Lake Bell
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Lake Bell at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival premiere of A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
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Lake Siegel Bell March 24, 1979 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress, director, screenwriter |
| Years active | 2001–present |
| Spouse(s) | Scott Campbell (m. 2013) |
| Children | 1 |
Lake Siegel Bell (born March 24, 1979) is an American actress, director, and screenwriter.
She has starred in the television series Boston Legal (2004–06), Surface (2005–06), How to Make It in America (2010–11) and Childrens Hospital (2008–2016) and in the films Over Her Dead Body (2008), What Happens in Vegas (2008), It's Complicated (2009), No Strings Attached (2011) Million Dollar Arm (2014), Man Up (2015) and The Secret Life of Pets (2016).
She wrote and directed the short film Worst Enemy, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012, followed by her 2013 feature film directing debut In a World..., in which she also starred.
Bell was born in New York City. Her mother, Robin Bell, owns the design firm Robin Bell Design in New York. Her father is real estate developer Harvey Siegel, who bought the then-closed Virginia International Raceway and converted it into a racetrack country club, and who owned New Jersey Motorsports Park.
Bell's 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 Saint Edwards School. She attended Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, before transferring to Rose Bruford College in London. There she acted in theatrical productions including The Seagull, The Children's Hour, Six Degrees of Separation, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire and The Pentecost.
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