August 4th, 2007
Fact Sheet
| Full Name: |
Lisa Edelstein |
| Birth Date: |
May 21, 1967 |
| Astrological Sign: |
Taurus |
| Birth Place: |
Boston, Massachusetts |
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| College: |
- Attended New York University, New York, NY
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| Awards: |
- 2005 Won Satellite Award Outstanding Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television for: "House M.D." (2004)
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| Fast Facts: |
- A noted Manhattan club goers as a college student, she was the subject of a 1986 New York Times Magazine profile written by Maureen Dowd.
- Wrote, composed and performed in Positive Me, a 1989 musical piece about AIDS produced by off-Broadway’s LaMama theater company. The play, which warned teens about the dangers of AIDS, was positively reviewed by the New York Times ("a buoyant and risky show"). Thomas Gibson was in the cast.
- Made her film debut as a makeup artist in Oliver Stone’s The Doors (1991).
- Voiced the role of Lex Luthor’s aide Mercy Graves in Superman: The Animated Series, as well as in the Justice League Unlimited cartoon series; also voiced Crystal Steele in the Blade Runner CD-ROM game.
- Does volunteer work for the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary.
- Lisa’s favorite House quote is, "Inamrinone can cause arrhythmia and thrombocytopenia".
- Lisa’s mom, dad, aunt and uncle have all been extras on House.
- Lisa is an avid practitioner of Ashtanga Yoga.
- Lisa Edelstein currently lives in Los Angeles in a century-old home with her cat and rescue dogs.
- If you look closely, you’ll notice that Lisa’s left eye is slightly higher than the right. This condition is called Hyperphoria.
- In the mid-1980s Lisa was well known as Party girl Lisa E, dubbed "New York’s reigning Queen of the night".
- Lisa enjoys writing, composing music and painting.
- Lisa’s father is a doctor, and the actress recalls "going to the emergency room for fun" as a child
- Lisa has 3 rescue dogs named Sandwich, Wolf E. and Bumper and one cat named Bug.
- Lisa will not eat meat or wear animal products.
- Lisa is left handed
- Lisa is 5′6” (167.6 cm)
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| Quotes: |
- (after going to bed with Rob Lowe on The West Wing) Being with Rob Lowe was very exciting because I was in love with him when I was a girl. And I must admit James Spader is pretty sexy, too.
- (asked if she’d be attracted to someone like House) Yeah, I like a smartypants. It’s sexy when a guy is that witty and bright, even at the cost of social skills. I have plenty of social skills of my own.
- The show is a medical drama with a twist, the lead [Laurie] is this brilliant, incredible doctor with this amazing talent, but really he has no interest in talking to people. Plus he’s addicted to painkillers, which just adds fuel to the fire. House is very CSI-like in that it dives into the human body and gives viewers a tour of the body from the inside — a look at the veins and the heart… It’s dark yet it’s funny. It’s very intelligently written, sort of like a medical West Wing.
- There are so many good roles for women out there, I don’t understand it when people say the role choices are fewer as you get older. I find the opposite to be true, there are less good roles out there for the hot 20-year-olds because the normal girl parts just aren’t interesting.
- I was one of those people who was literally famous for doing nothing…I was always a part of the club scene in New York and eventually was able to produce my own musical about AIDS (Positive Me) because of the audience and press I received as a club kid. Eventually I was called in to screen test for this MTV show because word was out I was this neat club kid turned playwright. I got the job and basically was humiliated on the air everyday. I’m an actor, not a hostess. It was horrifying. I had all this baby fat, so I was just huge on camera… I still can’t watch one frame of the show. Then I got all this hate mail because I couldn’t play the part right… Luckily the show got canceled after seven months. I was so relieved.
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