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Name	Portia de Rossi
Date of Birth	31 January 1973
Spouse/Partner	Ellen DeGeneres
Gender	Female
Occupation	Actress, Comedian, Model
Height	5 ft 7 in (1.708 m)
Religion	Non-religious (Assumption)
Net worth	$50 Million

Portia de Rossi Early Life and Biography

Portia de Rossi was born Amanda Lee Rogers in Horsham, Victoria, Australia, to Margaret, a medical receptionist, and Barry Rogers, a part-Jewish father.

When she was nine years old, her father died. She grew up in Grovedale, a suburb of Geelong, Victoria, and worked as a child model for print and television advertising. Rogers took the name Portia de Rossi when she was 15 years old, and it is the moniker by which she is best known.

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Portia de Rossi Education

She attended Geelong Grammar School and went on to study law at the University of Melbourne.

Portia de Rossi Career

When De Rossi joined the main cast of Ally McBeal in 1998 to play lawyer Nelle Porter, she gained international notoriety. She was a part of the show till it ended in 2002. She co-starred in Who Is Cletis Tout? with Christian Slater in 2001. De Rossi played Lindsay Bluth Fünke on Fox Television’s Arrested Development from 2003 to 2006. In 2003, she played Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, John F. Kennedy Jr.’s wife, in the made-for-TV film America’s Prince: The John F. Kennedy Jr. Story. In the same year, she starred as an Australian reporter in The Night We Called It a Day, in which she inspired a protest against Frank Sinatra during a concert tour.

In February 2012, it was revealed that ABC had ordered a pilot for a new drama series called The Smart One, which featured de Rossi in a lead role and was executive produced by Ellen DeGeneres. The actress was set to play a “brainy and successful lady who reluctantly works for her less-smart but more popular sister — a former beauty queen, weather lady, and now big-city Mayor.” The Smart One, on the other hand, was not renewed for the 2012–2013 season.

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Filming for a restored fourth season of Arrested Development began in August 2012, six years after the series was canceled by Fox, and de Rossi reprised her role as Lindsay Bluth Fünke. This fourth season had 15 new episodes that premiered on Netflix on May 26, 2013. Each episode centered on a different character, with de Rossi’s Lindsay appearing in Episodes 3 and 8, “Indian Takers,” as well as various other episodes throughout the season.

De Rossi was cast as Elizabeth North in Season 4 of Scandal in July 2014, according to ABC.

De Rossi announced her retirement from acting on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in May 2018.

Portia de Rossi Partners and Marriages

From 1996 until 1999, De Rossi was married to documentary filmmaker Mel Metcalfe. She said in a 2010 interview on Good Morning America that she was afraid of being discovered as a lesbian as a young actress.

De Rossi dated Francesca Gregorini, the daughter of Barbara Bach and the stepdaughter of Ringo Starr, from 2001 to 2004. She claimed that until tabloid images of the couple were published, most of her relatives and Ally McBeal castmates had no idea she was a lesbian.

DeGeneres proposed to her in 2008, and they became engaged. On August 16, 2008, they married in front of their mothers and 17 other guests at their Beverly Hills home. De Rossi filed a petition to legally alter her name to Portia Lee James DeGeneres on August 6, 2010.

Both DeGeneres and de Rossi became vegans in 2008, though DeGeneres later announced in December 2018 that she is no longer vegan. They’ve taken in a number of rescue animals.