Clea Lewis

Clea Lewis (born July 19, 1965)^[1] is an American actress and singer, best known for her television role as Ellen's annoying friend, Audrey Penney^[2] in Ellen DeGeneres' sitcom Ellen.

Personal life

Lewis was born in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, to a writer mother and a former vaudeville performer and lawyer father.^[3] Lewis graduated from Brown University in 1987. Her husband, Peter Ackerman, and she have two sons, Stanley, born in 2002, and Alvin, born in 2005.

Career

Lewis appeared on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Flying Blind. She also appeared in the first episode of Friends, in which she played Frannie. She has appeared in numerous films, including Scotch & Milk, The Rich Man's Wife, and Diabolique. In 2000, she did the voice of Amy Lawrence in Tom Sawyer. Lewis played Gina, a chatty ad agency worker, in 2007's Perfect Stranger. She also voiced various characters in the Nickelodeon cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants.

She also appeared on the short-lived Andy Barker, P.I. as Jenny Barker, the wife of the title character.

Her somewhat nasal, squeaky voice has meant a great deal of animation voice-over work for Lewis, including in both television (ABC's Saturday morning cartoon, Pepper Ann) and film (Ice Age: The Meltdown). She also recorded the book-on-CD for The Princess Diaries.

Filmography

References

External links

• Clea Lewis on IMDb