Portia De Rossi Hollywood Actress And Model

Portia Lee James DeGeneres, known professionally as Portia de Rossi, is an Australian actress, best known for her roles as lawyer Nelle Porter on the television series Ally McBeal and Lindsay Bluth Funke on the sitcom Arrested Development.

Her first significant role was playing a young and impressionable model in the Australian 1994 film Sirens. Soon afterwards she moved to Los Angeles and had guest roles on several TV shows, and a permanent role in Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher, before landing a role in the film Scream 2.

She attracted international attention when she joined the main cast of the Ally McBeal TV series in 1998 playing lawyer Nell Porter.

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