Lake Bell Movies and Career Information

Lake Bell (born March 24, 1979) is an American actress. 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 Harvey Siegel. Bell has stated that while she is not Jewish, her father is Jewish and her mother is "a WASP", and that she was raised in a "comically dysfunctional family". She has an older brother and two half-sisters. 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 and The Pentecost. She remained in London for a year after graduating, before moving to Los Angeles, California. Bell's first significant role was as the lead female NBC's War Stories, also starring Jeff Goldblum. She made two guest appearances on ER in 2002, before acting as Alicia Silverstone's wisecracking best friend, Victoria, in NBC's short-lived series Miss Match. In 2004, Bell made her debut as Sally Heep in