Lisa Edelstein is an American actress and artist.
27 Facts About Lisa Edelstein
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Lisa Edelstein is known for playing Dr Lisa Cuddy on the Fox medical drama series House.
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Between 2014 and 2018, Edelstein starred as Abby McCarthy in the Bravo series Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce.
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Lisa Edelstein was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Bonnie and Alvin Lisa Edelstein, the youngest of three children in a Jewish family.
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Lisa Edelstein's father worked as a pediatrician at Chilton Memorial Hospital.
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Lisa Edelstein was raised in Wayne, New Jersey, and attended Wayne Valley High School, graduating in 1984.
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At 16, Lisa Edelstein was a cheerleader for the New Jersey Generals.
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Lisa Edelstein said she felt they were treated "like hookers" and helped organize a cheerleader walkout.
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Lisa Edelstein followed that with a short stint hosting MTV's Awake on the Wild Side in 1990, then began working in earnest as an actress.
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Lisa Edelstein got her SAG card appearing as a backstage make-up artist in Oliver Stone's Jim Morrison biography The Doors, and then landed a quick series of guest roles on several popular comedies, including Mad About You, Wings, The Larry Sanders Show and Sports Night, where she played a sports reporter who claimed to be a former lover of Josh Charles' character whom he did not remember.
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Lisa 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.
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In May 2011, Lisa Edelstein announced that she would not return for the eighth and final season of House.
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Lisa Edelstein guest-starred in Scandal in 2013, and later three episodes of the ABC series Castle.
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In 2014, Lisa Edelstein got her dream job landing the lead role of Abby McCarthy in the Bravo series Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce, an hour-long dramedy loosely based on the book series by Vicki Iovine focusing on the lives of newly divorced, mid-life women.
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In 2018, Lisa Edelstein joined the cast of ABC's The Good Doctor in season two as Dr Marina Blaize in a recurring role.
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Lisa Edelstein then joined the award winning The Kominsky Method, a Netflix series that debuted in November 2018, playing the drug addled daughter of Alan Arkin and working alongside such actors such as Michael Douglas, Paul Reiser and Chuck Lorre.
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Lisa Edelstein is a supporter of Best Friends Animal Society, of which she is an Ambassador.
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Lisa Edelstein supports human rights organizations and is a patron of the arts.
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Lisa Edelstein has appeared in numerous magazines, including the September 2010 cover of H magazine.
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Lisa Edelstein posed for PETA in an ad promoting vegetarianism, a diet she has followed for most of her life.
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Lisa Edelstein began working with magic marker and at the suggestion of her artist husband Robert Russell, switched to watercolor as the size of each piece grew.
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Lisa Edelstein's collection has been featured in Forbes, Surface, and Gio Journal.
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On May 25,2014, Lisa Edelstein married artist Robert Russell in Los Angeles.
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Lisa Edelstein became a stepmother to Russell's two sons from a previous marriage.
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Lisa Edelstein has been nominated by the Screen Actors Guild for the following performances:.
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Lisa Edelstein has won the International Press Academy's Satellite Awards for the following performances:.
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Lisa Edelstein has won the Women's Image Network Awards for the following performances:.