Portia de Rossi acts.
== Career ==De Rossi's first significant role was as a young and impressionable maid in the Australian 1994 film Sirens
 She played Nelle Porter on the American drama series Ally McBeal (19982002), for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award, Lindsay Bluth Fnke on the American television sitcom Arrested Development (20032006, 2013, 20182019), and Elizabeth North on the American political thriller series Scandal (20142017)

