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Anne Dudek More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

22 March 1975, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Birth Name

Anne Louise Dudek

Height

5' 10½" (1.79 m)

Mini Biography

Anne was raised in Newton, Massachusetts. She got the role of Iphigenia in "The Iphigenia Cycle" in Chicago while still in theater school at Northwestern University. She was a resident artist at The Court Theatre in Chicago. The production moved off-Broadway to New York City, where she won the Joseph E. Calloway award for her performance, and was profiled in American Theater Magazine as one of ten young theater artists to watch. She then appeared on Broadway in Wrong Mountain, in productions in several regional theaters, and won the Connecticut Critics Circle Award for outstanding performance in The Glass Menagerie.

Anne also worked in the United Kingdom as Clare in the BAFTA-nominated television series "The Book Group" (2002).

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Spouse

Matthew Heller

(? - present) 1 child

Trivia

Polish-American.

Her husband, Matthew, is a painter.

Son, Akiva Heller, born December 14, 2008.

Has had prominent roles as a member of a fundamentalist polygamous cult on two different TV shows: as Emmanueline Kirtland on "Numb3rs" (2005) {in the 2007 episode "Nine Wives"} and as Lura Grant on "Big Love" (2006).

One of three "Mad Men" (2007) regulars who grew up in Newton, Massachusetts. Robert Morse and John Slattery also grew up in Newton.

In two different sitcoms, the same thing happens to her character - her boyfriend breaks up with her on her birthday. In Friends (season 10, episode 1), Mike Hannigan breaks up with her. In 'How I met your Mother', Ted breaks up with her on her birthday.