Lisa Kudrow

Lisa Valerie Kudrow is an American actress, comedian, writer and producer. She gained worldwide recognition for her tenseason run as Phoebe Buffay on the television sitcom Friends, for which she received many accolades, including an Emmy Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Lisa Kudrow was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Nedra S. , a travel agent, and Dr. Lee N. Kudrow , a physician who specialized in the treatment of headaches. She has an older sister, Helene Marla , and an older brother, Santa Monica neurologist David B. Kudrow . Kudrow was raised in a middleclass Jewish family and had a Bat Mitzvah ceremony. Her ancestors emigrated from Belarus, Germany, Hungary and Poland. some of them lived in the village of Ilya, in the Minsk area. Her paternal greatgrandmother, Mera Mordejovich, was murdered in Ilya during the Holocaust. Her paternal grandmother, Grunya Farberman, immigrated to Brooklyn, where her father grew up.

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