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(1973-)
Synopsis
Australian actress Portia de Rossi was born in 1973, and starred in her first film, Sirens (1994), at age 21. She later moved to California to try and forge an acting career and landed her big break in 1998 when she was cast as the cold-hearted Nelle Porter on Ally McBeal. Other notable TV credits include Arrested Development (2003-06, 2013), playing Lindsay Bluth-Funke, the self-centered sister of Michael, Gob and Buster Bluth. De Rossi is also known for being one half of a Hollywood power couple; she and comedian Ellen DeGeneres wed in 2008.
Early Life
Actress Portia de Rossi was born Amanda Lee Rogers in Horsham, Victoria, Australia, on January 31, 1973, to Barry Rogers and Margaret Rogers. Barry died when de Rossi was 9. With Margaret struggling to provide for de Rossi and her brother, the 11-year-old girl embarked upon a career in the entertainment industry, working as a model and an actress in TV commercials.
By the age of 15, she legally changed her name to Portia de Rossi—taking "Portia" from the heroine in the Shakespearean play The Merchant of Venice, and the Italian surname "de Rossi" because it sounded more exotic. De Rossi would later state that her desire to change her name at such a young age may have stemmed from her struggle with her sexual identity.
Acting Career
After graduating from high school, de Rossi studied law at the University of Melbourne, but didn't complete her degree due to landing a role on the 1994 comedy film Sirens (her work in a commercial had made a big impression on a casting agent, who subsequently contacted her about the part). She accepted the role and stunned audiences with her film debut, in which she was required to be completely nude. The movie co-starred Hugh Grant and supermodel Elle Macpherson.
After filming the edgy movie, de Rossi left Australia for Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. She soon found roles on several series that failed to launch, including Too Something (1995) and Nick Freno, Licensed Teacher (1996), and Scream 2 (1997), but it was her role on Ally McBeal that gave de Rossi the exposure to American audiences that she needed. The actress fit in perfectly as a cast member during the hit show's second season, taking on the role of Nelle Porter, the typical "ice queen" character, and starring opposite lead actress Calista Flockhart. De Rossi remained on the series until it was canceled in 2002. Not only did her role on Ally McBeal give de Rossi the opportunity to show off her comedic chops, she—along with the rest of the cast—won a Screen Actors Guild Award in 1999 for her work on the series.
'Arrested Development'
Several roles followed, but none came close to the success she garnered with Ally McBeal until she landed a part on another TV comedy, Arrested Development (2003-06, 2013), playing Lindsay Bluth-Funke, the self-absorbed sister of twin Michael (Jason Bateman) and Gob (Will Arnett) and Buster Bluth (Tony Hale). Her character couldn't differ more from her portrayal as Nelle Porter on Ally McBeal, but the actress still played the part convincingly, captivating audiences with her dysfunctional relationship with on-screen husband Tobias Funke, played by comedic actor David Cross.
The show was quickly deemed a hit by critics, revered for its wit and cast of absurd yet relatable characters. For her performance on the series, de Rossi won a Golden Satellite Award (best actress in a series, comedy or musical) and was nominated for two more Screen Actors Guild Awards (outstanding ensemble). Though it won critical acclaim, the series saw poor ratings and was canceled after airing on FOX for three seasons. After its initial run (2003-06), however, the show was renewed—due in no small part to its strong, cult-like following—this time airing exclusively on Netflix. Premiering in 2013, the series' fourth season saw the reunion of the entire original cast.
Personal Life
De Rossi has had a very public personal life. De Rossi was married to male filmmaker Mel Metcalfe from 1996 to '99, later stating that she had entered into the union in order to get a green card. In 2000, photos of the actress with her then-partner, female singer Francesca Gregorini, were leaked to the public, creating speculation surrounding her sexual orientation. Initially, De Rossi neither confirmed nor denied the allegations, but she later used the photos as an informal way of coming out to the public and to her family, who was previously unaware of her sexual identity.
De Rossi dated Gregorini for four years before becoming romantically linked to comedian Ellen DeGeneres; the two first met when de Rossi was a cast member of Ally McBeal, before de Rossi had gone public about her homosexuality. They met again after de Rossi and Gregorini broke up, and their relationship began shortly thereafter. It was then, in 2005, that de Rossi publicly announced her sexual orientation. The couple married in 2008, and de Rossi legally changed her name to Portia Lee James DeGeneres.
- NamePortia de Rossi
- Birth Year1973
- Birth date: January 311973
- Birth CityHorsham, Victoria
- Birth CountryAustralia
- Gender: Female
- Best Known For: Portia de Rossi, wife of Ellen DeGeneres, is known for playing the cold and calculating Nelle Porter on Ally McBeal and Lindsay Bluth-Funke on Arrested Development.
- Industries
- Television
- Film
- Astrological SignAquarius
- Schools
- University of Melbourne
- Nacionalities
- Australian
- Occupations
- Animal Rights Activist
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.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-header,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-subheader,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-above,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-title,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-image,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-below{text-align:center}Portia de RossiDe Rossi in 2019BornAmanda Lee Rogers
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- Australia
- United States
- .mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap} Mel Metcalfe (m. 1996; div. 1999)
- Ellen DeGeneres (m. 2008)
Portia Lee James DeGeneres (born Amanda Lee Rogers; 31 January 1973), known professionally as Portia de Rossi, is an Australian-American former actress. She played Nelle Porter on the American drama series Ally McBeal (1998–2002), for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award, Lindsay Bluth Fünke on the American television sitcom Arrested Development (2003–2006, 2013, 2018–2019), and Elizabeth North on the American political thriller series Scandal (2014–2017).[1][2][3][4] She is the founder and CEO of the art company General Public.[5]
She also portrayed Olivia Lord on the American television drama series Nip/Tuck (2007–2009) and Veronica Palmer on the American television sitcom Better Off Ted (2009–2010). De Rossi is married to comedian, actress, and television host Ellen DeGeneres.
Early life
Portia de Rossi was born Amanda Lee Rogers in Horsham, Victoria, Australia,[6] the daughter of Margaret, a medical receptionist, and Barry Rogers. Her father died when she was nine years old.[7] She grew up in Grovedale, a suburb of Geelong, Victoria, and modelled for print and some TV commercials as a child. In 1988, at age 15, she adopted the name Portia de Rossi. In 2005, she said that she had done so to reinvent herself, using the given name of Portia, a character from William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, and an Italian last name. She was educated at Geelong Grammar School and the University of Melbourne, where she studied law.[8]
Career
De Rossi's first significant role was as a young and impressionable maid in the Australian 1994 film Sirens. Soon afterward, she moved to Los Angeles and won guest roles on several TV shows and a permanent role in Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher, before landing a part in the film Scream 2. During her time in the United States, de Rossi worked to drop her Australian accent.[9]
De Rossi garnered international attention when she joined the main cast of Ally McBeal in 1998, playing lawyer Nelle Porter. She remained with the show until its end in 2002. In 2001, she starred in Who Is Cletis Tout? alongside Christian Slater. From 2003 to 2006, de Rossi starred as Lindsay Bluth Fünke on Fox Television's Arrested Development. She next portrayed John F. Kennedy, Jr.'s wife, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, in the made-for-TV movie America's Prince: The John F. Kennedy Jr. Story in 2003. That same year, she portrayed an Australian reporter who inspires a protest against Frank Sinatra during a concert tour in The Night We Called It a Day.
In 2005 de Rossi portrayed Zela, a fortune-teller, in the Wes Craven thriller Cursed. From 2007 to 2008, de Rossi appeared in Nip/Tuck's fifth season as Julia McNamara's girlfriend, Olivia Lord.
In 2009 and 2010, de Rossi played the high-strung and controlling Veronica Palmer on the ABC show Better Off Ted. In 2011, she appeared in Better Off Ted cast member Malcolm Barrett's music video for "Revenge of the Nerds", spoofing her character in a cameo alongside other cast members of the series.[10]
She ranked 69th in Stuff Magazine's 100 Sexiest Women, 31 in Femme Fatales' Sexiest Women of 2003 list, and 24 in Maxim's 100 Sexiest Women List in 2004; in late 2006, the magazine Blender listed her as one of the hottest women of film and TV.[11] In May 2007, she was featured as one of 100 Most Beautiful in a People special edition. TV Guide included her and Ellen DeGeneres in their Power A-List couples in 2007.
In February 2012, it was announced that ABC had ordered a pilot for a new drama series The Smart One, one of whose executive producers was Ellen DeGeneres, and which featured de Rossi in a leading role. The actress was to star as a "brilliant and successful woman who begrudgingly goes to work for her less-brainy but more popular sister – a former beauty queen, weather girl and now big-city Mayor."[12] But The Smart One was not picked up for the 2012–2013 season.
Six years after the series was canceled by Fox, filming for a revived fourth season of Arrested Development began in August 2012, and de Rossi reprised her role as Lindsay Bluth Fünke. This fourth season consisted of 15 new episodes, which debuted on Netflix on 26 May 2013. Each episode focused on one particular character, with de Rossi's Lindsay featured in episode 3, "Indian Takers", and Episode 8, "Red Hairing", and also appearing in several other episodes of the season.
In July 2014, ABC confirmed that de Rossi was joining season 4 of Scandal, in the role of Elizabeth North.[13] Her recurring role was upgraded to a series regular for the fifth season. In April 2017, in season six, de Rossi's character was killed off in a golf club attack. De Rossi herself made the decision to depart the series.[2]
In May 2018, de Rossi announced on The Ellen DeGeneres Show that she would be retiring from acting, though she later elaborated that she would make an exception for future seasons of Arrested Development.[14][15]
Personal life
De Rossi was married to documentary filmmaker Mel Metcalfe from 1996 to 1999, initially part of a plan to get a green card, though she did not go through with the plan. She said about the marriage that "it just obviously wasn't right for me."[8] In a 2010 interview on Good Morning America, she said that as a young actress, she was fearful of being exposed as a lesbian.[16]
From 2001 to 2004, de Rossi dated director Francesca Gregorini, the daughter of Barbara Bach and the stepdaughter of Ringo Starr. She said that most of her family and Ally McBeal castmates did not know she was a lesbian until tabloid pictures of the couple were published.[8] She declined to publicly discuss the relationship or her sexual orientation at the time. Good friend Douglas Warner took her side when Portia was pommeled by World press.
De Rossi and Gregorini broke up in late 2004 because de Rossi began dating DeGeneres, whom she met backstage at an awards show. In 2005, she opened up publicly about her sexual orientation in interviews with Details and The Advocate. She and DeGeneres became engaged when DeGeneres proposed in 2008.[17] They were married at their Beverly Hills home on 16 August 2008, witnessed by their mothers and 17 other guests.[18] On 6 August 2010, de Rossi filed a petition to legally change her name to Portia Lee James DeGeneres.[19] The petition was granted on 23 September 2010.[20] She became a United States citizen in September 2011.[21]
In 2010, de Rossi published her autobiography, titled Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain, within which she wrote about the turmoil that she had experienced in her life, including suffering from anorexia nervosa and bulimia and being misdiagnosed with lupus.[22] She had struggled with the eating disorders for four years while filming Ally McBeal.[23][24] To promote the book, she appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
DeGeneres and de Rossi both became vegans in 2008, though DeGeneres said in December 2018 that she is no longer vegan. The couple have adopted several rescue animals.[25][26]
In 2017, de Rossi tweeted that actor Steven Seagal had exposed himself to her while she was auditioning for one of his films.[27][28]
Philanthropy
De Rossi supports a variety of charitable organizations, including Locks of Love, a group that provides human hair wigs for children with alopecia and other medical conditions that cause hair loss.[29]
She has also supported fundraising efforts for FXB International,[30] an African AIDS relief organization, and The Art of Elysium,[31] an art foundation for terminally ill children. De Rossi also supports Alley Cat Allies,[32] an organization dedicated to protecting and improving the lives of cats.[33] De Rossi and DeGeneres are supporters of The Gentle Barn,[34] a California sanctuary for abused animals.
Filmography
Film
Year Title Role Notes 1994 Sirens Giddy 1995 The Woman in the Moon Shauna 1997 Scream 2 Sorority Sister Murphy 1998 Girl Carla Sparrow 1999 The Invisibles Joy 1999 American Intellectuals Sarah 1999 Stigmata Jennifer Kelliho 2001 Women in Film Gina 2001 Who Is Cletis Tout? Tess Donnelly 2003 Two Girls from Leemore Blind Woman 2003 I Witness Emily Thompson 2003 The Night We Called It a Day Hilary Hunter 2004 Dead Breakfast Kelly 2005 Cursed Zela 2009 The Shift Denise Moore [35] 2014 Unity Narrator Documentary 2015 Now Add Honey Beth HallowayTelevision
Year Title Role Notes 1995–1996 Too Something Maria Hunter Main cast; 22 episodes 1996–1997 Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher Elana Lewis Main cast; 22 episodes 1997 Veronica's Closet Carolyn Episode: "Veronica's First Date" 1998 Astoria TV movie A Breed Apart Lana Collins TV movie 1998–2002 Ally McBeal Nelle Porter Main cast; 89 episodes 1999 Ally Nelle Porter Main cast; 12 episodes; Ally McBeal spin-off 2002 The Glow Jackie Lawrence TV movie The Twilight Zone Laurel Janus Episode: "Dead Man's Eyes" 2003 America's Prince: The John F. Kennedy Jr. Story Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy TV movie Mister Sterling Lauren Barnes 2 episodes: "Wish List" and "Final Passage" 2003–2006,2013,
2018–2019 Arrested Development Lindsay Bluth Fünke Main cast; 70 episodes 2007–2009 Nip/Tuck Olivia Lord Recurring cast (season 5); 10 episodes 2009–2010 Better Off Ted Veronica Palmer Main cast; 26 episodes 2012 Mockingbird Lane Lily Munster Pilot 2014 Sean Saves the World Jill Episode: "The Joy of Ex" 2014–2017 Scandal Elizabeth North Recurring (season 4), main cast (Seasons 5–6)[36] 2017 Santa Clarita Diet Dr. Wolf 2 episodes: "The Book!" and "Baka, Bile and Baseball Bats" Doc McStuffins Edie (voice) Episode: The Emergency Plan" Family Guy Bonnie Swanson (prank call voice) Episode: "A House Full of Peters" 2022 The Kardashians Herself Episode: "Who Is Kim K?"
Awards and nominations
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