• Name: Portia de Rossi
  
• Birth Name: Amanda Marie Rodgers
  
• Height: 5' 7 1/2"
  
• Sex: F
  
• Nationality: Australian
  
• Birth Date: January 31, 1973
  
• Birth Place: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  
• Profession: actress
  
• Education: Melbourne University, Melbourne, Australia (majored in Law)
  
• Husband/Wife: Mel Metcalf (documentarian; divorced)
  
• Relationship: Francesca Gregorini (Italian; actress; born on August 7, 1968)
  
• Father: Barry Rogers (died in 1982)
  
• Mother: Margaret Rogers (medical receptionist)
  
• Brother: Michael
  
• Claim to fame: as Nelle Porter on Fox's comedy Ally McBeal (1998-2002)
  

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• On changing her name: "It was the most courageous thing I've ever done."

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