Full Name:Lisa Kudrow Stern
Character Name:Phoebe Buffay
D.O.B:July
30, 1963 - Leo
Place of Birth:Encino, California
Height:5' 7"
Husband:Michel Stern
Children:Son: Julian Murray
Siblings:Sister:
Helene Sherman, artist Brothers: David Kudrow, neurologist and Derrick Kudrow
Interesting Facts:
• Currently lives in Los Angeles.
• Lisa dated Conan
O'Brian in the late 1980's.
• She was originally hired for the role of Roz in Frasier, but got fired during rehearsals
for the pilot.
• Also played Ursula, on Mad About You, who is Phoebe's twin sister.
• Lisa's son, Julian
Murray, was born May 6,1998.
• Lisa is left handed.
• Kudrow has made appearances on several "worst dressed"
lists in American magazines, but because of her characters clothes rather than her own.
• Lisa has a degree in biology.
•
Lisa is a pool shark who has mastered some of the more difficult trick shots.
Awards
1995:
Screen Actors Guild Award: Ensemble in a Television Comedy Series, Friends; shared with cast members
1998: Emmy:
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, Friends
1998: New York Film Critics Circle: Best Supporting Actress,
The Opposite of Sex
1999: Screen Actors Guild: Female Actor in a Television Comedy Series, Friends
2000:
American Comedy Award: Funniest Female Supporting Performer in a Television Series, Friends
2002: Emmy: Outstanding
Comedy Series, Friends; shared with cast members
Quotes:
"I always felt like I could be funny, but there was a part of me
that always judged actors so harshly...I thought all actors were dumb--that they must have serious emotional problems. Even
if they don't, that's the perception I had of them. I didn't want anyone to see me that way." --Detour, May 1997
Said "People talk slower to me, as if I were a ten year old.", when
on the topic of her on-screen character, Phoebe.