Lisa Cuddy

Dr. Lisa Cuddy (b. late 1967 or early 1968) is one of the two main antagonists (alongside Eric Foreman) of House MD. She was the Dean of Medicine and Chief Hospital Administrator of Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital from Season 1 to Season 7. She was the direct superior of both Dr. House and Dr. Wilson. She is a specialist in endocrinology, but when in charge, she had a very limited medical practice due to her administrative duties.
She was portrayed by , who also voiced Kya in The Legend of Korra.
==Biography==
===Early life===
Cuddy was born in 1968. Her mother, Arlene Cuddy, is still living, but her father is deceased. Her father was Jewish from birth, but her mother was a Catholic who converted to Judaism when Arlene married Cuddy's father. She has one sister, Julia Cuddy. She also comes from a long line of physicians - her great grandfather published a key medical text. We also know that she has also wanted to be a doctor ever since she was 12 years old. She was the editor of her high school yearbook. She often felt her mother treated her more harshly than her younger sister, but later came to believe that her mother only pushed her knowing that she was capable of great things. The only other salient fact about her early life is that she admitted to Wilson (who later told House) that she once slept with her father’s best friend.
===Present day===
In the Season 7 episode "Small Sacrifices" her age is established as 42, with her 43rd birthday approaching. She tells House that she lied to Human Resources about her age when she first applied for a vice president of administration job at age 29, because she thought she would be taken more seriously if she were in her early thirties.
In the Season 5 episode "The Social Contract", she claimed to be 38. However, House had been working for Cuddy for eight years prior to the beginning of Season 1, and House owed her 6 years of clinic duty in the show's pilot. Therefore, she has been House's boss for at least 13 years, indicating that she was 38 when the show started and is currently 45.
== Personality ==
Dr. Cuddy prides herself at being the strong, independent woman in charge. She is reasonable, but sticks to her guns in situations in which her opinion is called into question (which is quite often with House on the staff). She does display a good deal of outward emotion, especially when put on the spot or confronted with something she is passionate about. But she is generally able to see through her emotional state and make the best, most logical decision for the hospital or herself. House would never admit it, but she’s a great boss.
==Trivia==
*Cuddy appears to be infertile, seeing as her numerous attempts of invitrofertilization failed
**She does end up adopting a baby girl named Rachel, sadly after Rachel's teenage mother was diagnosed with a fatal illness; with the blessing of the grandparents.
*Cuddy moved away after House went to jail for crashing his car into her house; if he was that upset over her dumping him for having a dose of vicodin. 
**To be fair, House only relapsed out of his worrying over her life during a surgery to remove a tumor on her kidney.
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