Clea Lewis
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Clea Lewis | |
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Born | Cleveland Heights, Ohio, U.S. | July 19, 1965
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1991–present |
Spouse(s) | Peter Ackerman |
Children | 2 |
Clea Lewis (born July 19, 1965) is an American actress and singer, best known for her television role as Ellen's annoying friend, Audrey Penney[1] in Ellen DeGeneres' sitcom Ellen.
Personal life[]
Lewis was born in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, to a writer mother and a former vaudeville performer and lawyer father. Lewis graduated from Brown University in 1987. She has two sons with her husband, playwright and children's book author Peter Ackermann: Stanley, born in 2002, and Alvin, born in 2005.
Career[]
Lewis appeared on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Flying Blind. She also appeared in the pilot episode of Friends, in which she played Frannie. She has appeared in numerous films, including Scotch & Milk, The Rich Man's Wife, and Diabolique. In 2000, she performed the voice of Amy Lawrence in Tom Sawyer. Lewis played Gina, a chatty ad agency worker, in 2007's Perfect Stranger. She also voiced various characters in the Nickelodeon cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants.
She also appeared on the short-lived Andy Barker, P.I. as Jenny Barker, the wife of the title character.
Her somewhat nasal, squeaky voice has meant a great deal of animation voice-over work for Lewis, including in both television (ABC's Saturday morning cartoon, Pepper Ann) and film (Ice Age: The Meltdown). She also recorded the book-on-CD for books 4-9 of The Princess Diaries book series.
Filmography[]
Film[]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1992 | Hero | Sylvia | |
1996 | Diabolique | Lisa Campos | |
1996 | The Rich Man's Wife | Nora Golden | |
1998 | Scotch and Milk | Ilsa | |
2000 | Tom Sawyer | Amy Lawrence (voice role) | Direct-to-Video |
2000 | The Office Party | Grace | Short film |
2004 | Superstore | Joan | Short film |
2006 | Ice Age: The Meltdown | Female Mini Sloth/Dung Beetle Mom (voice role) | |
2007 | Perfect Stranger | Gina | |
2009 | Motherhood | Lily | |
2009 | Confessions of a Shopaholic | Miss Ptaszinski | |
2009 | Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs | Start Mom (voice role) | |
2013 | Life of Crime | Tyra Taylor |
Television[]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1991 | Doogie Howser, M.D. | Lyla | Episode: "It's a Wonderful Laugh" |
1992 | The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air | Krista | Episode: "Hilary Gets a Life" |
1992–1993 | Flying Blind | Megan | series regular (22 episodes) |
1994 | Friends | Franny | Episode: "The One Where Monica Gets a Roommate" |
1994–1998 | Ellen | Audrey Penney | series regular (79 episodes) |
1995 | Mad About You | Salesperson | Episode: "Purseona" |
1995 | Double Rush | Danielle | Episode: "Love Letters" |
1996 | Maury | Herself (Guest) | Episode: "10.17.1996" |
1997–2000 | Pepper Ann | Nicky Anais Little (voice role) | recurring role (32 episodes) |
1998–1999 | Maggie Winters | Rachel Tomlinson | recurring regular (16 episodes) |
1999 | Tracey Takes On... | Carol | Episode: "Road Rage" |
1999 | The Angry Beavers | Wanda (voice role) | Episode: "Tough Love/A Little Dad'll Do You" |
2000 | Madigan Men | Wendy | Episode: "Pilot" |
2007 | Andy Barker, P.I. | Jenny Barker | series regular (6 episodes) |
2008 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Heaven Moscowitz | Episode: "Trade" |
2010 | The New Adventures of Old Christine | Emily | Episode: "Truth or Dare" |
2015 | The Affair | Simone | Episode: "2.4" |
2015–2016 | Royal Pains | Margaret Redding | recurring role (5 episodes) |
2017 | Doubt | Tanya Gibson | Episode: "Pilot" |
2017 | The Americans | Deirdre Kemp | recurring role (4 episodes) |
2017 | The Blacklist | Alexa Girard | Episode: "Philomena (No. 61)" |
Theatre[]
Year | Title | Role | Venue | Notes |
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1998 | All in the Timing | unknown role | Geffen Playhouse | |
1999 | Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight | unknown role | Promenade Theatre | |
2002 | Once in a Lifetime | Miss Leighton | Adams Memorial Theatre | |
2005 | Absurd Person Singular | Jane | Biltmore Theatre |
References[]
- ^ Clea Lewis is Audrey Penney on Ellen Archived November 23, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
External links[]
- Clea Lewis at IMDb
- 1965 births
- American television actresses
- American voice actresses
- Brown University alumni
- Living people
- Actresses from Cleveland
- 20th-century American actresses
- 21st-century American actresses
- People from Cleveland Heights, Ohio
- American screen actor, 1960s birth stubs
- American musical theatre actresses