Anne Dudek

Anne Louise Dudek (born March 22, 1975) is an American actress. She is known for portraying Tiffany Wilson in the 2004 film White Chicks, Danielle Brooks in the television series Covert Affairs, Dr. Amber Volakis on the series House, Lura Grant on the series Big Love, and Francine Hanson on the series Mad Men. She has also starred in the British television series The Book Group.

Early life

Dudek was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in Newton, Massachusetts. Her father was an architect. She graduated from Newton North High School and attended Northwestern University.

Career

From the mid-1990s (while at Northwestern University) through 2001, Dudek appeared in various theater productions and on Broadway. She made her Broadway debut in Wrong Mountain in 2000. She won the Connecticut Critics Circle Award for outstanding performance in The Glass Menagerie.

After success on Broadway, she made the jump to television. Her first starring role on television came when she was cast as the lead in the British comedy drama The Book Group. The show aired on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom to rave reviews. In her native United States, Dudek has since guest starred on other TV shows, including Desperate Housewives (as Karl Mayer's girlfriend in Season 1), How I Met Your Mother (as 'Natalie', Ted's Krav Maga-trained ex-girlfriend), Friends (as 'Precious', Mike Hannigan's girlfriend), ER (as a mother who accidentally shot her son), Charmed, Bones (as Seeley Booth's lawyer girlfriend), Numb3rs, and Six Feet Under. She also played Lucinda Barry in the pilot episode of Psych, and a teacher who has a sexual relationship with one of her students (based on the case of Debra Lafave) on Law & Order: Criminal Intent. In both Friends and How I Met Your Mother, her character was dumped on her birthday. Dudek appeared in several episodes of the HBO series Big Love as a child bride.

Dudek had a role on House (recurring from season 4 onwards) as Amber Volakis, one of 40 physicians under consideration by Dr. House for permanent positions on his team. Her character, nicknamed "Cutthroat Bitch" by House, continued to the end of season 4 but was killed off in the two-part season finale, "House's Head" and "Wilson's Heart". She would later reappear as a hallucination by House in the season 5 episode "Saviors", appearing in this form for the remainder of the season.

Dudek later appeared in Mad Men as next-door neighbor Francine Hanson, and on Big Love as one of antagonist Alby Grant's wives, both recurring roles. In 2010, she joined the cast of Covert Affairs. She played Anthony Hopkins' character's daughter in the 2003 film The Human Stain, and cruise line heir Tiffany Wilson in the 2004 comedy film White Chicks. In 2012, she played an ISS astronaut in one episode of the TV show Touch. She also reprised her role as Amber Volakis for the House series finale "Everybody Dies".

In 2015, Dudek played villainess Dawn Lin in an episode of NCIS: New Orleans, and also made a guest appearance in the fifth-season finale of Rizzoli & Isles. In 2017, she recurred on The Flash as Tracy Brand.

Personal life

Dudek married artist Matthew Dana Heller in 2008. They have a son, who was born in December 2008, and a daughter, who was born in February 2012. The couple divorced in 2016.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003		Lisa Silk
2004	White Chicks	Tiffany Wilson
		Sara	Short film
2005		Anna Marie
2006	Park	Meredith
	10 Items or Less	Lorraine
	And Then It Breaks	Girlfriend
2007	Speed Dating	Amy	Short film
2013	Shadow People	Ellen
2016	Middle Man	Grail
	The Good Neighbor	Elise Fleming
2017	House by the Lake	Karen
TBA	Reminisce	Yvette

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	ER	Paula Gamble	Episode: "I'll Be Home for Christmas"
2002–2003		Clare Pettengill	Main cast
2002	For the People	Jennifer Carter	Recurring role
2003	Judging Amy	Candace Hurley	Episode: "Marry, Marry Quite Contrary"
	Six Feet Under	Allison Williman	Episode: "Twilight"
	Friends	Precious	Episode: "The One After Joey and Rachel Kiss"
2004	Desperate Housewives	Brandi	Episode: "Pretty Little Picture"
	Less than Perfect	Annie	2 episodes
2005	Charmed	Denise	Episode: "Ordinary Witches"
	Invasion	Katie Paxton	2 episodes
	Bones	Tessa Jankow	2 episodes
2005–2010	How I Met Your Mother	Natalie	2 episodes
2006	Psych	Lucinda Barry	Episode: "Pilot"
	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Danielle McCaskin	Episode: "Tru Love"
2006–2007	Big Day	Brittany	3 episodes
2007	Numbers	Emmanueline Kirtland	Episode: "Nine Wives"
2007–2010, 2014	Mad Men	Francine Hanson	Recurring role (seasons 1–3); guest role, 2 episodes
2007–2011	Big Love	Lura Grant	Recurring role (seasons 2–5)
2007–2009, 2012	House	Dr. Amber Volakis	Recurring role (seasons 4–5), series finale: "Everybody Dies"
2009	Castle	Emma Carnes	Episode: "The Fifth Bullet"
2010–2012	Covert Affairs	Danielle Brooks	Main cast (seasons 1–2), recurring role (season 3)
2012	Touch	Allegra	Episode: "Zone of Exclusion"
	Private Practice	Lori	Episode: "Drifting Back"
	Criminal Minds	Emma Kerrigan	Episode: "The Good Earth"
		Sloan Dietz	Episode: "Cherry Picked"
2013	Masters of Sex	Rosalie	Episode: "Fallout"
	Santa Switch	Linda Ryebeck	TV movie
2014	Those Who Kill	Benedicte Schaeffer	Recurring role
	Grimm	Vera Gates	Episode: "Once We Were Gods"
	Grey's Anatomy	Elise Castor	Episode: "Do You Know?"
2015	NCIS: New Orleans	Dawn Lin	Episode: "The Walking Dead"
	Rizzoli & Isles	Cynthia Wallace	Episode: "Family Matters"
2016–2017		Pearl Sunderland	Recurring role (seasons 1–2)
2016		Eden	Episode: "The Greatest Date in the World"
	Aquarius		Episode: "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey"
	Longmire	Melissa Parr	Episode: "Chrysalis"
2017		Tracy Brand	4 episodes
	You're the Worst	Whitney	3 episodes
2018–2020	Corporate	Kate Glass	Main cast
2018	Bosch	Pamela Duncan	4 episodes
2019		Hannah Foreman	2 episodes
2023		Olivia	Episode: "Quiet and Loud"
2024	Manhunt	Ellen Stanton	Miniseries, 2 episodes

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