Clea Lewis


Clea Lewis is an American actress and singer, best known for her television role as Ellen's annoying friend, Audrey Penney 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. Lewis graduated from Brown University in 1987. She has two sons with her husband Peter Ackermann, 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 and film. She also recorded the book-on-CD for books 4-9 of The Princess Diaries book series.

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre