Clea Lewis (born July 19, 1965) is an American actress, best known for her television role as Ellen's annoying friend, Audrey Penney in
Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen Lee DeGeneres ( ; born January 26, 1958) is an American comedian, television host, actress, writer, and producer. She starred in the sitcom '' Ellen'' from 1994 to 1998, which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award for " The Puppy Episode". S ...
' sitcom ''
Ellen''.
Personal life
Lewis was born in
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
Cleveland Heights is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States, and one of Cleveland's historical streetcar suburbs. The city's population was 45,312 at the 2020 census. As of the 2010 census, Cleveland Heights was ranked the 8th largest ...
, 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
''The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'' is an American television sitcom created by Andy and Susan Borowitz for NBC. It aired from September 10, 1990, to May 20, 1996. The series stars Will Smith as a fictionalized version of himself, a street-smart ...
'' and ''
Flying Blind''. She also appeared in the
pilot episode
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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
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cartoon ''
SpongeBob SquarePants
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''.
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'') as Nicky Little and film (''
Ice Age: The Meltdown''). She also recorded the book-on-CD for books 4-10 of ''
The Princess Diaries'' book series.
Filmography
Film
Television
Theatre
References
External links
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1965 births
Living people
Actresses from Cleveland
American musical theatre actresses
American television actresses
American voice actresses
Brown University alumni
People from Cleveland Heights, Ohio
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American actresses
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