Anne Dudek

Anne Louise Dudek is an American actor from the United States. Her most well-known role is that of Tiffany Wilson in the 2004 film White Chicks Danielle Brooks in the USA Network television series Covert Affairs Dr. Amber Volakis on the Fox series House Lura Grant from the HBO series Big Love and Francine Hanson in the AMC show Mad Men. Anne Dudek, an American actress is best known for her character Tiffany Wilson in 2004's comedy film White Chicks. The television roles she has played comprise The Dr. Amber Volakis, in Fox's House sitcom, Danielle Brookson, in USA Network drama Covert Affairs; and Lura Gran in HBO the drama Big Love. Dudek was born in Massachusetts she attended Northwestern University and got her very first acting job on stage in The Iphigenia Cycle. The production went off-Broadway in New York City where she received the Joseph E. Calloway award for her stunning performance and was also profiled as one of the ten young theater actors to follow by American Theater Magazine. Dudek got roles on television and big-screen. Matthew Heller, the talented actress and mother-of-two behind the camera was her husband for a period of time from 2007 to 2016. Dudek was born in Boston Massachusetts on March 22 1975, but grew up in Newton. At the beginning of her career she was a student at Northwestern University where she performed in several theater productions. Her debut on the stage was also her Broadway debut on Wrong Mountain (2000). Later, she won the Connecticut Critics Circle Award in recognition of her role as The Glass Menagerie. The Book Group: A British Comedy-Drama was her first show on TV. She's appeared as a guest star on a variety of TV shows such as Desperate Women, How I Met Your Mother, Friends, ER, Charmed Bodies Numb3rs, or Six Feet Under. The pilot episode of Psych, she appeared as Lucinda as well as In Law & Order Criminal Intent she played a teacher with relations with a pupil. Dudek got her first role at House during its fourth season, playing the character Amber Volakis. Amber is one of Dr. Gregory House's forty contenders for a position as the permanent House team. She continued to play her character throughout the entire 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 in the fifth-season episode House in the fifth-season episode Saviors later appearing as a hallucination for the remainder in the entire season. Dudek was later seen in the role of Francine as the neighbor next door in Mad Men and as Alby's adversarial wife in Big Love. In the year 2010, Dudek became part of the cast on Covert Affairs portraying Danielle Brooks as the daughter of the central character. Her other film roles are Tiffany Wilson (the cruise-line's heir) in White Chicks (2004) and Anthony Hopkins' daughter in The Human Stain.