Lisa Kudrow:: From a Career in Medicine to Comedy, and Back to Medicine

Lisa Kudrow with her husband, Michael Stern

Lisa Kudrow on Conan in February 2011
Lisa Kudrow was born in Encino California July 30, 1963.  Her mother was a travel agent and dad, a doctor who focused on helping people who had headaches.  Lisa graduated from the prestigious, Vassar college with a degree in Biology.  He plans were to work with her father for her career.  She did work for him for 8 years until her brother's best friend talked her into going into comedy.  That friend was Jon Lovitz.  She joined the Groundlings in LA and also had worked with Conan on a short lived comedy troupe called, Unexpected Company.  In 1994, Kudrow got the part as Phoebe on the NBC TV show, Friends.  The show lasted for ten years, until 2004.  She was the first of the Friends cast to get married.  She ended up marrying a French man naamed, Michael Stern who is an advertising executive.  Lisa Kudrow is the producer of the show on TV about your heritary and is currently working on the Internet called, Web Therapy.  She is going back to her roots with the interest in medicine.