House' Calls on Lisa
From 'Queen' to dean, Fox TV's Dr. Cuddy is cutting-edge complex
February 18, 2010 - Michael Elkin, Arts & Entertainment Editor

Where to go after you've been a conquest of George Costanza?

Smell the coffee? Smell the kasha! For Lisa Edelstein, everything has been looking up. Indeed, the "Risotto Girl" of "Seinfeld" has never felt more ... fulfilled.

"Definitely for now," says the satiated star of Fox's "House," in which she plays not-so-cuddly Cuddy, dean of medicine at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital.

If life has taught her anything, however, finding fulfillment...