- Source of Wealth: Film, Television
- Age: 52
- Birth Place: Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
- Height: 5′ 4″ (1.63 m)
- Weight: 132 lbs (60 kg)
- Marital Status: Married (Robert Russell)
- Full Name: Lisa Edelstein
- Nationality: American
- Date of Birth: May 21, 1967
- Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish
- Occupation: Actress, Playwright
- Education: New York University (Tisch School of the Arts)
Upon her election by The New York Times as a “top celebutante” in 1986 (due to her popularity in N.Y.C.’s club scene), then-19-year-old Lisa Edelstein reportedly grew wary of “fame for fame’s sake” and spent years grounding her celebrity in a series of well-respected,if minor, acting assignments.
She made a small-scale debut in a prestigious film — the role of the makeup artist in Oliver Stone’s controversial Jim Morrison biopic The Doors (1991) — and thereafter was often pigeonholed in sitcom appearances, typically as a comically eccentric girlfriend or wife.
Edelstein scored a lead role several years later on the hit medical drama House, in which she plays Dr. Lisa Cuddy, Dean of Medicine at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, who must constantly contend with the eccentricities and misanthropy of Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie).
Edelstein was born to a Jewish family in Boston, Massachusetts,currently resides in Los Angeles.She is a vegetarianand an avid practitioner of Mysore style Ashtanga