Lisa Kudrow
could not be further from the character she plays on the hit
NBC sitcom Friends, ditzy New Age musician/masseuse/taxi driver,
Phoebe Buffay. For starters, the character she plays is in
her twenties, while Lisa was born July 30th, 1963, in Encino,
California. While Phoebe only discovered her biological parents
a couple of years ago, Lisa comes from a secure household,
where she was raised in Tarzana, California.
Lisa's father Lee Kudrow is
a renowned headache specialist, while her mother Nedra Kudrow
is a travel agent. Although Lisa was a hard worker and studied
intensely while in elementary school, she started to show
an interest in acting at an early age. She would lip sync
to the soundtrack form Fiddler on the Roof, pretending to
be one of the musical's characters. Lisa performed her Fiddler
routine in several classes, a teacher caught a glimpse of
her act and was fully impressed...
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