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Lisa Cuddy, M.D., is a fictional character on the medical drama House. She is portrayed by Lisa Edelstein. Cuddy was the dean of medicine of the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey. Cuddy quit her job after the events of season seven's finale "Moving On".
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―Dr. House's "performance review" of Cuddy in No More Mr. Nice Guy
Dr. Lisa Cuddy was a major character on House for the first seven seasons. She was the Dean of Medicine and Chief Hospital Administrator of Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital from Season 1 to Season 7. She was the direct superior of both Dr. House and Wilson. She's a specialist in endocrinology, but when she was in charge at PPTH, her administrative duties took precedence over her role as a medical practitioner.
She's often depicted as the only boss who can handle House, knowing when to give him leniency and when to say no. He often defies her, although primarily when her objections are only bureaucratic or administrative.
In addition to this professional tension, Cuddy is also seen as the object of House's sexual and romantic fantasies. A brief romantic past when she and House were students is alluded to, and House often makes lewd comments about her body and fashion choices. House implies that she often wears form-fitting, feminine clothing because she prioritizes her professional life and would otherwise be seen as a frigid, cold-hearted administrator.
Cuddy was born in late 1967 or early 1968. In the Season 7 episode Small Sacrifices her age is established as forty-two, with her forty-third birthday approaching. She tells House that she lied to Human Resources about her age when she first applied for a vice president of administration job at age twenty-nine, because she thought she would be taken more seriously if she were in her early thirties.
In the Season 5 episode The Social Contract, she claimed to be 38. However, House had been working for Cuddy for eight years prior to the beginning of Season 1, and House owed her 6 years of clinic duty in the show's pilot. Therefore, she has been House's boss for at least 13 years, indicating that she was 38 when the show started and is currently 45.
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Cuddy first knew of House when she was at the University of Michigan while he was at medical school. She describes him as "already a legend" at the time. Cuddy decided to hire House despite the fact that she acknowledged that he had already been fired from four other hospitals. The exact reason why she decided to hire House has always been kept ambiguous. She has claimed that she recognized him as an "excellent doctor who couldn't get hired at a blood bank, so [she] got [him] cheap." However, it has frequently been suggested that they had a relationship at one time - a possibility that has been confirmed at least in part by House's reference to a one-night stand when Cuddy cited his qualifications as the reason for his hiring. In Humpty Dumpty, House offered his theory that Cuddy hired him since she believes the world can be made perfect, and that he can be a better person than he is. The relationship between Cuddy and House is a strained one. House frequently ignores or works around Cuddy's instructions. He has often exposed the hospital to unlimited liability, and has a habit of alienating important donors to the hospital. However, Cuddy is frequently reminded how much better a doctor House is than she is. She admires House for his ability to ignore emotional considerations when a patient's life is on the line, and his persistence in acting for the patient's best interests. House describes Cuddy as "a control seeking narcissist" which ironically, is a perfect description of himself. House constantly bombards Cuddy with sexually suggestive comments, often remarking about the display of her breasts or the size of her buttocks. She has always seemed to enjoy this and even encouraged it during the poker game in All In. Once House started taking an interest in Cuddy's relationships, Cuddy began to believe that House was actually attracted to her. However, her reaction appeared to be that House had an earlier opportunity to have a relationship with Cuddy and did not do so. In the episode titled, Who's Your Daddy? it was suggested that Cuddy was going to ask House for a sperm donation so that she could become pregnant. However, she refrained at the last moment. Not only has Cuddy consistently protected House from the wrath of the hospital's board of directors (House has tenure and can only be removed by unanimous vote of the directors, including Cuddy), she once perjured herself to save House from indictment. However, her loyalty has often come at a very high price, such as insisting House do more clinic duty, or provide more guidance to students. It was revealed it the episode Lucky Thirteen, Cuddy will soon be adopting a baby. This doesn't seem to sit well with House. When the baby's mother subsequently chooses to keep the child, House and Cuddy kiss after House consoles Cuddy in Joy. When House goes through an extremely painful withdrawal from Vicodin in Under My Skin Cuddy is there to assist him throughout the process. The two both admit their feelings for one another, and the episode ends with House and Cuddy passionately kissing. However, in Both Sides Now, it's revealed that House was only hallucinating and that Cuddy had never helped him overcome his addiction to Vicodin and detox. In Season 6, Epic Fail, Cuddy seemed surprised and a bit saddened when House came back to tell her he was quitting. Later on, she visited House in his apartment while he was cooking with a Chinese woman. Cuddy asked House if she was the reason he left. House said no. Later, in The Tyrant, House came back to the hospital when he learned that the pain in his leg goes away when he works on a medical case. Cuddy allowed House to come back, but not to his old position right away since his medical license would take a few weeks to be reinstated. Even though Foreman asked Cuddy to not let House come back, she decided to keep House anyway. In the episode Known Unknowns, while attending a medical conference, House admits to Cuddy that he had feelings for her when he first saw her at the Michigan University library, catching her off guard. The next day, he went up to her hotel room to ask if he could help with her baby, only to find out that Lucas was in the room with the baby. Cuddy and Lucas tell House they started going out right after House was admitted to Mayfield Psychiatric Hospital. Later, in the episode Ignorance is Bliss, House tries to break up Cuddy and Lucas. Cuddy invites House to her home for Thanksgiving dinner, but gave him the wrong address to stop him from ruining the evening. She never apologizes to him. House's feelings were hurt by Cuddy's deception, although he doesn't show it. Afterwards, House breaks into Lucas' home in a "drunk" stupor, and confesses his feelings for Cuddy. She shows up at his place the next day and tells him that she and Lucas broke up. However, House finds out she lied to him when she didn't accept free tickets he offered him. In Wilson, Cuddy decides to move in with Lucas, and is seeking House's approval through Wilson. She tells Wilson that she found a nice loft for her and Lucas to live in, although she didn't realize House was listening. Later on, she tells Wilson that she was unable to buy the loft. Wilson actually told his ex-wife Bonnie to deny Cuddy the loft at every opportunity, in order to punish Cuddy for hurting House's feelings. In Help Me, Cuddy tells House that she and Lucas are engaged to be married. House accuses her of hiding their engagement from him stating that she wasn't wearing her engagement ring. She then tells him that the ring was in her desk drawer because she had to go help injured people in the crane accident they are both working at. She tells house she's "done" with him and having to always tip-toe around him to make sure he's okay. At the end of Help Me, she's in House's bathroom while he's on the floor with Vicodin in his hand after the patient he was working on with Cuddy dies from a fat embolism after he amputated her leg after much debate with Cuddy throughout. Before he takes the Vicodin, Cuddy enters his home, they have a short yet emotional conversation, where Cuddy reveals that she ended it with Lucas and that she loves him, and that she can't move forward in her life because all she thinks of is House. This surprises House, leaving him speechless, until Cuddy helps him up, and they share a tender kiss. He questions whether he's hallucinating again, like last year, and she asks him if he took the Vicodin; he says no, ignoring the fact that he hallucinated not taking any during his psychotic episode a year before. Then she smiles, and he kisses her again, before the camera shows their hands intertwined. In Bombshells, Cuddy faced the possibility that she may have terminal cancer. During the episode, she experienced a series of dream sequences which suggested that she believed House to be an unreliable partner. House avoided being at her bedside. When House did eventually show up, Cuddy later realised he must have taken Vicodin to be with her. She confronted House about his Vicodin use and broke up with him. Following the break-up, House engaged in a series of provocative behaviour designed to make Cuddy jealous, including marrying Dominika Petrova in the hospital. In After Hours, House performed surgery on his own leg in his bathtub. After trying to call several other people but failing to get through, House called Cuddy and she arrived with Rachel to take him to the hospital. After this incident, Cuddy expressed a desire to fix their relationship as friends. In the episode Moving On, House drove his car into Cuddy's house, permenantly ending their relationship. After this episode, there was no reference to Cuddy having contact with House for the remainder of the series. Cuddy did not come to his funeral in Everybody Dies.
•She's left handed, which House points out in the beginning of Three Stories.
•She is the only main character of the entire series who was not present in the series finale.
•According to House:
•Cuddy only wears thongs.
•Cuddy matches her bra and thong colors.
•She shares the same first name as the actress who portrays her.
Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital (or PPTH) is the fictitious teaching hospital where House is set. It's located in Princeton, New Jersey on Prospect Street (as seen on Chase's GPS when he rushes to the hospital in After Hours) The hospital presumably is located near the neighboring...
Nov 2, 2023 · Having a dedicated studio space allowed the crew to efficiently film scenes in Dr. House‘s office, Dr. Cuddy‘s office, exam rooms, operating rooms, and other key hospital locations. On-Location Shooting. For added realism, some on-location shooting took place at hospitals around L.A., including: Glendale Adventist Medical Center in Glendale, CA.
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Clinic duty. As a public teaching hospital, Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital (PPTH) runs a free clinic. Doctors who work at the hospital are required to put in a minimum number of hours working at the clinic.
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