Anne Dudek

Anne Louise Dudek (born March 22, 1975)[1] is an American actress. She is known for portraying Tiffany Wilson in the 2004 film White Chicks, Danielle Brookson in the USA Network television series Covert Affairs, Dr. Amber Volakison the Fox series House, Lura Grant on the HBO series Big Love, and Francine Hanson on the AMC series Mad Men. She has also starred in the British television series The Book Group.
== Early life ==
Dudek was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in Newton, Massachusetts.[2] Her father was an architect.[3] She graduated from Newton North High School and attended Northwestern University.[4]
== Career ==
From the mid-1990s (while at Northwestern University) through 2001, Dudek appeared in various theater productions and on Broadway. She made her Broadway debut in Wrong Mountain in 2000.[5] She won the Connecticut Critics Circle Award for outstanding performance in The Glass Menagerie.[6]
After success on Broadway, she made the jump to television. Her first starring role on television came when she was cast as the lead in the British comedy drama The Book Group. The show aired on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom to rave reviews. In her native United States, Dudek has since guest starred on other TV shows, including Desperate Housewives (as Karl Mayer's girlfriend in Season 1), How I Met Your Mother (as Ted's Krav Maga-trained ex-girlfriend), Friends (as 'Precious', Mike Hannigan's girlfriend), ER (as a mother who accidentally shot her son), Charmed, Bones (as Seeley Booth's lawyer girlfriend), Numb3rs, and Six Feet Under. She also played Lucinda Barry in the pilot episode of Psych, and a teacher who has a sexual relationship with one of her students (based on the case of Debra Lafave) on Law & Order: Criminal Intent. In both Friends and How I Met Your Mother, her character was dumped on her birthday.[7] Dudek appeared in several episodes of the HBO series Big Love as a child bride.
Dudek had a recurring role on House (from season 4 onwards) as Dr. Amber Volakis, one of 40 physicians under consideration by Dr. House for permanent positions on his team. Her character, nicknamed "Cutthroat Bitch" by House, continued to the end of season 4 but was killed off in the two-part season finale, "House's Head" and "Wilson's Heart". She would later reappear as a hallucination by House in the season 5 episode "Saviors", appearing in this form for the remainder of the season.
Dudek later appeared in Mad Men as next-door neighbor Francine Hanson, and on Big Love as one of antagonist Alby Grant's wives, both recurring roles. In 2010, she joined the cast of Covert Affairs. She played Anthony Hopkins' character's daughter in the 2003 film The Human Stain, and cruise line heir Tiffany Wilson in the 2004 comedy film White Chicks. In 2012, she played an ISSastronaut in one episode of the TV show Touch. She also reprised her role as Amber Volakis for the House series finale "Everybody Dies".
In 2015, Dudek played villainess Dawn Lin in an episode of NCIS: New Orleans, and also made a guest appearance in the fifth season finale of Rizzoli & Isles. In 2017, she recurred on The Flash as Tracy Brand.
== Personal life ==
Dudek was married to artist Matthew Heller. They have a son, Akiva, born in December 2008,[8] and a daughter, Saskia, born in February 2012.[9] The pair divorced in 2016.[10]
== Filmography ==
=== Film ===
Year	Title 	Role 	Notes
2003	The Human Stain 	Lisa Silk 	
2004	White Chicks 	Tiffany Wilson	
2004	The Naughty Lady 	Sara 	Short film
2005	A Coat of Snow 	Anna Marie 	
2006	Park 	Meredith 	
2006	10 Items or Less 	Lorraine 	
2006	And Then It Breaks	Girlfriend 	
2007	Speed Dating 	Amy 	Short film
2013	Shadow People 	Ellen 	
2016	The Waiting 	Elise 	
2016	Middle Man 	Grail 	
=== Television ===
Year 	Title 	Role 	Notes
2001 	ER 	Paula Gamble 	Episode: "I'll Be Home for Christmas"
2002–2003 	The Book Group 	Clare Pettengill 	12 episodes
2002 	For the People 	Jennifer Carter 	6 episodes
2003 	Judging Amy 	Candace Hurley 	Episode: "Marry, Marry Quite Contrary"
2003 	Six Feet Under 	Allison Williman 	Episode: "Twilight"
2003 	Friends 	Precious 	Episode: "The One After Joey and Rachel Kiss"
2004 	Desperate Housewives 	Brandi 	Episode: "Pretty Little Picture"
2004 	Less than Perfect 	Annie 	2 episodes
2005 	Charmed 	Denise 	Episode: "Ordinary Witches"
2005 	Invasion 	Katie Paxton 	2 episodes
2005 	Bones 	Tessa Jankow 	2 episodes
2005–2010 	How I Met Your Mother 	Natalie 	2 episodes
2006 	Psych 	Lucinda Barry 	Episode: "Pilot"
2006 	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Danielle McCaskin 	Episode: "Tru Love"
2006–2007 	Big Day 	Brittany 	3 episodes
2007 	Numbers 	Emmanueline Kirtland	Episode: "Nine Wives"
2007–2010, 2014	Mad Men 	Francine Hanson 	16 episodes
2007–2011 	Big Love 	Lura Grant 	18 episodes
2007–2012 	House 	Dr. Amber Volakis 	19 episodes
2009 	Castle 	Emma Carnes 	Episode: "The Fifth Bullet"
2010–2012 	Covert Affairs 	Danielle Brooks 	26 episodes
2012 	Touch 	Allegra 	Episode: "Zone of Exclusion"
2012 	Private Practice 	Lori 	Episode: "Drifting Back"
2012 	Criminal Minds 	Emma Kerrigan 	Episode: "The Good Earth"
2012 	The Mentalist 	Sloan Dietz 	Episode: "Cherry Picked"
2013 	Masters of Sex 	Rosalie 	Episode: "Fallout"
2013 	Santa Switch 	Linda Ryebeck 	Film
2014 	Those Who Kill 	Benedicte Schaeffer 	9 episodes
2014 	Grimm 	Vera Gates 	Episode: "Once We Were Gods"
2014 	Grey's Anatomy 	Elise Castor 	Episode: "Do You Know?"
2015 	NCIS: New Orleans 	Dawn Lin 	Episode: "The Walking Dead"
2015 	Rizzoli & Isles 	Cynthia Wallace 	Episode: "Family Matters"
2016 	The Magicians 	Pearl Sunderland 	4 episodes
2016 	The Mindy Project 	Eden 	Episode: "The Greatest Date in the World"
2016 	Longmire 	Melissa Parr 	Episode: "Chrysalis"
2017 	The Flash 	Tracy Brand 	4 episodes
2017 	You're the Worst 	Whitney 	2 episodes
2018 	Corporate 	Kate 	Regular
2018 	Bosch 	Pamela Duncan 	4 episodes
Category:American film actresses