Portia de Rossi acted in Better Off Ted.
 The actress was to star as a "brilliant and successful woman who begrudgingly goes to work for her less-brainy but more popular sister  a former beauty queen, weather girl and now big-city Mayor
In May 2018, de Rossi announced on The Ellen DeGeneres Show that she would be retiring from acting, though she later elaborated that she would make an exception for future seasons of Arrested Development

