Lisa Valerie Kudrow is an American actress. Kudrow gained worldwide recognition in the '90s for portraying Phoebe Buffay in the television sitcom Friends, for which she received many accolades including an Emmy Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. Kudrow has also had a career in film, appearing in many films including Romy and Michele's High School Reunion , Analyze This , Dr. Dolittle 2 , Happy Endings , P.S. I Love You , Bandslam , and Easy A . Lisa Kudrow was born in Encino, Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Nedra S. , a travel agent, and Dr. Lee N. Kudrow , a headache... specialist and physician. Her ancestors emigrated from Belarus and lived in the village of Ilya, in the Minsk area, and her great-grandmother was murdered in the Holocaust. Kudrow was raised in a middle-class Jewish family and has an older sister, Helene Marla , and an older brother, neurologist David B. Kudrow . She is the niece of composer/conductor Harold Farberman. She took guitar lessons as a child and is left-handed.
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| Birthdate: | July 30, 1963 |
| Birthplace: | Encino, California |
| Age: | 48 |
| Height: | 5' 8" |
| Education: | Vassar College, Taft High School |
| Also known as: | Lisa Marie Diane Kudrow, Lisa Kudrow, lisa_kudrow |