Anne Dudek

Anne Louise Dudek was born in America. She is famous for portraying Tiffany Wilson on the 2004 comedy White Chicks Danielle Brooks as Dr. Amber Volakis from Fox House, as Lura Grant on HBO's Big Love series and Francine Hanson in AMC's Mad Men. Anne Dudek, an American actor, is known best for her performance as Tiffany Wilson in 2004's comedy film White Chicks. Her television appearances include the role of Dr. Amber Volakis, in the Fox's House sitcom, Danielle Brookson, in USA Network drama Covert Affairs; and Lura Gran, in the HBO drama 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. Following the Broadway production, she travelled on a trip to New York City and won an Joseph E.Calloway Award. American Theater Magazine named her among the top ten emerging actors worth watching. Dudek eventually landed parts on TV and the large screen. Matthew Heller was the husband of the renowned actor between 2008-2016. Dudek was born in Boston Massachusetts on March 22 1975, but grew up in Newton. Her early years were spent in Newton. Dudek studied at Northwestern University and appeared in several theater productions. Dudek's Broadway debut was in Wrong Mountain on Broadway in 2000. In the following year, she received the Connecticut Critics Circle Award in appreciation of her performance in The Glass Menagerie. The Book Group in Britain was her first television appearance. The actress has appeared as a guest in a variety of other TV shows such as Desperate Housewives, Desperate I Met Your Mother and Friends Charmed Bones. She also played Lucinda in the pilot episode of Psych. In the following episode, she was a high school teacher with an affair with one of her students in Law & Order Criminal Intent. Dudek was offered her first regular role in House in the role of Amber Volakis. Her character was among the forty physicians who Dr. Gregory House considered for permanent roles on his team. The character Amber Volakis kept appearing throughout the entire series until it was finally killed off at the finale in House's Heart. In episode 5 of the season Saviors, House would have her reappear later as a hallucination. This was how she appeared for the remainder the of the Season. Dudek later appeared in Mad Men as next-door neighbor Francine Hanson, and also on Big Love as one of Alby Grant's antagonistic wives, both of them recurring characters. In the year 2010, Dudek became part of the cast on Covert Affairs portraying Danielle Brooks as the daughter of the central character. Dudek also appeared in various films, playing Tiffany Wilson the cruise line hero Tiffany Wilson's in the 2004's comedy White Chicks.