PORTIA DE ROSSI (LINDSAY FÜNKE)Portia de Rossi has had a widely varied career, captivating audiences in both television and film.

De Rossi starred as Lindsay Bluth Funke in the critically acclaimed comedy Arrested Development. The show won a Primetime Emmy® Award in 2004 for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble and was nominated for an Emmy® Award in 2006 and a SAG Award® in 2005. De Rossi is best known for her portrayal of enigmatic lawyer Nelle Porter on the hugely successful series, Ally McBeal. She also starred as a fifth-season series regular on the popular drama Nip/Tuck as Olivia Lord, a holistic medicine practitioner who has problematic relationships with both her girlfriend, Julia, and her out-of-control daughter.

On the big screen, she starred in Wes Craven's Cursed, opposite Christina Ricci, Chris Ver Wiel's Who is Cletis Tout?, opposite Richard Dreyfuss and Tim Allen, Paul Goldman's The Night We Called It a Day, opposite Dennis Hopper and Melanie Griffith, Wes Craven's Scream 2, Rupert Wainwright's Stigmata, Bruce Wagner's Women in Film, Noah Stern's The Invisibles and Michael Goorjian's Ambition to Meaning, with Wayne Dyer.

De Rossi received her first acting break in the feature film Sirens, directed by John Duigan and opposite Hugh Grant, Sam Neill and Elle Macpherson.