Lisa Kudrow

Some Lesser Known Facts About Lisa Kudrow

• Lisa Kudrow received two Star Guild Award and one Emmy Award (1998) for her role in FRIENDS.

• She is starring in the show Web Therapy which is in its fourth season. In 2012, she was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class, Short-Format, Live-Action Entertainment Program.

• She is one of the executive producers for the show “Who do you think you are?”. Lisa got nominated for an Emmy, in the category Outstanding Reality Program in 2012.

• She has been nominated ten times for Emmy Awards and twelve times for Star Guild Award and once for a Golden Globe Award.

• Lisa  had a rhinoplasty surgery done to reduce the size of her news.

• Working on the same path as her father’s, she worked with her father for eight years while trying to get a break in acting. She also earned herself a research credit for her findings about cluster headaches likelihood in the left handed people.

• She wrote, produced and acted in the show The Comeback in 2005. This show’s second season was aired after nine years after being reviewed by HBO. She received two Emmy Awards nomination for the show.

• She has made several guest appearances in TV shows, like in Cougar Town, BoJack Horseman, Angie Tribeca, and Scandal.

• Lisa was actually pregnant for real when in the show FRIENDS, she was pregnant with triplets as a surrogate mother for her brother.

• She has her name written in the Guinesse Book of World Records for being one of the highest-paid actresses at the rate of “$1 million per episode”. She shares this record with Jenifer Aniston and Courtney Cox.

• Kudrow has Toy Poodle named Wolly. She likes cats too but everyone in her family is allergic to them.

• In an interview to US Weekly she said “If I’m not smiling, I look like I’m miserable.”

• US Weekly reported, “I don’t remember specific episodes of Friends. If I watch one, I’m thrilled because it’s a surprise!”

• For her show “Who do you think you are?”, when she tried to find her own family tree, she found out that she has relatives in Poland.

• The FRIENDS episode, “The One With the Halloween Party ” was the first episode after 9/11 and through out the week, people would just pull up to her on the roads and would give her a sad look and a quiet ‘thank you’ for making them laugh.”

• If there was a re-union of FRIENDS, Lisa would like do a season rather than a movie or one-off thing.

• All the scenes of the movie Wonderland took three days one Lisa’s part to record them.

• She was the oldest than all the members of the FRIENDS’ cast.

• The only regular female that appeared on the Transformers Comedy Troupe was Lisa Kudrow.

• She appeared in two NBC produced pilots Just Temporary (Played Nicole, 1989) and Close Encounters (a Valley Girl 1990)

• Lisa’s work in films has been appreciated too. She appeared in Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, The Opposite of Sex, Analyze This and its sequel Analyze That, Dr. Dolittle 2, Wonderland, Happy Endings, P.S. I Love You, Bandslam, Hotel for Dogs, Easy A, and Neighbors.

• She lent her voice of the grizzly bear “Ava” in the live-action movie Dr. Dolittle 2 and in Ghost of Christmas Past in the American Dad! Christmas special “The Best Christmas Story Never Told”.

• The American journalist who died in Pakistan went to the same high school grade with Lisa Kudrow.