Lisa Cuddy was House’s hospital employer and romantic partner in House M.D.
Dr. Cuddy serves as the dean of medicine and hospital administrator at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. Her job requires her to balance budgets, patient safety, institutional rules, and House’s willingness to disregard authority in pursuit of a diagnosis.
Cuddy and House have a long, complicated relationship that eventually becomes romantic. Their history predates the main events of the series, and Cuddy understands both House’s exceptional medical ability and the professional risks created by his behavior.
Lisa Edelstein played Cuddy through the show’s seventh season. The character’s name is sometimes confused with Stacy Warner, another important woman from House’s past, but Stacy is House’s former partner and attorney, not the hospital administrator.