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Lisa Edelstein (/ˈliːsə ˈɛdəlstiːn/; born May 21, 1966)[1] is an American actress. She is known for playing Dr. Lisa Cuddy on the Fox medical drama series House MD 2004-2011. Between 2014 and 2018, Edelstein starred as Abby McCarthy in the Bravo series Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce. She is also the voice of Mercy Graves in the DC Animated Universe.

Lisa Edelstein
Edelstein in 2007
Born	(1966-05-21) May 21, 1966 (age 56) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Alma mater	New York University
Occupation	Actress playwright
Years active	1990–present
Spouse	Robert Russell ​ (m. 2014)​

Early life

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

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

She moved to New York City at the age of 18 to study theatre at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.[6] While living in New York, she became involved in the club scene (known there only as "Lisa E") and caused enough of a stir in the community to be dubbed New York City's "Queen of the Night" by writer and fellow celebutant James St. James, who briefly refers to Edelstein in his 1999 book Disco Bloodbath.[7] Her Lisa E. persona was the focus of a feature article by Maureen Dowd in The New York Times in 1986.[8]

Career

Actress

After being dubbed a "celebutante" by The New York Times magazine during her Club Kid days,[3] Edelstein used her new-found celebrity to write, compose and star in an original musical called Positive Me[9] in response to the growing AIDS crisis of the 1980s. The play, performed at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in New York City, received many accolades.[3][10] After an unsuccessful stint hosting Awake on the Wild Side for MTV in 1990,[11] she appeared as a backstage make-up artist in Oliver Stone's Jim Morrison biography The Doors, followed by guest roles on several popular comedies, including Mad About You, Wings, and The Larry Sanders Show. On Sports Night, she played a sports reporter who claimed to be a former lover of Josh Charles' character whom he did not remember. On Seinfeld, she played George Costanza's girlfriend in the episodes "The Masseuse" and "The Mango".

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

From 2004 to 2011, she portrayed her biggest and most notable role to date, Dr. Lisa Cuddy, the Dean of Medicine at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital and frequent adversary, friend, and eventual girlfriend of title character Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) on Fox's TV series House. Edelstein has often spoken fondly of her experiences on the show and fellow cast and crew, especially her friendship and strong working relationship with Laurie.

In May 2011, Edelstein announced that she would not return for the eighth and final season of House.[12] Starting in June 2011, she joined the cast of The Good Wife where she played lawyer Celeste Serrano.[13] She guest-starred in Scandal in 2013, and later three episodes of the ABC series Castle.

She also starred as the lead role of Abby McCarthy in the Bravo series Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce, an hour-long comedy-drama loosely based on the book series by Vicki Iovine and which premiered on December 2, 2014. In 2018, Edelstein joined the cast of ABC's The Good Doctor in season two as Dr. Marina Blaize in a recurring role. This reunited her with House creator David Shore.[14] Edelstein also plays a recurring character in The Kominsky Method, a Netflix series that debuted in November 2018.

She has lent her voice to several animated programs, including King of the Hill, American Dad!, Superman: The Animated Series (as Mercy Graves, Lex Luthor's bodyguard, a role she later reprised in several episodes of Justice League), The Legend of Korra (as Kya, Tenzin's sister) and the video game adaptation of Blade Runner.

In 2021/2022, she portrayed the role of Gwyneth Morgan, ex-wife of Owen Strand (Rob Lowe) and mother of TK Strand (Ronen Rubenstein) on the ABC drama series, 9-1-1: Lone Star.

Other appearances

Edelstein is a supporter of Best Friends Animal Society, of which she is an Ambassador. She supports human rights organizations and is a patron of the arts. She has appeared in numerous magazines, including the September 2010 cover of H magazine.[15] She posed for PETA in an ad promoting vegetarianism, a diet she has followed for most of her life.[16]

Personal life

On May 25, 2014, Edelstein married artist Robert Russell in Los Angeles.[17] She became a stepmother to Russell's two sons from a previous marriage.[18]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	The Doors	Makeup artist
1997	As Good as It Gets	Woman at table
1998	Susan's Plan	Penny Myers
1998	L.A. Without a Map	Sandra
1999	30 Days	Danielle
2000	Keeping the Faith	Ali Decker
2000	What Women Want	Dina
2003	Daddy Day Care	Crispin's mother
2005	Say Uncle	Sarah Faber
2013	She Loves Me Not	Amy
2016	Joshy	Claudia
2021	Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets	Elly

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1992	L.A. Law	Francine Flicker	Episode: "My Friend Flicker"
1992	Mad About You	Lynne Stoddard	Episode: "Out of the Past"
1993	Good Advice	Robin	Episode: "The Kiss"
1993	Seinfeld	Karen	Recurring; 2 Episodes
1993	Wings	Marsha Peebles	Episode: "Labor Pains"
1996	Ned & Stacey	Janine	Episode: "Friends and Lovers"
1994	The Larry Sanders Show	Diane French	Episode: "The Mr. Sharon Stone Show"
1994	Wild Oats	Unknown	Episode: "Pilot"
1995–97	Almost Perfect	Patty Karp	Recurring; 8 Episodes
1995	Partners	Cindy Wolfe	Episode: "Who's Afraid of Ron and Cindy Wolfe?"
1995	Superman: The Animated Series	Mercy Graves	Recurring; 9 Episodes Voice role
1996–97	Relativity	Rhonda Roth	Main
1997	ER	Aggi Orton	Episode: "Ambush"
1998	Frasier	Caitlin	Episode: "Frasier Gotta Have It"
1998	Just Shoot Me!	Erin Simons	Episode: "Sewer!"
1998	Indiscreet	Beth Sussman	Television movie
1999	Sports Night	Bobbi Bernstein	Recurring; 2 Episodes
1999–2000	The West Wing	Laurie "Brittany" Rollins	Recurring; 5 Episodes
2000	Grosse Pointe	Shawn Shapiro	Episode: "Satisfaction"
2000–01	Ally McBeal	Cindy McCauliff	Recurring; 5 Episodes
2001	Black River	Laura	Television movie
2001–02	Felicity	Lauren	Recurring; 6 Episodes
2002	Obsessed	Charlotte	Television movie
2002	Leap of Faith	Patty	Main
2003	A Date with Darkness: The Trial and Capture of Andrew Luster	Maeve Fox	Television movie
2003	Without a Trace	Dr. Lianna Sardo	Episode: "Moving On"
2003	The Practice	Diane Ward	Recurring; 2 Episodes
2003	Justice League	Mercy Graves	Recurring; 2 Episodes Voice
2004	Judging Amy	Sylvia Danforth	Episode: "The Quick and the Dead"
2005	Justice League Unlimited	Mercy Graves	Episode: "Clash"
2005	Fathers and Sons	Irene	Television movie
2004–11	House	Dr. Lisa Cuddy	Main: Seasons 1-7 People's Choice Award for Favorite TV Drama Actress Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
2007	King of the Hill	Alexis	Episode: "The Powder Puff Boys"
2007–11	American Dad!	Sharri Rothberg	Recurring; 6 Episodes
2008	Special Delivery	Maxine Carter	Television movie
2011	Childrens Hospital	Herself/Lisa Cuddy	Episode: "Run, Dr. Lola Spratt, Run!"
2011	The Good Wife	Celeste Serano	Recurring; 3 Episodes
2011	Paul The Male Matchmaker	Jillian	Episode: "Know When You Are Not Ready"
2012	Blue-Eyed Butcher	Kelly Siegler	Television movie
2012	Elementary	Heather Van Owen	Episode: "The Long Fuse"
2013	House of Lies	Brynn	Recurring; 2 Episodes
2013	Scandal	Sarah Stanner	Episode: "Top of the Hour"
2013	Castle	Rachel McCord	Recurring; 3 Episodes
2013–14	The Legend of Korra	Kya	Recurring; 14 Episodes Voice
2014–18	Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce	Abby McCarthy	Main
2018–19	The Good Doctor	Dr. Marina Blaize	Recurring; 6 Episodes
2018–19, 2021	The Kominsky Method	Phoebe	Recurring Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
2021-22	9-1-1: Lone Star	Gwyneth Morgan	Recurring (season 2); guest (season 3)[19]

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	Blade Runner	Crystal Steele

Podcasts

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2020	Borrasca	Leah Dixon

Awards

• In 2005, she accepted the award for Television Series drama at the 10th Annual Satellite Awards for her portrayal of Dr. Lisa Cuddy on House.
• In 2011, she won the People's Choice Award for Best Drama Actress in a TV Series for her portrayal of Dr. Lisa Cuddy on House.[20]

References

External links

• Lisa Edelstein at IMDb
• Lisa Edelstein at AllMovie
• Lisa Edelstein's artist page on La MaMa's Digital Collections Website

На других языках

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[de] Lisa Edelstein

Lisa Edelstein (* 21. Mai 1967[1] in Boston, Massachusetts) ist eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin. Bekannt wurde sie vor allem durch ihre Rolle der Krankenhausleiterin Dr. Lisa Cuddy in der US-Serie Dr. House.

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- [en] Lisa Edelstein

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[es] Lisa Edelstein

Lisa Edelstein (Boston, 21 de mayo de 1966) es una actriz estadounidense. Es conocida por haber interpretado el papel de la doctora Lisa Cuddy en House M.D..

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[ru] Эдельштейн, Лиза

Ли́за Э́дельштейн (англ. Lisa Edelstein; произносится Ли́са Э́делстин — МФА [ˈliːsə ˈɛdəlstiːn][1], род. 21 мая 1966, Бостон, Массачусетс, США) — американская актриса и драматург, наиболее известная благодаря роли Лизы Кадди в сериале «Доктор Хаус».

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