Lisa Kudrow

Co-starred in the independent comedy film, Kabluey

Played a supporting role, opposite Hillary Swank in P.S. I Love You

Co-starred in Happy Endings, a comedic drama about the ups and downs of relationships

Co-wrote with Michael Patrick King and starred in the comedy series Comeback (HBO); show suffered low ratings and was not renewed for a second season; earned an Emmy nomination for Best Actress

With writer-actor Dan Bucatinsky, signed a two-year development deal with Warner Bros

Had title role as a spoiled young woman forced to assume control of a rap/hip-hop record label in Marci X

Played a woman who suffers a nervous breakdown and begins to think she s a dog in Bark ; screened at Sundance

Reprised role as Billy Crystal s wife in Analyze That

Cast opposite John Travolta in Lucky Numbers ; directed by Nora Ephron

Played a ditsy soap opera actress and the youngest of three sisters in Hanging Up co-starring Meg Ryan and Diane Keaton (who also directed); film was co-written by Nora and Delia Ephron

Co-starred with Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal in Analyze This

Appeared alongside Parker Posey and Toni Collette in the ensemble comedy-drama Clockwatchers

Earned rave reviews for her supporting turn as the repressed schoolteacher Lucia in The Opposite of Sex

Voiced the character of Aphrodite in the animated series Hercules

Played first screen lead, opposite Mira Sorvino in Romy and Michelle s High School Reunion

Played the blind date of Albert Brooks in Mother

TV series debut as a regular in the role of Phoebe Buffay, twin of Ursula, on the NBC sitcom Friends ; earned Emmy (1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001), Golden Globe (1996) and SAG (1996, 1999, 2004) nominations for Supporting Actress

Cast in a recurring role on the short-lived CBS sitcom Bob

Joined the cast of Mad About You (NBC) in the recurring role of ditzy waitress Ursula (this character would later appear in Friends as Phoebe s twin sister)

Feature acting debut, The Unborn

TV-movie debut, Murder in High Places (NBC)

Filmed role in Sandra Locke s Impulse ; part was cut out of released feature

Episodic TV debut, Cheers (NBC), playing the girlfriend of bartender Woody Boyd (Woody Harrelson)

Joined the improv group The Groundlings

Reprised her role from the play Ladies Room for the pilot Just Temporary ; series not picked up by NBC

Made L.A. stage debut in the comedy Ladies Room

After college, at the suggestion of her brother s friend Jon Lovitz, auditioned for The Groundlings, an improv troupe; was not accepted, but was referred to acting teacher Cynthia Szigeti

Originally hired for the role of Roz in Frasier (NBC); fired during rehearsals for the pilot

Raised in the San Fernando Valley in California