Biography
Portia de Rossi is an Australian-American actress, model, and philanthropist. She is best known for her roles as Nelle Porter on the American drama series Ally McBeal (1998–2002), for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award, Lindsay Bluth Fünke on the American television sitcom Arrested Development (2003–2006, 2013, 2018–2019), and Elizabeth North on the American political thriller series Scandal (2014–2017). De Rossi was born Amanda Lee Rogers in Horsham, Victoria, Australia, on January 31, ...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Ellen Degeneres: For Your Approval
2024
as Self (uncredited)
In the final special of her historic career, Ellen gets candid about fame, parallel parking and her life since getting "kicked out of show business".
Ellen Degeneres: For Your Approval
2024
Executive Producer
In the final special of her historic career, Ellen gets candid about fame, parallel parking and her life since getting "kicked out of show business".
Adele One Night Only
2021
as Self
A primetime special with performances from the superstar including Adele’s first new material in six years plus her chart-topping hits. The special wi...
Ellen DeGeneres: Relatable
2018
as Herself
In her first special since 2003, Ellen revisits her road to stardom and details the heartfelt -- and hilarious -- lessons she's learned along the way.
Now Add Honey
2015
as Beth Morgan
When a pop-star cousin comes to stay, a family's once normal life changes drastically.
Unity
2015
as Narrator (voice)
Despite the advent of science, literature, technology, philosophy, religion, and so on -- none of these has assuaged humankind from killing one anothe...
Tab Hunter Confidential
2015
as Self
Throughout the 1950s, Tab Hunter reigned as Hollywood’s ultimate male heartthrob. But throughout his years of stardom, Tab had a secret. Tab Hunter wa...
The Arrested Development Documentary Project
2013
as Self
Featuring interviews from major cast and crew members, along with 200 fans from across the country, this documentary tells the whole story of this ama...
Mockingbird Lane
2012
as Lily Munster
Settling into their new home—the rambling Victorian mansion at 1313 Mockingbird Lane— the Munster are quickly onto the mission at hand: to gently ease...
The Shift
2009
as Denise Moore
From the creators of You Can Heal Your Life: The Movie comes a compelling portrait of three modern lives in need of new direction and new meaning. In ...
Cursed
2005
as Zela
A werewolf loose in Los Angeles changes the lives of three young adults who, after being mauled by the beast, learn that the only way to break the cur...
Dead & Breakfast
2004
as Kelly - The Bride
Six friends on a road trip stop for the night at a bed and breakfast in the sleepy town of Lovelock. After a night that leaves both the inn's owner an...
The Night We Called It a Day
2003
as Hilary Hunter
Based on the true events surrounding Frank Sinatra's tour of Australia. When Sinatra calls a local reporter a "two-bit hooker", every union in the cou...
I Witness
2003
as Emily Thompson (as Portia De Rossi)
After 27 bodies are discovered in a collapsed tunnel in Tijuana, a man tries to unravel the mystery before becoming the next victim.
America's Prince: The John F. Kennedy Jr. Story
2003
as Carolyn Bessette Kennedy
A look inside the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
The Glow
2002
as Jackie Lawrence
A newly-wed NYC couple move into a low-rent luxury apartment only to be harassed by cryptic elderly neighbors.
Who Is Cletis Tout?
2001
as Tess Donnelly
A comedy about a hitman who sees everything in terms of the movies and how mistaken identity is getting in the way of recovering a stash of diamonds t...
Women in Film
2001
as Gina
Three women in Hollywood talk to the camera one summer (with a coda six months later). Sara is a casting director; her soliloquies are addressed to Sa...
Stigmata
1999
as Jennifer Kelliho
A young woman with no strong religious beliefs, Frankie Paige begins having strange and violent experiences, showing signs of the wounds that Jesus re...
American Intellectuals
1999
as Sarah
Seven WASP, blonde, privileged teens reside in the exclusive Hamptons, New York. Their group and entire existence consists of PLUs (People Like Us).
The Invisibles
1999
as Joy
Jude and Joy escape to her Parisian flat for a private detox. A dark comedy of word games, sex, fantasy and pop tarts.
Perfect Assassins
1998
as Leo Benita
When deadly terrorists strike, an FBI man, who is an expert on terrorist mentality, hunts their twisted "creator," who may be connected with a disgrac...
Girl
1998
as Carla
Andrea Marr is a bright, straight-A, mature, 18-year-old high school senior on the verge of womanhood who decides to abandon her sheltered, boring lif...
Scream 2
1997
as Sorority Sister Murphy
Two years after the first series of murders, as Sidney Prescott acclimates to college life, someone donning the Ghostface costume begins a new string ...
Sirens
1994
as Giddy
In 1930s Australia, Anglican clergyman Anthony Campion and his prim wife, Estella, are asked to visit noted painter Norman Lindsay, whose planned cont...