Who is Anne Dudek? Everything You Need to Know

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Also Known As: Anne Louise Dudek

Age: 49 Years, 49 Year Old Females

Family:

Spouse/Ex-: Matthew Heller (m. 2008)

children: Akiva Heller, Saskia Heller

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Height: 5'10" (178 cm), 5'10" Females

Ancestry: Polish American

City: Boston

U.S. State: Massachusetts

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education: Northwestern University

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Career

From the mid-1990s through the early 2000s, Anne Dudek appeared in several theater productions while in college. She played the titular role in ‘The Iphigenia Cycle’ and was featured in the Broadway production of ‘Wrong Mountain’ and ‘The Glass Menagerie’, the latter of which earned her the Connecticut Critics Circle Award.

Her first starring role on television came in 2002 when she appeared in the lead role in the British drama ‘The Book Group’. She then featured in the American television programs ‘For the People’, ‘Judging Amy’, ‘Six Feet Under’ and ‘Friends’. Dudek made her film debut with the 2003 drama film ‘The Human Stain’. A year later, she played the role of Tiffany Wilson in ‘White Chicks’, a comedy flick about a pair of FBI agents who don whiteface in order to solve a pair of kidnappings. The film was a financial success and it grossed over $113 million worldwide. After this, the actress made guest appearances in the drama series ‘Invasion’, ‘Bones’ and ‘How I Met Your Mother’.

In 2006, Dudek was cast as Brittany in the American sitcom ‘Big Day’. That year, she also starred in the movies ‘Park’ and ‘10 Items or Less’. She next joined the cast of ‘Mad Men’ as Francine Hanson. From 2007 to 2012, the actress portrayed the character of Amber Volakis in the medical drama ‘House’. During this period, she also had roles in the series ‘Big Love’ and ‘Covert Affairs’. She featured as Benedicte Schaeffer in the crime drama series ‘Those Who Kill’ in 2014.

Following guest appearances in an episode each of ‘Grimm’, ‘Grey's Anatomy’ and ‘NCIS: New Orleans’, Dudek did the film ‘Middle Man’, a black comedy about an aspiring comedian who picks up a mysterious hitchhiker while on a road trip to Las Vegas. In 2017, she starred in the sitcoms ‘The Flash’ and ‘You're the Worst’. The following year, she joined the cast of ‘Corporate’ as a series regular. The actress was also seen playing Pamela Duncan in the police procedural web TV series ‘Bosch’ the same year.

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Family & Personal Life

Anne Dudek was born on March 22, 1975, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She studied at Newton North High School and later graduated from Northwestern University. She married Matthew Heller in 2008. The couple had two kids, Akiva and Saskia, before they got divorced in 2016.

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