What is the full name of House’s colleague Dr. Cuddy in House M.D.?

House’s colleague Dr. Cuddy is named Lisa Cuddy.

Lisa Cuddy is the hospital administrator and an endocrinologist at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. She frequently has to balance institutional rules, patient safety, budgets, and House’s disruptive methods. Her authority over House creates one of the show’s most persistent professional conflicts.

The character was played by Lisa Edelstein. Cuddy’s relationship with House develops across the series from a tense supervisory connection into a more complicated personal and romantic storyline. The character’s medical background also gives her a credible basis for challenging House’s decisions.

The first name is sometimes mixed up because the character is most often addressed by her surname, “Cuddy.” It is also easy to confuse the fictional doctor with the actress, since both are closely associated with the name Lisa. The canonical character name is Lisa Cuddy, while Lisa Edelstein is the performer who portrayed her.