Portia

Biography
Portia de Rossi (born on January 31, 1973) is an Australian actress who is best known for her role as lawyer Nelle Porter on Ally McBeal and her role as lead character Lindsay Bluth Fünke on Arrested Development.She was born in Melbourne, Victoria and grew up in Grovedale, a suburb of Geelong.As a child she modeled for print and TV commercials. She took the name Portia de Rossi at the age of 15:When I was 15, I changed it legally. In retrospect, I think it was largely due to my struggle about being gay. Everything just didn’t fit, and I was trying to find things I could identify myself with, and it started with my name. I picked Portia because I was a Shakespeare fan (Portia is the character in The Merchant of Venice). De Rossi because I was Australian and I thought that an exotic Italian name would somehow suit me more than Amanda Rogers. When you live in Australia, Europe is so far away and so fascinating, so stylish and cultured and sophisticated. An extremely gifted student, she left the lecture theaters of the Melbourne Law school to pursue an acting career.De Rossi, who was once married for two years to documentary filmmaker Mel Metcalfe, is openly lesbian. From 2000 to 2004, de Rossi dated singer Francesca Gregorini, daughter of actress Barbara Bach and stepchild of Ringo Starr. During this period, she dodged media questions about her sexual orientation or the relationship and was rarely pictured with Gregorini in public.In the September 2005 interview years later with The Advocate, de Rossi said most of her family and Ally cast mates learned she was gay through tabloid pictures of de Rossi and Gregorini in 2001. The couple broke up in late 2004 as de Rossi began dating comedian Ellen DeGeneres. In 2005, de Rossi officially came out and opened up about being gay in interviews with Details and The Advocate.In late 2006 Blender listed her as one of the hottest women of film and TV.Her first significant role was as a young, impressionable model in the 1994 film Sirens. She soon moved to Los Angeles and had guest roles on TV shows before landing a role in Scream 2.She garnered international attention when she joined the main cast of Ally McBeal playing regular lawyer Nelle Porter in 1998. She remained with the show until its end in 2002.In 2001 she starred in Who is Cletis Tout? with Christian Slater. From 2003 to 2006, de Rossi starred as Lindsay Bluth Fünke on Fox Television's critically acclaimed Arrested Development.
Filmography
Sirens (1994) as Giddy
Scream 2 (1997) as Sorority Sister Murphy
Ally McBeal (1997–2002) (TV series) as Nell Porter
Girl (1998) as Carla Sparrow
Stigmata (1999) as Jennifer Kelliho
Who is Cletis Tout? (2001) as Tess Donnelly
The Night We Called It a Day (2003) as Hilary Hunter
Arrested Development (2003–2006) (TV series) as Lindsay Bluth Fünke Dead & Breakfast (2004) as Kelly
Cursed (2005) as Zela
Nip Tuck (2007) Portia will have a reoccuring role this coming season!
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