 Lisa Kudrow |
Phoebe BuffayLisa Kudrow is playing Phoebe Buffay a spacey but lovely girl in the mid-twenties, who have had some bad luck in her life. Despite of that fact she's a very positive person, trying to cheer up anyone thats feeling down. She's not very smart, but Friends is a sitcom - and stupid people are very common in these kind of productions. Anyway she has an Identical twin named Ursula, but they hardly never meet. Phoebe and her twinsister Ursula was adopted when they were very small. When they were 14 years old their mother killed herself, and Phoebe had to live on the street (what happened to Ursula is not told in the story..). Phoebe finds a man 'Albino Bob' who she moves in to, and after a while he takes his life.. and.. well let's just say she'd never had it easy She has been working at a 'Massage Institute' (oh! no people no such feelings) but after her boss has caught her and a customer kissing, she was fired. Since then she's really not doing anything, except singing her awful songs at Central Perk, and decorating her own shoes... About her self:For her performance as the spacey but lovable Phoebe Buffay, Lisa Kudrow has earned two Emmy Award nominations (1994-95, 1996-97) for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She also has received Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and American Comedy Award nominations. Kudrow graduated from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY with a B.S. degree in biology. Intending to pursue a career in research, she returned to Los Angeles and began working with her father, a world-renowned headache specialist. In all likelihood, Kudrow would be a researcher today if she had not been inspired to perform by one of her brother's friends, actor/comedian Jon Lovitz. Kudrow began studying with Cynthia Szigeti, a well-known improvisation teacher based in Los Angeles. In that class she met and became close friends with then-unknown Conan O'Brien. In 1989, her dream of becoming a performer became a reality when she was accepted as a member of the famed Los Angeles improv group, The Groundlings. A recurring role as Ursula, the ditzy waitress on the comedy series "Mad About You," led to Kudrow's starring role on "Friends." Kudrow has had success on the big screen too. Most recently, she starred in the hit comedy "Romy & Michele's High School Reunion" with Mira Sorvino. Before that she co-starred in Albert Brooks' comedy "Mother." She has a starring role in the upcoming film "Clockwatchers" with Toni Collette ("Muriel's Wedding") and during this summer's hiatus from "Friends," Kudrow starred with Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan and Lyle Lovett in "The Opposite Sex." |