Lisa Cuddy is the fictional dean of medicine played by Lisa Edelstein in House M.D.
Cuddy administers Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital and supervises Dr. Gregory House. Her job requires balancing patient care, budgets, legal concerns, and House’s unconventional behavior. She frequently confronts him over rule-breaking while also recognizing that his diagnostic ability can save patients whom other doctors cannot identify.
The character has a complicated professional and personal relationship with House. Their long-running tension becomes an important storyline, especially as Cuddy tries to maintain authority while dealing with House’s dependence on Vicodin and his disregard for ordinary hospital procedure.
Lisa Edelstein played Cuddy for most of the series, but she left after the seventh season. The name is sometimes confused with Stacy Warner, House’s former partner and a hospital lawyer, or Allison Cameron, a member of his diagnostic team. Cuddy is specifically the hospital administrator and dean of medicine.