Lake Bell Biography

Birth Name : Lake Caroline Siegel Bell

Date of Birth : 24 March 1979, New York City, New York, USA

Height : 5' 8" (1.73 m)

Occupation : Actress

The bewitching Lake Bell was born and raised in New York City, later heading across the state to Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs before making the leap across the pond to transfer to Rose Bruford College in London, England. It was there that she began to get her acting feet wet, appearing in numerous stage productions.

Following roles in two movies that were never released, she got work in the NBC-TV movie War Stories, starring Jeff Goldblum. Guest appearances on two episodes of ER followed, as well as a small role in I Love Your Work (2003), starring Christina Ricci, Jason Lee and Vince Vaughn, but it was screened only at a handful of film festivals.

However, Bell soon got her big break when she landed the regular role of Victoria in NBC-TV's Miss Match from 2003 to 2005, starring Alicia Silverstone. Almost simultaneously, she was chosen to appear in four episodes of the hit ABC-TV series The Practice in 2004 as Sally Heep, a role she would later be asked to recreate as a series regular in the spinoff, Boston Legal. Bell left the show in 2005 to play the lead in the sci-fi series Surface. When it was cancelled in 2006, she decided to tackle the big screen. Roles quickly came her way in motion pictures such as Over Her Dead Body (2008), starring alongside Eva Longoria Parker and Paul Rudd.