Anne Dudek

Anne Louise Dudek is an American actress. Her most well-known role is playing 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 on the AMC show Mad Men. The most well-known character played by Anne Dudek is Tiffany Wilson, in the 2004 film White Chicks. Her other roles include her television roles as Dr. Amber Volakis in Fox's sitcom House Danielle Brookson in USA Network's drama Covert Affairs and Lura Grant in HBO's drama Big Love. Dudek is an Massachusetts resident who went to Northwestern University. It was in Northwestern that she received her first role as an actor as Lura Grant on stage in The Iphigenia Cycle. After the Broadway show, she moved into New York City and won the Joseph E.Calloway Award. American Theater Magazine named her one of ten young actors worth watching. Dudek was offered roles on television and big-screen. The talented actress who has a daughter of two, was married from 2008 until 2016, to Matthew Heller. Dudek was originally birthed at Boston Massachusetts, on March 22, 1975. Her family was from Newton. Her early years were spent in Newton, where she studied at Northwestern University. She appeared in a variety of theater shows as well as made her Broadway debut with Wrong Mountain. Then, she was awarded the Connecticut Critics Circle Award in recognition of her role as The Glass Menagerie. The Book Group in Britain was her first appearance on television. She's been an actor on wide range of television shows, including Desperate Women, How I Met Your Mother, Friends, ER, Charmed Bodies Numb3rs and Six Feet Under. In the pilot for Psych she played Lucinda as well as on Law & Order Criminal Intent a female teacher who was in a relationship of homosexuality and a fellow student. Dudek then got a role in the role of Amber Volakis. She was one of 40 physicians that Dr. Gregory House was considering to hire permanently on his staff. It began during the Season 4 of the show. The House's Heart and Head two-part season finale, her character was eliminated. Later, she would reappear in the season 5 episode Saviors of Season 5, as the character who was House's hallucination. The character continued to be seen as this for the rest in the entire season. Dudek later appeared in Big Love and Mad Men in recurring roles as Alby Grant's antagonistic husbands, Francine Hanson. In 2010 Dudek was added to the cast of Covert Affairs portraying Danielle Brooks the sister of the central character. Dudek has appeared in other films as Tiffany Wilson the cruise line family member of Tiffany Wilson in the 2004 comedy White Chicks.