Anne Dudek

Anne Louise Dudek (born August 25 on the 25th of August, 1970) is an American actress. Her most well-known role is her role as Tiffany Wilson on the 2004 comedy White Chicks Danielle Brooks as Dr. Amber Volakis from Fox House. She also played Lura Grant in HBO's Big Love series and Francine Hanson in AMC's Mad Men. Her most recognizable role is Tiffany Wilson, in the film White Chicks. Her television appearances comprise Dr. Amber Volakis, in Fox's House sitcom; Danielle Brookson, in USA Network drama Covert Affairs; and Lura Gran on the HBO Drama Big Love. Dudek was raised and born within Massachusetts. She attended Northwestern University, where her first performance as an actress was in a theatrical production called The Iphigenia Cycle. The award was presented to her as The Joseph E. Caloway Award for her performance that stood out during this New York City production. American Theater Magazine also featured Dudek among the ten actors in the theatre who must be followed. Dudek was offered roles on television and also on the large screen. She is a talented actress and mother of two children on the screen, was a bride from 2008 to 2016, to Matthew Heller. Dudek, born March 22, 1975 in Boston Massachusetts but raised in Newton. She was an undergraduate at Northwestern University in her early days, and was in a variety of theatre productions as well as on Broadway performing in the show of the Wrong Mountain in 2000. Later, she won the Connecticut Critics Circle Award in appreciation of her performance in The Glass Menagerie. The Book Group: A British Comedy-Drama marked her first appearance on television. In the meantime, she has guest-starred in a variety of other TV shows including Desperate Housewives How I Met Your Mother Friends ER Charmed Bones, Numb3rs, and Six Feet Under. In the first episode of Psych Dudek played Lucinda and on Law & Order Criminal Intent she played a teacher with a relationship with a student. Dudek was first introduced to the role in House in the fourth season in the role of Amber Volakis. Amber is one of the Dr. Gregory House's 40 contenders for the position of an indefinite member of House's team. She continued to play her character for the entirety of the season. However, she died in the House's head and Wilson's heart episode, which was a two-part series finale. Later, she would return in the form of a hallucination created during the episode House in the episode of the fifth season Saviors later appearing as a hallucination for the remainder of the series. Dudek subsequently appeared in Big Love and Mad Men in various roles, including Alby Grant's antagonistic husbands, Francine Hanson. Dudek was cast in Covert Affairs as Danielle Brooks, the sister to the protagonist. Her other film roles include Tiffany Wilson (the cruise-line's heir) in White Chicks (2004) and Anthony Hopkins' daughter in The Human Stain.