标题：Lisa Edelstein
人物简介
Lisa Edelstein (pronounced /ˈliːsə ˈɛdəlstiːn/ "LEE-suh EDDLE-steen"; born May 21, 1966, Boston, Massachusetts, USA) is an award-winning American actress and playwright. She currently stars as Dr. Lisa Cuddy on the critically acclaimed drama House.
Lisa Edelstein (中文音译：莉萨·埃德尔斯坦) 于1966年5月21日出生在美国麻省的波士顿。她是一位优秀的女演员和剧作家。她目前在备受瞩目的美剧豪斯医生（House）中扮演院长Lisa Cuddy一角。
早年生活
Lisa Edelstein was born to Jewish parents Alvin and Bonnie Edelstein in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Her father is a pediatrician in New Jersey at Chilton Memorial Hospital. One of three children, she was raised in Wayne, New Jersey and attended Wayne Valley High School, graduating in 1984.[1] She moved to New York City at the age of 18 to study theatre at New York University's Tisch School of the Fine Arts. While living in New York, she became involved in the club scene known only as "Lisa E.", and caused enough of a stir in the community to be dubbed New York City's "Queen of Downtown" by writer and fellow celebutante James St. James, who briefly refers to Edelstein in his 1999 book Disco Bloodbath.
Lisa Edelstein生于美国马萨诸塞州波士顿的一个犹太家庭，父亲Bonnie Edelstein，是新泽西Chilton纪念医院的儿科医生，母亲叫Alvin Edelstein，家里有三个孩子。Lisa Edelstein 在新泽西的Wayne长大，就读于Wayne Valley高中并于1984年毕业，18岁进入纽约大学Tisch艺术学院学习戏剧。在纽约的那段岁月，她开始只是夜店里的"Lisa E"，之后因被作家、社交新贵James St. James钦点为“下城女王”而在圈子里名噪一时，后者在其1999年出的书《Disco Bloodbath》也提到过Lisa Edelstein。90年代为Gay Men's Health Crisis做志愿者，探望医院中濒死的艾滋病人。
演艺生涯
After being dubbed a "celebutante" by Newsweek magazine during her club kid days [2], Edelstein used her newfound celebrity to write, compose and star in an original musical called Positive Me in response to the growing AIDS crisis of the 1980s. After a brief stint hosting Awake on the Wild Side for MTV in 1990, she spent the early '90s appearing in guest roles on several popular comedies, including Mad About You, Wings, The Larry Sanders Show and Seinfeld, where she played George Costanza's frustrated girlfriend.
Bigger roles in TV dramas soon followed, among them the lesbian sister on ABC's Relativity in 1996; Rob Lowe's date turned high-priced call girl on The West Wing in 1999; a male-to-female transsexual on Ally McBeal in 2000 and Ben's girlfriend on Felicity in 2001. She also continued to land guest star spots on shows such as ER, Frasier, Just Shoot Me, Without a Trace and Judging Amy.
The actress has lent her voice to several animated programs including King of the Hill, American Dad, Superman: The Animated Series (as Mercy Graves, Lex Luthor's bodyguard, a role she later reprised in several episodes of Justice League) and the 1997 video game adaptation of Blade Runner. Edelstein's film credits include What Women Want with Mel Gibson, Keeping the Faith with Ben Stiller, As Good as it Gets with Jack Nicholson and Daddy Day Care with Eddie Murphy.
In 2004, she was cast as Dr. Cuddy, the Dean of Medicine at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital and frequent character foil to title character Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) on FOX's hit show House, M.D..
She will star in Lifetime Movie Network's Special Delivery alongside Brenda Song. [3]
在凭籍那段夜店动物生活被《新闻周刊》评为社交新贵之后，借由新近积累的人气Edelstein自编自演了反映上世纪80年代艾滋危机的原创音乐剧《Positive Me》。1990年她只拍了一支MTV——《Awake on the Wild Side》，90年代初期在一系列热门剧里客串演出，包括《Mad About You》、《Wings》、《The Larry Sanders Show》、《Seinfeld》——在此剧里扮演 George Costanza的女友。不久她得到了一些戏份更多的角色，包括1996 ABC的剧集《Relativity》中的同性恋妹妹，1999年《The West Wing》里Rob Lowe约会的高级应召女郎，2000年《Ally McBeal》变成女人的变性人，以及2001《Felicity》里Ben的女友。同时她也继续在《ER》,《Frasier》,《Just Shoot Me》,《Without a Trace and Judging Amy》等片中客串演出。
她还为动画片配音包括《 King of the Hill》《American Dad》《Superman: The Animated Series》（扮演Mercy Graves, Lex Luthor的保镖, 该桥段之后又在《Justice League》中多次出现），以及1997年根据游戏改编的《Blade Runner》。Edelstein参演的影片包括与Mel Gibson合作的《What Women Want》,BenStiller的《Keeping the Faith》, Jack Nicholson与Helen Hunt的《As Good as it Gets》，以及Eddie Murphy的《Daddy Day Care》。
2004年，Edelstein在福克斯热播剧《豪斯医生》中扮演普林斯顿大学附属医院的院长Cuddy。
个人经历
Edelstein currently resides in a century-old home in Los Angeles with her cat and three rescue dogs.[4] She is a vegetarian [5] and an avid practitioner of Mysore style Ashtanga Yoga. She frequently volunteers for the Best Friends Animal Society. In her spare time she enjoys writing, painting and composing music.
Edelstein目前和她的猫、三只搜救犬一起住在洛杉矶一栋1913年建成的房子里。她是素食主义者，热衷Mysore式阿斯汤伽瑜伽（Ashtanga Yoga），经常为动物保护组织Best Friends Animal Society做义工，空闲时喜欢写作、画画、作曲。她的姓Edelstein在日耳曼语系里意为宝石。