Lisa Valerie Kudrow ( KOO-droh; born July 30, 1963) is an American actress. She rose to international fame for her role as Phoebe Buffay in the American television sitcom
Friends, which aired from 1994 to 2004. The series earned her Primetime Emmy, Screen Actors Guild, Satellite, American Comedy and TV Guide awards. Phoebe has since been named one of the greatest television characters of all time and is considered to be Kudrow's breakout role, spawning her successful film career. Kudrow initially appeared in a 1989 episode of the hit sitcom
Cheers playing a character named Emily. She also starred in several episodes of the show
Mad About You (1993) as Ursula, before auditioning and earning the role of Phoebe on
Friends; her character on
Mad About You was initially written-into the
Friends storyline as Phoebe’s twin. In the late 1990s,...
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