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Diane Marie Kudrow (born July 30, 1963) is an Emmy Award- and
SAG-winning American actress, perhaps best known for her role as
Phoebe Buffay in the popular television sitcom Friends. Despite
the previous lack of success, this role led to her starring role
on Friends as Phoebe Buffay, a role for which she won the 1998
Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.
She played the character from 1994 until the show ended in 2004.
Kudrow received a salary of one million dollars per episode for
the last two seasons of Friends. According to the Guinness World
Book of Records (2005), Kudrow (along with her female co-stars)
became the highest paid TV actress of all time with her $1
million-per-episode paycheck for the tenth season of Friends. Her
film credits include comedic roles in Romy and Michele's High
School Reunion, Hanging Up, Marci X, Analyze This and its sequel
Analyze That. However, Kudrow has also starred in dramatic roles
including the biopic Wonderland about the late porn star John
Holmes. She has garnered critical acclaim in mostly dramatic roles
for writer-director Don Roos in the films The Opposite of Sex and
Happy Endings. After 'Friends', Kudrow portrayed Valerie Cherish,
the main character on the HBO original series The Comeback. Her
most recent work is in the movie adaptation of the bestselling
novel, PS,
I Love You 2008 alongside Hillary
Swank, in which she plays a supporting role as Denise ... more |
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