 1998 Emmy Award
Emmy Award

The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
 for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Comedy Series

This is a list of winners of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series...
; she was the first
Friends
Friends

Friends is an American situation comedy created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994. The series revolves around a group of friends in the area of Manhattan, New York City, who occasionally live together and share living expenses....
cast member to win an Emmy, as well as the most frequently nominated of the cast, receiving six nominations. The program was a long-running hit, and Kudrow and her fellow cast-members, gained wide renown among television viewers. According to the Guinness Book of World Records (2005), Kudrow and co-stars Jennifer Aniston
Jennifer Aniston

Jennifer Joanna Aniston is an American actress. She became famous from the mid 1990s to the early 2000s for playing the role of Rachel Green in the popular US sitcom Friends, a role for which she won an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award....
 and Courteney Cox
Courteney Cox

Courteney Bass Cox , also known as Courteney Cox Arquette, is an American actor, film producer and former model, best known for her role as Monica Geller on the Situation comedy Friends....
 became the highest paid TV actresses of all time, earning $1 million per episode for the tenth season of
Friends.

Her film credits include comedic roles in
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion

Romy and Michele's High School Reunion is a 1997 in film comedy film starring Lisa Kudrow, Mira Sorvino, Janeane Garofalo, Camryn Manheim, and Alan Cumming....
, Hanging Up
Hanging Up

Hanging Up is a 2000 United States comedy-drama film about a trio of sisters who bond over their ambivalence toward the approaching death of their curmudgeonly father, to whom none of them was particularly close....
, Marci X
Marci X

Marci X is a 2003 in film romantic comedy film, directed by Richard Benjamin and written by Paul Rudnick. It stars Lisa Kudrow as Jewish-American Princess Marci Feld, who has to take control of a hip-hop record label, as well as the controversial rapper Dr S....
, Analyze This
Analyze This

Analyze This is a 1999 movie produced by Warner Bros.. Directed by Harold Ramis, it features Robert De Niro as a mafioso and Billy Crystal as a psychiatrist....
and its sequel Analyze That
Analyze That

Analyze That is a 2002 in film comedy film, and a sequel to the 1999 film Analyze This. The film was directed and co-written by Harold Ramis and stars Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal who respectively reprise their roles as mobster Paul Vitti and psychiatrist Ben Sobel....
. However, Kudrow has also starred in dramatic roles including the biographical Wonderland
Wonderland (film)

Wonderland is a 2003 in film about the Wonderland Murders starring Val Kilmer, Kate Bosworth and Lisa Kudrow. It was directed by James Cox ....
about the late porn star John Holmes
John Holmes (actor)

John Curtis Holmes better known as John C. Holmes or Johnny Wadd , was one of the most famous male pornographic actor of all time, appearing in about 2,500 adult loops, stag films, and porno feature movies in the 1970s and 1980s, including at least one gay feature film and a handful of gay loops....
. She has garnered critical acclaim in dramatic roles for writer-director Don Roos
Don Roos

Don Roos is a screenwriter and film director.Donald Paul Roos was born on April 14, 1955 in New York, USA. Roos attended the University of Notre Dame, in Indiana....
 in the films
The Opposite of Sex
The Opposite of Sex

The Opposite of Sex is a 1998 in film film written and directed by Don Roos. It stars Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan and Lisa Kudrow. The film marked departures for both Ricci and Kudrow, cast against type for the roles they were known for at the time ....
and Happy Endings
Happy Endings

Happy Endings is a 2005 Lions Gate Entertainment picture directed by Don Roos and starring Lisa Kudrow, Tom Arnold, Steve Coogan and Maggie Gyllenhaal....
. In 2008, she commenced filming on Hotel for Dogs
Hotel for Dogs

Hotel for Dogs is a novel by Lois Duncan. It was adapted into a Hotel for Dogs by Nickelodeon Movies for Dreamworks Pictures, released on January 16, 2009....
 alongside Emma Roberts
Emma Roberts

Emma Rose Roberts is an United States actress and singer, the daughter of actor Eric Roberts and the niece of actresses Lisa Roberts Gillan and Julia Roberts....
 and Jake T. Austin
Jake T. Austin

Jake T. Austin is an American child actor who currently stars as Max Russo, the youngest of three wizards, on the List of Disney Channel series, Wizards of Waverly Place and as Diego in the Nicktoons animated series "Go, Diego, Go!"....
.

She has been a vocal performer on episodes of animated television series, including as Aphrodite on
Hercules: The Animated Series
Hercules: The Animated Series

Hercules is an animated television series based on the Hercules and the Greek mythology Heracles. The series follows teenage Hercules training as a hero as well as trying to adjust to life....
, and as Springfield Elementary School
Springfield Elementary School

Springfield Elementary School is a fictional school on The Simpsons, attended by Bart Simpson, Lisa Simpson and other Springfieldian children....
 student Alexandra Whitney on
The Simpsons
The Simpsons

The Simpsons is an Television in the United States animated cartoon Situation comedy created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company....
She was the voice of the female grizzly bear Ava in the live action
Live action

In film, theatre and video, live-action refers to works that are acted out by human actors, as opposed to by animation. As it is the norm, the term is usually superfluous, but it makes an important distinction in situations in which one might normally expect animation, as in a Pixar film, a video game or when the work is adapted from an anim...
 movie
Dr. Dolittle 2
Dr. Dolittle 2

Dr. Dolittle 2 is an United States comedy film, the theatrical sequel to Dr. Dolittle . The continuing tale of the doctor who can talk to the animals--this time, it's Dolittle versus Darwin when the animals launch a labor strike to protect their forest from unscrupulous human developers....
.

After
Friends, Kudrow starred as protagonist Valerie Cherish on the single-season HBO series The Comeback
The Comeback (TV series)

The Comeback is a Television program produced by HBO that stars actress Lisa Kudrow as sitcom actress Valerie Cherish in modern-day Los Angeles, California....
(premiered June 5, 2005), about a has-been sitcom star trying for a comeback. She also served as co-creator, writer, and executive producer. 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. She has also appeared, alongside her niece, in a television commercial for Nintendo's
Nintendo

is a global company located in Kyoto, Japan founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel....
 
Personal Trainer: Cooking
Cooking Guide: Can't Decide What to Eat?

Cooking Guide: Can't Decide What to Eat?, known in North America as Personal Trainer: Cooking and in Japan as , is a digital cookbook for the Nintendo DS....
.

Her latest project is as the executive producer for the American version of the hit UK television series Who Do You Think You Are?
Who Do You Think You Are?

Who Do You Think You Are? is a United Kingdom genealogy Documentary film Television program that has aired on the BBC since 2004. Made by Wall to Wall, in each episode, a celebrity goes on a journey to trace his or her family tree....
 for NBC, in which celebrities trace their family trees. The release date is April 20th 2009, and will include herself, Susan Sarandon
Susan Sarandon

Susan Sarandon is an Academy Award-winning American actress. She has worked in films and television since 1970, and won an Oscar for her performance in the 1995 film, Dead Man Walking ....
 and Sarah Jessica Parker
Sarah Jessica Parker

Sarah Jessica Parker , also sometimes referred to by her initials SJP, is an American film, television and theater actress and producer. She is best known for her leading role as Carrie Bradshaw on the HBO television series Sex and the City, for which she won four Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and two Emmy Awar...
 as well as others.

Personal life

Kudrow had a relationship with Conan O'Brien
Conan O'Brien

Conan Christopher O'Brien is an Emmy Award-winning United States television host, television writer and comedian, best known as host of NBC Late Night with Conan O'Brien from 1993-2009....
 until he moved to New York to host his talk show
Talk show

A talk show or chat show is a television or radio program where one person or group of people come together to discuss various topics put forth by a talk show talk show host....
 
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Late Night with Conan O'Brien was an United States late night television talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien that aired 2,725 episodes on NBC from 1993 to 2009....
beginning in 1993. On May 27, 1995, Kudrow became the first "Friend" to marry when she wed Michel Stern, a French
French people

French people can refer to:* The legal residents and citizens of France, regardless of ancestry. For a legal discussion, see French nationality law....
 advertising
Advertising

Advertising is a form of communication that typically attempts to persuade potential customers to Purchasing or to consume more of a particular brand of Product or Service ....
 executive. They have one son, Julian Murray (born May 7, 1998), and live near Beverly Hills, California
Beverly Hills, California

Beverly Hills is a city in the western part of Los Angeles County, California, California, United States. Beverly Hills and the neighboring city of West Hollywood, California are together entirely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles, California....
. Kudrow's pregnancy was written into
Friends with her character Phoebe having triplets as a surrogate parent
Surrogacy

Surrogacy is a method of reproduction whereby a woman agrees to become pregnancy and deliver a child for a contracted party. She may be the child's Genetics , or she may, as a gestational carrier, carry the pregnancy to delivery after having been implanted with an embryo, in some jurisdictions an illegal medical procedure....
 for her brother.

Kudrow is bilingual, speaking English and French fluently. This was used in an episode of
Friends in which Phoebe taught Joey (Matt LeBlanc
Matt LeBlanc

Matthew Steven "Matt" LeBlanc is an American actor, known for his role as Joey Tribbiani in the NBC sitcoms Friends and Joey ....
) to speak French for an audition, and on other occasions.

Filmography

  • L.A. on $5 a Day (1989)
  • Dance with Death (1991)
  • The Unborn
    The Unborn

    The Unborn is the second album by Finland melodic death metal Rock band Mors Principium Est. A special edition Digipak version was also released, with two bonus tracks....
     (1991)
  • In the Heat of Passion (also known as Heat of Passion) (1992)
  • In the Heat of Passion II: Unfaithful (also known as Behind Closed Doors and Unfaithful) (1994)
  • The Crazysitter (also known as Two Much Trouble) (1995)
  • Mother
    Mother (1996 film)

    Mother is a 1996 in film directed and written by Albert Brooks, and starring Brooks and Debbie Reynolds. The comedy involves a failed science fiction writer who attempts to improve his relations with his mother by moving in with her....
     (1996)
  • Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
    Romy and Michele's High School Reunion

    Romy and Michele's High School Reunion is a 1997 in film comedy film starring Lisa Kudrow, Mira Sorvino, Janeane Garofalo, Camryn Manheim, and Alan Cumming....
     (1997)
  • Clockwatchers
    Clockwatchers

    Clockwatchers is an American comedy-drama film released in 1997 in film. Directed by Jill Sprecher, it stars Parker Posey, Lisa Kudrow, Toni Collette and Alanna Ubach as Temporary work in an office complex....
     (1997)
  • Hacks (also known as Sink or Swim and The Big Twist) (1997)
  • The Opposite of Sex
    The Opposite of Sex

    The Opposite of Sex is a 1998 in film film written and directed by Don Roos. It stars Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan and Lisa Kudrow. The film marked departures for both Ricci and Kudrow, cast against type for the roles they were known for at the time ....
     (1998)
  • Analyze This
    Analyze This

    Analyze This is a 1999 movie produced by Warner Bros.. Directed by Harold Ramis, it features Robert De Niro as a mafioso and Billy Crystal as a psychiatrist....
     (1999)
  • Hanging Up
    Hanging Up

    Hanging Up is a 2000 United States comedy-drama film about a trio of sisters who bond over their ambivalence toward the approaching death of their curmudgeonly father, to whom none of them was particularly close....
     (2000)
  • Lucky Numbers
    Lucky Numbers

    Lucky Numbers is a 2000 in film comedy film film written by Adam Resnick, directed by Nora Ephron, and starring John Travolta, Lisa Kudrow, Tim Roth, Ed O'Neill, Michael Rapaport, Bill Pullman, Michael Moore and Chuck Rhodes....
     (2000)
  • All Over the Guy
    All Over the Guy

    All Over the Guy is an American gay-themed romantic comedy film directed by Julie Davis in 2001 in film....
     (2001)
  • Dr. Dolittle 2
    Dr. Dolittle 2

    Dr. Dolittle 2 is an United States comedy film, the theatrical sequel to Dr. Dolittle . The continuing tale of the doctor who can talk to the animals--this time, it's Dolittle versus Darwin when the animals launch a labor strike to protect their forest from unscrupulous human developers....
     (2001)
  • Bark! (2002)
  • Analyze That
    Analyze That

    Analyze That is a 2002 in film comedy film, and a sequel to the 1999 film Analyze This. The film was directed and co-written by Harold Ramis and stars Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal who respectively reprise their roles as mobster Paul Vitti and psychiatrist Ben Sobel....
     (2002)
  • Marci X
    Marci X

    Marci X is a 2003 in film romantic comedy film, directed by Richard Benjamin and written by Paul Rudnick. It stars Lisa Kudrow as Jewish-American Princess Marci Feld, who has to take control of a hip-hop record label, as well as the controversial rapper Dr S....
     (2003)
  • Wonderland
    Wonderland (film)

    Wonderland is a 2003 in film about the Wonderland Murders starring Val Kilmer, Kate Bosworth and Lisa Kudrow. It was directed by James Cox ....
     (2003)
  • Happy Endings
    Happy Endings

    Happy Endings is a 2005 Lions Gate Entertainment picture directed by Don Roos and starring Lisa Kudrow, Tom Arnold, Steve Coogan and Maggie Gyllenhaal....
     (2005)
  • Kabluey
    Kabluey

    Kabluey is a 2008 in film comedy film written and directed by Scott Prendergast. It stars Prendergast, as well as Lisa Kudrow, Teri Garr, Christine Taylor, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan....
     (2007)
  • P.S. I Love You
    P.S. I Love You (film)

    P.S. I Love You is a 2006 in film United States drama film directed by Richard LaGravenese. The screenplay by LaGravenese and Steven Rogers is based on the 2004 PS, I Love You by Cecelia Ahern....
     (2008)
  • Hotel for Dogs
    Hotel for Dogs (film)

    Hotel for Dogs is a 2009 in film Cinema of the United States feature film film adaptation of the Lois Duncan Hotel for Dogs about two orphans who take in stray dogs at an empty house....
     (2009)
  • 17 Photos of Isabel
    17 Photos of Isabel

    17 Photos of Isabel is a movie adaption of Ayelet Waldman's novel, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits.Cast*Natalie Portman as Emilia Greenleaf...
     (2009)
  • Powder Blue
    Powder Blue (film)

    Powder Blue is an upcoming 2009 in film direct-to-video drama film with an ensemble cast featuring several interconnected story arcs. It is written and directed by Timothy Linh Bui....
     (2009)
  • Bandslam (2009)
  • Paper Man (2009)


Web series

  • Web Therapy (2008)


Awards and nominations

Satellite Awards
Satellite Awards

The Satellite Awards are an annual award given by the International Press Academy. The awards were originally known as the Golden Satellite Awards....
  • 2008 - Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical, "Kabluey
    Kabluey

    Kabluey is a 2008 in film comedy film written and directed by Scott Prendergast. It stars Prendergast, as well as Lisa Kudrow, Teri Garr, Christine Taylor, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan....
    " - (Nominated)


Emmy Awards
  • 1995 - Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, "Friends
    Friends

    Friends is an American situation comedy created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994. The series revolves around a group of friends in the area of Manhattan, New York City, who occasionally live together and share living expenses....
    " - (Nominated)
  • 1997 - Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, "Friends
    Friends

    Friends is an American situation comedy created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994. The series revolves around a group of friends in the area of Manhattan, New York City, who occasionally live together and share living expenses....
    " - (Nominated)
  • 1998 - Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, "Friends
    Friends

    Friends is an American situation comedy created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994. The series revolves around a group of friends in the area of Manhattan, New York City, who occasionally live together and share living expenses....
    " - (Won)
  • 1999 - Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, "Friends
    Friends

    Friends is an American situation comedy created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994. The series revolves around a group of friends in the area of Manhattan, New York City, who occasionally live together and share living expenses....
    " - (Nominated)
  • 2000 - Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, "Friends
    Friends

    Friends is an American situation comedy created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994. The series revolves around a group of friends in the area of Manhattan, New York City, who occasionally live together and share living expenses....
    " - (Nominated)
  • 2001 - Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, "Friends
    Friends

    Friends is an American situation comedy created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994. The series revolves around a group of friends in the area of Manhattan, New York City, who occasionally live together and share living expenses....
    " - (Nominated)
  • 2006 - Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, "The Comeback
    The Comeback (TV series)

    The Comeback is a Television program produced by HBO that stars actress Lisa Kudrow as sitcom actress Valerie Cherish in modern-day Los Angeles, California....
    " - (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
    Friends

    Friends is an American situation comedy created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994. The series revolves around a group of friends in the area of Manhattan, New York City, who occasionally live together and share living expenses....
    " (Nominated)


Screen Actors Guild Awards
Screen Actors Guild Awards

The Screen Actors Guild Awards are an annual award given by the Screen Actors Guild to recognize outstanding performances by members.SAG Awards have been one of the major awards events in Hollywood since 1995....
  • 1996 - Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series, "Friends
    Friends

    Friends is an American situation comedy created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994. The series revolves around a group of friends in the area of Manhattan, New York City, who occasionally live together and share living expenses....
    " - (Nominated)
  • 1999 - Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series, "Friends
    Friends

    Friends is an American situation comedy created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994. The series revolves around a group of friends in the area of Manhattan, New York City, who occasionally live together and share living expenses....
    " - (Nominated)
  • 2000 - Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series, "Friends
    Friends

    Friends is an American situation comedy created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994. The series revolves around a group of friends in the area of Manhattan, New York City, who occasionally live together and share living expenses....
    " - (Won)
  • 2004 - Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series, "Friends
    Friends

    Friends is an American situation comedy created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994. The series revolves around a group of friends in the area of Manhattan, New York City, who occasionally live together and share living expenses....
    " - (Nominated)


American Comedy Awards
American Comedy Awards

The American Comedy Awards were a group of awards presented annually in the United States from 1987 to 2001 recognizing performances and performers in the field of comedy, with an emphasis on television comedy and comedy films....
  • 1996 - Funniest Supporting Female Performer in a TV Series, "Friends
    Friends

    Friends is an American situation comedy created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994. The series revolves around a group of friends in the area of Manhattan, New York City, who occasionally live together and share living expenses....
    " - (Nominated)
  • 1999 - Funniest Supporting Female Performer in a TV Series, "Friends
    Friends

    Friends is an American situation comedy created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994. The series revolves around a group of friends in the area of Manhattan, New York City, who occasionally live together and share living expenses....
    " - (Nominated)
  • 1999 - Funniest Female Guest Appearance in a TV Series, "Mad About You
    Mad About You

    Mad About You is an United States sitcom that aired on NBC from September 23, 1992, to May 23, 1999. The show starred Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt as a newly married couple in New York City....
    " - (Nominated)
  • 1999 - Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture, "The Opposite of Sex
    The Opposite of Sex

    The Opposite of Sex is a 1998 in film film written and directed by Don Roos. It stars Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan and Lisa Kudrow. The film marked departures for both Ricci and Kudrow, cast against type for the roles they were known for at the time ....
    " - (Nominated)
  • 2000 - Funniest Supporting Female Performer in a TV Series, "Friends
    Friends

    Friends is an American situation comedy created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994. The series revolves around a group of friends in the area of Manhattan, New York City, who occasionally live together and share living expenses....
    " - (Won)
  • 2000 - Funniest Female Performer in a TV Special (Leading or Supporting) Network, Cable or Syndication, "1999 MTV Movie Awards
    MTV Movie Awards

    The MTV Movie Awards is a film awards show presented annually on MTV . It also contains movie parodies that used official movie footage with hosts and other celebrities and music performances....
    " - (Nominated)
  • 2000 - Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture, "Analyze This
    Analyze This

    Analyze This is a 1999 movie produced by Warner Bros.. Directed by Harold Ramis, it features Robert De Niro as a mafioso and Billy Crystal as a psychiatrist....
    " - (Nominated)
  • 2001 - Funniest Supporting Female Performer in a TV Series, "Friends
    Friends

    Friends is an American situation comedy created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994. The series revolves around a group of friends in the area of Manhattan, New York City, who occasionally live together and share living expenses....
    " - (Nominated)


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