Portia de Rossi
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Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Luxuriantly tressed blonde Portia de Rossi combined her former interest in the law with her subsequent acting career and achieved TV fame when she joined the cast of the Fox TV hit Ally McBeal in 1998. Born Mandy Rogers in Melbourne, Australia, de Rossi acted in TV commercials as a teen and modeled, but entered college to become a lawyer. She changed professions, however, when she was cast as one of the titular beauties tempting the wife of stuffy Hugh Grant in John Duigan's comedy Sirens (1994). de Rossi relocated to Los Angeles and appeared on TV sitcoms Too Something (1995) and Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher (1996), as well as in the blockbuster horror sequel Scream 2 (1997) as one of the terrorized sorority sisters. After a starring role in the TV crime movie Perfect Assassins (1998), de Rossi joined Ally McBeal in its second season as icy legal hotshot Nelle. The series opened her up to a wider audience, and de Rossi would continue to act in films like The Invisibles and Cursed.After the 2002 demise of Ally McBeal, de Rossi wasted little time in attaching herself to another edgy and successful project. Another critically-acclaimed Fox show, the ensemble sitcom Arrested Development cast the actress as the self-righteous twin sister of Jason Bateman's Michael Bluth. During the cult hit show's three seasons, it earned such a rabid fanbase that it was only cancelled after a massive public outcry. And though de Rossi would spend the ensuing decade starring on other shows, like Nip/Tuck and Better Off Ted, the power of Arrested Development's fanbase would bring it back after a decade, as the entire cast announced in 2012 that they would reunite for a new season of the show, released directly on Netfix.De Rossi came out as a lesbian in 2005. She married beloved talk show host Ellen Degeneres in 2008.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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88% | Tab Hunter Confidential |
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— | 2015 |
No Score Yet | Qu hacemos con honey? |
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— | 2015 |
17% | Now Add Honey |
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— | 2015 |
No Score Yet | The Arrested Development Documentary Project |
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— | 2013 |
60% | Mockingbird Lane |
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— | 2012 |
No Score Yet | Ambition to Meaning: Finding Your Life's Purpose (The Shift) |
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— | 2009 |
50% | Dead and Breakfast |
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— | 2005 |
16% | Cursed |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | The Night We Called It A Day |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | All the Way |
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— | 2004 |
No Score Yet | I Witness |
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— | 2003 |
No Score Yet | America's Prince: The John F. Kennedy Jr. Story |
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— | 2003 |
No Score Yet | Night We Called It a Day |
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— | 2003 |
No Score Yet | All the Way: The Kidnapping of a Music Legend |
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— | 2003 |
No Score Yet | The Glow |
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— | 2002 |
23% | Who Is Cletis Tout? |
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$65.4k | 2002 |
No Score Yet | Mujeres de Película |
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— | 2001 |
22% | Stigmata |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | Girl |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | The Invisibles |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | Perfect Assassins |
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— | 1998 |
81% | Scream 2 |
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— | 1997 |
74% | Sirens |
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— | 1994 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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74% |
Arrested Development
2003-2019
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No Score Yet |
Family Guy
1999
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No Score Yet |
Hollywood Medium With Tyler Henry
2016-2019
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93% |
Scandal
2012-2018
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No Score Yet |
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
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No Score Yet |
Late Night With Seth Meyers
2014
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No Score Yet |
Jimmy Kimmel Live
2003
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No Score Yet |
Inside the Actors Studio
1994-2019
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No Score Yet |
Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
2009-2014
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No Score Yet |
The Conversation With Amanda de Cadenet
2012
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89% |
Better Off Ted
2009-2010
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75% |
Nip/Tuck
2003-2009
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No Score Yet |
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
1992-2014
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50% |
The Twilight Zone
2002-2003
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61% |
Ally McBeal
1997-2002
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No Score Yet |
Veronica's Closet
1997-2000
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46% |
New York Daze
1995-1996
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No Score Yet |
Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher
1998
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Quotes from Portia de Rossi's Characters
Sorority Sister Murphy: | Hey Sid, how are you holding up? |
Sidney Prescott: | I'm coping. |
Sorority Sister Murphy: | This is weird isn't it, to think this fuss is all because of you. I mean, not directly, but in some six degrees of Kevin Bacon-way. |
Sorority Sister Murphy: | HI...No, I really mean that...hi! |
Sorority Sister Murphy: | Hi. No, I really mean that, hi! |