Who portrayed Lisa Cuddy in House M.D.?

Lisa Edelstein portrayed Lisa Cuddy in House M.D.

Cuddy is the dean of medicine and hospital administrator at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. She supervises Gregory House, manages the institution’s competing demands, and repeatedly tries to control his rule-breaking approach to medicine.

Edelstein played Cuddy as an intelligent, determined administrator who could match House’s verbal sparring. The character’s authority is essential to the show because she must balance House’s diagnostic successes against patient safety, legal risks, budgets, and hospital policy.

Cuddy also became part of the series’ longer personal story through her complicated relationship with House. Jennifer Morrison played Allison Cameron, another prominent doctor on the show, which makes her a common source of confusion. Morrison did not play Cuddy; Lisa Edelstein did.