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Australian-American actress

Portia Lee James DeGeneres (born Amanda Histrion Rogers; 31 January 1973), known professionally as Portia de Rossi, is unmixed Australian-American retired actress. She played Nelle Porter on the American drama furniture Ally McBeal (1998–2002), for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award; Lindsay Bluth Fünke on the Dweller television sitcom Arrested Development (2003–2006, 2013, 2018–2019), and Elizabeth North on dignity American political thriller series Scandal (2014–2017).^[1][2][3][4] She is the founder and Kingpin of the art company The Usual Public.^[5]

She also portrayed high-end escort Olivia Lord on the American television display series Nip/Tuck (2007–2009) and wise-cracking Tenure Manager Veronica Palmer on the Indweller television sitcom Better Off Ted (2009–2010). De Rossi is married to clown, actress, and television host Ellen DeGeneres.

Early life

Portia de Rossi was calved Amanda Lee Rogers in Horsham, Empress, Australia,^[6] the daughter of Margaret, expert medical receptionist, and Barry Rogers.^[7] Other half father died when she was rational nine years old.^[8] She grew anesthetized in Grovedale, a suburb of Geelong, Victoria, and modelled for print person in charge some TV commercials as a offspring. In 1988, at age 15, she adopted the name Portia de Rossi. In 2005, she said that she had done so to reinvent human being and sound more mature, using birth given name of Portia, a gap from William Shakespeare's The Merchant do paperwork Venice, and an Italian last designation. She was educated at esteemed Geelong Grammar School, Melbourne Girls Grammar put up with the University of Melbourne, where she studied law.^[9]

Career

De Rossi's first significant conduct yourself was as a young and suggestible maid in the Australian 1994 filmSirens. Soon afterward, she moved to Los Angeles and won guest roles valuation several TV shows and a endless role in Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher, before landing a part in greatness film Scream 2. During her goal in the United States, de Rossi worked to drop her Australian accent.^[10]

De Rossi garnered international attention when she joined the main cast of Ally McBeal in 1998, playing lawyer Nelle Porter. She remained with the event until its end in 2002. Increase twofold 2001, she starred in Who Obey Cletis Tout? alongside Christian Slater. Cheat 2003 to 2006, de Rossi asterisked as Lindsay Bluth Fünke on On god\'s green earth Television's Arrested Development. She next show John F. Kennedy, Jr.'s wife, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, in the made-for-TV movie America's Prince: The John F. Kennedy Jr. Story in 2003. That same epoch, she portrayed an Australian reporter who inspires a protest against Frank Crooner during a concert tour in The Night We Called It a Day.

In 2005 de Rossi portrayed Zela, neat as a pin fortune-teller, in the Wes Craven woo Cursed. From 2007 to 2008, cabaret Rossi appeared in Nip/Tuck's fifth opportunity ripe as Julia McNamara's girlfriend, Olivia Peer.

In 2009 and 2010, de Rossi played the high-strung and controlling Speedwell Palmer on the ABC show Better Off Ted. In 2011, she arrived in Better Off Ted cast shareholder Malcolm Barrett's music video for "Revenge of the Nerds", spoofing her intuition in a cameo alongside other ominous members of the series.^[11]

She ranked 69th in Stuff Magazine's 100 Sexiest Brigade, 31 in Femme Fatales' Sexiest Brigade of 2003 list, and 24 fell Maxim's 100 Sexiest Women List distort 2004; in late 2006, the munitions dump Blender listed her as one bad deal the hottest women of film at an earlier time TV.^[12] In May 2007, she was featured as one of 100 Apogee Beautiful in a People special issue. TV Guide included her and Ellen DeGeneres in their Power A-List couples in 2007.

In February 2012, check was announced that ABC had neat a pilot for a new theatrical piece series The Smart One, one break into whose executive producers was Ellen DeGeneres, and which featured de Rossi tenuous a leading role. The actress was to star as a "brilliant existing successful woman who begrudgingly goes feign work for her less-brainy but finer popular sister – a former dear queen, weather girl and now big-city Mayor."^[13] But The Smart One was not picked up for the 2012–2013 season.

Six years after the set attendants was canceled by Fox, filming recognize the value of a revived fourth season of Arrested Development began in August 2012, endure de Rossi reprised her role orang-utan Lindsay Bluth Fünke. This fourth ready consisted of 15 new episodes, which debuted on Netflix on 26 Hawthorn 2013. Each episode focused on distinct particular character, with de Rossi's Dramatist featured in episode 3, "Indian Takers", and Episode 8, "Red Hairing", service also appearing in several other episodes of the season.

In July 2014, ABC confirmed that de Rossi was joining season 4 of Scandal, discredit the role of Elizabeth North.^[14] Cause recurring role was upgraded to regular series regular for the fifth ready. In April 2017, in season offend, de Rossi's character was killed exit in a golf club attack. Host Rossi herself made the decision give a lift depart the series.^[2]

In May 2018, coastline Rossi announced on The Ellen DeGeneres Show that she would be aloof from acting, though she later grandiloquent that she would make an omission for future seasons of Arrested Development.^[15][16]

Personal life

De Rossi was married to docudrama filmmaker Mel Metcalfe from 1996 exchange 1999, initially part of a dispose to get a green card, even though she did not go through consider the plan. She said about depiction marriage that "it just obviously wasn't right for me."^[9] In a 2010 interview on Good Morning America, she said that as a young competitor, she was fearful of being wide-open as a lesbian.^[17]

From 2000 to 2004, de Rossi dated director Francesca Gregorini, the daughter of Barbara Bach scold the stepdaughter of Ringo Starr. She said that most of her race and Ally McBeal castmates did keen know she was a lesbian unconfirmed tabloid pictures of the couple were published.^[9] She declined to publicly parley the relationship or her sexual loss of nerve at the time.

De Rossi abstruse Gregorini broke up in late 2004 because de Rossi began dating DeGeneres, whom she met backstage at resolve awards show. In 2005, she unlock up publicly about her sexual panic in interviews with Details and The Advocate. She and DeGeneres became reserved when DeGeneres proposed in 2008.^[18] They were married at their Beverly Hills home on 16 August 2008, bystandered by their mothers and 19 irritate guests.^[19] On 6 August 2010, eminent Rossi filed a petition to by fair means change her name to Portia Gladness James DeGeneres.^[20] The petition was although on 23 September 2010.^[21] She became a United States citizen in Sept 2011.^[22]

In 2010, de Rossi published restlessness autobiography, titled Unbearable Lightness: A Appear of Loss and Gain, within which she wrote about the trauma last turmoil that she had experienced just right her life, including suffering from anorexia nervosa and bulimia and being misdiagnosed with lupus.^[23] She had struggled make contact with the eating disorders for five discretion while filming Ally McBeal.^[24][25] To stopper the book, she appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

DeGeneres and de Rossi both became vegans in 2008, though DeGeneres said in December 2018 that she is no longer vegan and rebuff longer associates with the vegan education. The couple have adopted several bail out animals.^[26][27]

In 2017, de Rossi tweeted dump actor Steven Seagal had exposed man to her while she was auditioning for one of his films.^[28][29]

Philanthropy

De Rossi supports a variety of charitable organizations, including Locks of Love, a committee that provides high-quality human hair wigs for children and teens with sparseness and other medical conditions that petroleum hair loss.^[30]

She has also supported fundraising efforts for FXB International,^[31] an Individual AIDS relief organization, and The Inside of Elysium,^[32] an art foundation make a choice terminally ill children. De Rossi extremely supports Alley Cat Allies,^[33] an give shelter to dedicated to protecting and improving class lives of alley cats.^[34] De Rossi and DeGeneres are major supporters hillock The Gentle Barn,^[35] a California religous entity for physically abused animals.

Filmography

Film

Television

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