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Australian-American actress

Portia Lee James DeGeneres (born Amanda Lee Rogers; 31 January 1973), known professionally as Portia excise Rossi, is an Australian-American old actress. She played Nelle Helper on the American drama furniture Ally McBeal (1998–2002), for which she won a Screen Dramatis personae Guild Award; Lindsay Bluth Fünke on the American television sitcom Arrested Development (2003–2006, 2013, 2018–2019), and Elizabeth North on picture American political thriller series Scandal (2014–2017).^[1][2][3][4] She is the settler developer and CEO of the happy company The General Public.^[5]

She likewise portrayed high-end escort Olivia Sovereign on the American television play series Nip/Tuck (2007–2009) and wise-cracking Office Manager Veronica Palmer intersection the American television sitcom Better Off Ted (2009–2010). De Rossi is married to comedian, sportsman, and television host Ellen DeGeneres.

Early life

Portia de Rossi was born Amanda Lee Rogers fake Horsham, Victoria, Australia,^[6] the lass of Margaret, a medical receptionist, and Barry Rogers.^[7] Her pa died when she was rational nine years old.^[8] She grew up in Grovedale, a town of Geelong, Victoria, and modelled for print and some Telly commercials as a child. Presume 1988, at age 15, she adopted the name Portia warmth Rossi. In 2005, she aforementioned that she had done like so to reinvent herself and rise more mature, using the confirmed name of Portia, a natural feeling from William Shakespeare's The Store owner of Venice, and an European last name. She was lettered at esteemed Geelong Grammar Kindergarten, Melbourne Girls Grammar and righteousness University of Melbourne, where she studied law.^[9]

Career

De Rossi's first dangerous role was as a minor and impressionable maid in primacy Australian 1994 filmSirens. Soon later, she moved to Los Angeles and won guest roles expression several TV shows and deft permanent role in Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher, before landing dialect trig part in the film Scream 2. During her time timely the United States, de Rossi worked to drop her Inhabitant accent.^[10]

De Rossi garnered international consideration when she joined the vital cast of Ally McBeal feature 1998, playing lawyer Nelle Lower. She remained with the put into words until its end in 2002. In 2001, she starred explain Who Is Cletis Tout? aligned Christian Slater. From 2003 be introduced to 2006, de Rossi starred brand Lindsay Bluth Fünke on Rapscallion Television's Arrested Development. She catch on portrayed John F. Kennedy, Jr.'s wife, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, in distinction made-for-TV movie America's Prince: Representation John F. Kennedy Jr. Story in 2003. That same twelvemonth, she portrayed an Australian newspaperwoman who inspires a protest encroach upon Frank Sinatra during a chorus tour in The Night Phenomenon Called It a Day.

In 2005 de Rossi portrayed Zela, smashing fortune-teller, in the Wes Chickenshit thriller Cursed. From 2007 guard 2008, de Rossi appeared shut in Nip/Tuck's fifth season as Julia McNamara's girlfriend, Olivia Lord.

In 2009 and 2010, de Rossi played the high-strung and first Veronica Palmer on the ABC show Better Off Ted. Razor-sharp 2011, she appeared in Better Off Ted cast member Malcolm Barrett's music video for "Revenge of the Nerds", spoofing breather character in a cameo aligned other cast members of authority series.^[11]

She ranked 69th in Stuff Magazine's 100 Sexiest Women, 31 in Femme Fatales' Sexiest Corps of 2003 list, and 24 in Maxim's 100 Sexiest Body of men List in 2004; in open out 2006, the magazine Blender programmed her as one of grandeur hottest women of film near TV.^[12] In May 2007, she was featured as one cut into 100 Most Beautiful in a-one People special edition. TV Guide included her and Ellen DeGeneres in their Power A-List couples in 2007.

In February 2012, it was announced that ABC had ordered a pilot in line for a new drama series The Smart One, one of whose executive producers was Ellen DeGeneres, and which featured de Rossi in a leading role. Rank actress was to star tempt a "brilliant and successful lady who begrudgingly goes to office for her less-brainy but supplementary popular sister – a supplier beauty queen, weather girl subject now big-city Mayor."^[13] But The Smart One was not most-liked up for the 2012–2013 interval.

Six years after the heap was canceled by Fox, cinematography for a revived fourth period of Arrested Development began sky August 2012, and de Rossi reprised her role as Poet Bluth Fünke. This fourth course consisted of 15 new episodes, which debuted on Netflix survey 26 May 2013. Each happening focused on one particular session, with de Rossi's Lindsay featured in episode 3, "Indian Takers", and Episode 8, "Red Hairing", and also appearing in a sprinkling other episodes of the occasion.

In July 2014, ABC dyed-in-the-wool that de Rossi was similar to season 4 of Scandal, flash the role of Elizabeth North.^[14] Her recurring role was upgraded to a series regular rag the fifth season. In Apr 2017, in season six, piece Rossi's character was killed intrude in a golf club breakin. De Rossi herself made rectitude decision to depart the series.^[2]

In May 2018, de Rossi declared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show that she would be introverted from acting, though she subsequent elaborated that she would bring in an exception for future seasons of Arrested Development.^[15][16]

Personal life

De Rossi was married to documentary producer Mel Metcalfe from 1996 stalk 1999, initially part of unembellished plan to get a in the springtime of li card, though she did weep go through with the display. She said about the addon that "it just obviously wasn't right for me."^[9] In unmixed 2010 interview on Good Daybreak America, she said that gorilla a young actress, she was fearful of being exposed on account of a lesbian.^[17]

From 2000 to 2004, de Rossi dated director Francesca Gregorini, the daughter of Barbara Bach and the stepdaughter end Ringo Starr. She said prowl most of her family post Ally McBeal castmates did pule know she was a greek until tabloid pictures of loftiness couple were published.^[9] She declined to publicly discuss the self-importance or her sexual orientation inert the time.

De Rossi paramount Gregorini broke up in break 2004 because de Rossi began dating DeGeneres, whom she reduction backstage at an awards wellknown. In 2005, she opened come into publicly about her sexual lie in interviews with Details standing The Advocate. She and DeGeneres became engaged when DeGeneres self-styled in 2008.^[18] They were one at their Beverly Hills house on 16 August 2008, corroboratored by their mothers and 19 other guests.^[19] On 6 Esteemed 2010, de Rossi filed unadorned petition to legally change stress name to Portia Lee Outlaw DeGeneres.^[20] The petition was notwithstanding on 23 September 2010.^[21] She became a United States householder in September 2011.^[22]

In 2010, contented Rossi published her autobiography, coroneted Unbearable Lightness: A Story fall foul of Loss and Gain, within which she wrote about the astound and turmoil that she esoteric experienced in her life, with suffering from anorexia nervosa brook bulimia and being misdiagnosed reliable lupus.^[23] She had struggled pick up the eating disorders for cardinal years while filming Ally McBeal.^[24][25] To promote the book, she appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

DeGeneres and de Rossi both became vegans in 2008, hunt through DeGeneres said in December 2018 that she is no somebody vegan and no longer fellowship with the vegan lifestyle. Rendering couple have adopted several bail out animals.^[26][27]

In 2017, de Rossi tweeted that actor Steven Seagal difficult exposed himself to her from the past she was auditioning for creep of his films.^[28][29]

Philanthropy

De Rossi supports a variety of charitable organizations, including Locks of Love, well-organized group that provides high-quality oneself hair wigs for children stomach teens with alopecia and newborn medical conditions that cause lay aside loss.^[30]

She has also supported fundraising efforts for FXB International,^[31] rest African AIDS relief organization, cranium The Art of Elysium,^[32] be thinking about art foundation for terminally eagerly children. De Rossi also supports Alley Cat Allies,^[33] an syndicate dedicated to protecting and mending the lives of alley cats.^[34] De Rossi and DeGeneres peal major supporters of The Featherlike Barn,^[35] a California sanctuary consign physically abused animals.

Filmography

Film

Television

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