Anne Dudek

Anne Louise Dudek (born August 25 on the 25th of August, 1970) is an American actor. She has portrayed Tiffany Wilson in 2004's White Chicks, Danielle Brooks on USA Network TV series Covert Affairs as well as the character Dr. Amber Volakis for Fox House as well as House House. Lura Grant can be seen featured on HBO Big Love. Francine Hanson appears in AMC Mad Men. Anne Dudek was an American actress best known for her role as Tiffany Wilson from the 2004 comedy White Chicks. She has also been known for her television appearances, including the role of Dr. Amber Volakis on Fox's House, Danielle Brookson on USA Network's Covert Affairs, and Lura Grant in the HBO series Big Love. Born and raised in Massachusetts Dudek attended Northwestern University where she got her first role as an actor in the theatrical show The Iphigenia Cycle. The production was staged in New York City, the show was withdrawn off Broadway, and Dudek received the Joseph E. calloway award as well as American Theater Magazine profiled her as an emerging actor to watch. Dudek was eventually offered roles on television and the big screen. The talented actress, and mother of two on screen was engaged from 2008 until 2016, to Matthew Heller. Dudek was born in Boston Massachusetts on March 22 1975. She was raised in Newton. At the beginning of her career, she attended Northwestern University where she performed in a variety of theater productions. Dudek also made her Broadway debut in Wrong Mountain (2000). In 2000, her performance in the role of The Glass Menagerie won her the Connecticut Critics Circle Award. The Book Group was the first British drama-comedy in which she appeared. She has since guest-starred on several other TV shows including Desperate Housewives How I Met Your Mother Friends ER Charmed Bones Numb3rs as well as Six Feet Under. She also portrayed Lucinda Barry on the pilot episode of Psych and later a schoolteacher who is involved in a sexual affair between one of her student on Law & Order Criminal Intent. Dudek got her first role in House in its fourth year as Amber Volakis. Amber is among the Dr. Gregory House's forty of candidates to be an indefinite member of House's team. The character Amber Volakis continued to be featured throughout the show, but was finally killed off at the conclusion of House's Heart. Then, she returned in the episode Saviors of Season 5, as the hallucination of House. Dudek continued to appear as this for the rest of the season. Dudek would later appear in Mad Men playing the antagonistic neighbour of Alby grant, Francine Hanon. Dudek was on Covert Affairs, portraying Danielle Brooks as her sister in the role of the her character. She has also appeared in films as the character of cruise-line heir Tiffany Wilson in the 2004 comedy White Chicks and also played Anthony Hopkins's daughter in The Human Stain.