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Lisa Edelstein
Birth at
21 May 1966
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Lisa Edelstein was born on May 21, 1966, to a Jewish family in Boston, Massachusetts. Her father, Alvin, is a pediatrician in New Jersey at Chilton Memorial Hospital. At the age of 18, Lisa moved to New York to study theater at the New York University School of Fine Arts. One of Edelstein’s first roles was in the musical Positive Me, a musical dedicated to the fight against AIDS. On television, Lisa appeared on Awake on the Wild Side, which was broadcast on cable television. Also of her notable
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Lisa Edelstein was born on May 21, 1966, to a Jewish family in Boston, Massachusetts. Her father, Alvin, is a pediatrician in New Jersey at Chilton Memorial Hospital. At the age of 18, Lisa moved to New York to study theater at the New York University School of Fine Arts. One of Edelstein’s first roles was in the musical Positive Me, a musical dedicated to the fight against AIDS.
On television, Lisa appeared on Awake on the Wild Side, which was broadcast on cable television. Also of her notable roles were: a call girl in the series “The West Wing”, the sister of David Conrad in “Relativity”, the transexual friend of James LeGros in “Ellie McBeal” and the orthodox Jew in the series “Family Law”.She was seen in such famous films as “What Women Want” with Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt, “It’s Better” with Jack Nicholson, in “Daddy Day Care” with Eddie Murphy and “Keeing the Faith” with Edward Nottier.
In 2004, she was cast as Dr. Lisa Cuddy, Chief Physician at Princeton Plaisboro Hospital, on the TV series House. She lives in a century-old house in Los Angeles with a cat and three dogs she has sheltered. Vegetarian, doing yoga. In his free time he writes, composes music and draws.