Lisa Kudrow is a famous American actress who is best known for her character Phoebe Buffay on the hit NBC show Friends.
Other notable Lisa Kudrow credits include The Comeback, Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, Clockwatchers, Hacks, The Opposite of Sex,
Analyze This, Hang Up, Lucky Numbers, All Over the Guy, Dr. Dolittle 2, Bark!, Marci X, Wonderland, Happy Endings,
Kabluey, P.S. I Love You, Powder Blue, and Hotel for Dog.
On Friends, she played Phoebe Buffay, the spacey, eclectic blonde. She had played a similar role on the hit show Mad About You with a character named Ursula Buffay. The shows writers decided to make her Friends role a spin-off of that character, making the two characters
twins sisters.
She became the first cast member of Friends to win an Emmy, and of the cast, she received the most nominations, 6, over the shows tenure. With Friends’s tenth season, she (along with cast members
Courteney Cox and
Jennifer Aniston) became the highest paid woman in television history, garnering one million dollars an episode.
In her personal life, she was once romantically involved with Conan O’Brien. In 1995, she married a French advertising executive named Michael Stern. The couple now has a son named Julian Murray.
