LAKE BELL AT THE 2013 ESPYS

Born: March 24, 1979 , New York City, New York, United States

Height: 1.73 m

Spouse: Scott Campbell (m. 2013)

Siblings: Luke Bell Siegel, Mackenzie, Courtney

Parents: Robin Bell, Harvey Siegel

Lake Bell is an American actress, writer and director. She has starred in the television series Miss Match (2003); The Practice (2004) and its spinoff Boston Legal (2004–2006) as Sally Heep; Surface (2005–2006); How to Make It in America (2010–2011) and Childrens Hospital (2008–present) and in the films Over Her Dead Body, What Happens in Vegas and Pride and Glory (all 2008); It's Complicated (2009); Burning Palms (2010); and Little Murder, No Strings Attached and A Good Old Fashioned Orgy (all 2011). She has also written and directed her own award-winning short film, Worst Enemy, which débuted at the Sundance Film Festival.

Early life

Bell was born in New York City, the daughter of Robin Bell, owner of the design firm Robin Bell Design, Inc. in New York, and real estate developer Harvey Siegel, who famously bought the then-closed Virginia International Raceway and converted it into a racetrack country club. Her father is Jewish and her mother is Protestant. Bell has stated that she was raised in a "comically dysfunctional family".

Bell attended The Chapin School in New York and Westminster School in Simsbury, Connecticut. For part of her teenage years she lived in Vero Beach, Florida and attended St. Edward's School. She attended Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York before transferring to Rose Bruford College in London where she acted in several theatrical productions including The Seagull, The Children's Hour, Six Degrees of Separation, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire and Pentecost.