Anne Dudek

Anne Louise Dudek is an American actress. She was famous for her role as 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 show Big Love and Francine Hanson in the AMC series Mad Men. Her most recognizable role is Tiffany Wilson, in the film White Chicks. Her other roles include TV roles, including the role of Dr. Amber Volakis from Fox's House; Danielle Brookson from the USA Network's Covert Affairs and Lura in HBO Drama Big Love. Dudek was raised and born within Massachusetts. She was a student at Northwestern University, where her first performance as an actress was in a stage production was The Iphigenia Cycle. The production went off-Broadway in New York City where she was awarded the Joseph E. Calloway award for her outstanding performance. She was featured as one of the top ten emerging actors in the theatre to be watched by American Theater Magazine. Dudek found roles on TV as well as in films. Matthew Heller was the husband of the talented actor from the year 2008 until 2016. Dudek was conceived in Boston Massachusetts in 1975 and born in Newton. Her early years were spent in Newton. Dudek studied at Northwestern University and appeared in a variety of theatre shows. The actress's Broadway debut was in Wrong Mountain on Broadway in 2000. Her performance as a character in The Glass Menagerie earned her the Connecticut Critics Circle Award. The Book Group was the first British drama-comedy she appeared in. The actress has appeared as a guest on a few other shows like Desperate Housewives, Desperate I Met Your Mother and Friends Charmed Bones. In the first episode, Lucinda was portrayed by her. In the following episode, the show Law & Order Criminal Intent she played a teacher who is involved in a sexual relationship with a young child. Dudek was then cast in a series of regular roles beginning in the fourth season as Amber Volakis. Dr. Gregory House is considering her for a permanent position in his medical team. The character of Amber Volakis kept appearing throughout the entire series until it was finally killed off at the end in House's Heart. Later, she would reappear in the episode Saviors from Season 5, as the character who was House's hallucination. The character continued to be seen as this for the rest of the series. Dudek was later seen as a character on Mad Men, as the neighbor next door Francine Hanson. She also played an antagonistic wife of Alby Grant on Big Love. Both roles were regular. Dudek made her Covert Affairs debut in 2010 as Danielle Brooks' sister. Her other film roles comprise Tiffany Wilson (the cruise-line's heir) in White Chicks (2004) and Anthony Hopkins' daughter in The Human Stain.