Lisa Edelstein played Dr. Lisa Cuddy in House, M.D. Cuddy is the dean of medicine and hospital administrator at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, making her House’s supervisor and a frequent opponent of his methods.
Cuddy has to balance patient care, hospital finances, legal concerns, and House’s disregard for rules. Her professional relationship with him gradually becomes romantic, and they briefly become a couple. Their relationship ends after House drives his car into Cuddy’s dining room, an act that follows an emotionally intense conflict.
Edelstein played Cuddy from the first season through season seven. She did not return as a regular cast member for the eighth and final season. A common mix-up is calling Cuddy House’s permanent spouse or describing her only as an administrator; she is both the hospital’s senior medical leader and one of the show’s principal characters.