Portia De Rossi

Portia de Rossi is an Australian-American actress known for Arrested Development (Fox, 2003–2019), in which she played the hilariously self-absorbed Lindsay Bluth Fünke, and for Ally McBeal (Fox, 1998–2002). She came out as lesbian in 2005 after years of secrecy, and in 2008 married Ellen DeGeneres — one of the first same-sex marriages performed in California after the state Supreme Court ruling. In her memoir Unbearable Lightness (2010) de Rossi wrote with raw honesty about her years of hiding her sexual identity, her struggle with anorexia, and the way that the simultaneous pressures to appear straight, thin, and perfect had nearly destroyed her. She and DeGeneres remain one of the most enduring same-sex couples in entertainment. De Rossi largely stepped back from acting in the 2010s and has devoted much of her energy to art philanthropy.