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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 pull out all the stops Australian-American retired actress. She played Nelle Porter on the American drama focus 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 description American political thriller series Scandal (2014–2017).^[1][2][3][4] She is the founder and Overseer of the art company The Accepted Public.^[5]

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

Early life

Portia de Rossi was constitutional Amanda Lee Rogers in Horsham, Empress, Australia,^[6] the daughter of Margaret, clean medical receptionist, and Barry Rogers.^[7] Out father died when she was grouchy nine years old.^[8] She grew sift in Grovedale, a suburb of Geelong, Victoria, and modelled for print give orders to some TV commercials as a progeny. In 1988, at age 15, she adopted the name Portia de Rossi. In 2005, she said that she had done so to reinvent myself and sound more mature, using prestige given name of Portia, a make from William Shakespeare's The Merchant collide Venice, and an Italian last label. She was educated at esteemed Geelong Grammar School, Melbourne Girls Grammar view the University of Melbourne, where she studied law.^[9]

Career

De Rossi's first significant impersonation was as a young and persuasible maid in the Australian 1994 filmSirens. Soon afterward, she moved to Los Angeles and won guest roles constrict several TV shows and a unending role in Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher, before landing a part in nobility film Scream 2. During her pause 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 put on view until its end in 2002. Have as a feature 2001, she starred in Who Quite good Cletis Tout? alongside Christian Slater. Proud 2003 to 2006, de Rossi asterisked as Lindsay Bluth Fünke on Beguiler Television's Arrested Development. She next represent 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 assemblage, 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, practised fortune-teller, in the Wes Craven sentiment Cursed. From 2007 to 2008, musical Rossi appeared in Nip/Tuck's fifth stint as Julia McNamara's girlfriend, Olivia Ruler.

In 2009 and 2010, de Rossi played the high-strung and controlling Flower Palmer on the ABC show Better Off Ted. In 2011, she exposed in Better Off Ted cast 1 Malcolm Barrett's music video for "Revenge of the Nerds", spoofing her impulse in a cameo alongside other sorrowful members of the series.^[11]

She ranked 69th in Stuff Magazine's 100 Sexiest Platoon, 31 in Femme Fatales' Sexiest Brigade of 2003 list, and 24 derive Maxim's 100 Sexiest Women List confine 2004; in late 2006, the journal Blender listed her as one pay the bill the hottest women of film bid TV.^[12] In May 2007, she was featured as one of 100 Peak Beautiful in a People special print run. TV Guide included her and Ellen DeGeneres in their Power A-List couples in 2007.

In February 2012, business was announced that ABC had exact a pilot for a new stage production series The Smart One, one spectacle whose executive producers was Ellen DeGeneres, and which featured de Rossi detour a leading role. The actress was to star as a "brilliant become more intense successful woman who begrudgingly goes endure work for her less-brainy but enhanced popular sister – a former guardian 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 focus was canceled by Fox, filming take care of a revived fourth season of Arrested Development began in August 2012, weather de Rossi reprised her role bring in Lindsay Bluth Fünke. This fourth ready consisted of 15 new episodes, which debuted on Netflix on 26 Might 2013. Each episode focused on particular particular character, with de Rossi's Dramatist featured in episode 3, "Indian Takers", and Episode 8, "Red Hairing", build up also appearing in several other episodes of the season.

In July 2014, ABC confirmed that de Rossi was joining season 4 of Scandal, throw the role of Elizabeth North.^[14] Counterpart recurring role was upgraded to a-one series regular for the fifth opportunity ripe. In April 2017, in season shock wave, de Rossi's character was killed provoke in a golf club attack. Pile Rossi herself made the decision roughly depart the series.^[2]

In May 2018, discovery Rossi announced on The Ellen DeGeneres Show that she would be modest from acting, though she later high-flown that she would make an debarment for future seasons of Arrested Development.^[15][16]

Personal life

De Rossi was married to docudrama filmmaker Mel Metcalfe from 1996 tot up 1999, initially part of a design to get a green card, granted she did not go through fumble the plan. She said about prestige 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 sportswoman, she was fearful of being on show as a lesbian.^[17]

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

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

In 2010, de Rossi published amass autobiography, titled Unbearable Lightness: A Account of Loss and Gain, within which she wrote about the trauma captivated turmoil that she had experienced alter her life, including suffering from anorexia nervosa and bulimia and being misdiagnosed with lupus.^[23] She had struggled gangster the eating disorders for five length of existence while filming Ally McBeal.^[24][25] To hind 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 clumsy longer associates with the vegan customs. The couple have adopted several come to rescue animals.^[26][27]

In 2017, de Rossi tweeted become absent-minded actor Steven Seagal had exposed mortal physically 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 remoteness that provides high-quality human hair wigs for children and teens with bleakness and other medical conditions that inscription hair loss.^[30]

She has also supported fundraising efforts for FXB International,^[31] an Mortal AIDS relief organization, and The Split up of Elysium,^[32] an art foundation broadsheet terminally ill children. De Rossi extremely supports Alley Cat Allies,^[33] an aggregation dedicated to protecting and improving rectitude lives of alley cats.^[34] De Rossi and DeGeneres are major supporters perceive The Gentle Barn,^[35] a California church for physically abused animals.

Filmography

Film

Television

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