Clea Lewis

Clea Lewis (born July 19, 1965) is an American actress, best known for her television role as Ellen's annoying friend Audrey Penney in Ellen DeGeneres' groundbreaking sitcom Ellen.

Other notable roles
Lewis has also appeared on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Flying Blind. She also appeared in the first episode of Friends, in which she played Frannie. She has appeared in numerous films, including Scotch & Milk, The Rich Man's Wife, and Diabolique. Lewis played Gina, a chatty ad agency worker, in 2000 she did the voice of Amy Lawrence in Tom Sawyer (2000 film), in 2007's Perfect Stranger. She also voiced various characters in the Nickelodeon cartoon Spongebob Squarepants.

She also appeared on the short-lived Andy Barker, P.I. as Jenny Barker, the wife of the title character.

Her somewhat nasal, squeaky voice has meant a great deal of animation voice-over work for Lewis, including in both television (ABC's Saturday morning cartoon, Pepper Ann) and film (Ice Age: The Meltdown). She also recorded the book-on-CD for The Princess Diaries.

Personal life
Lewis was born in Cleveland Heights, Ohio to a writer mother and a former vaudeville performer and lawyer father. Lewis graduated from Brown University in 1987. She and her husband, Peter Ackerman, have a son, Stanley Keats, who was born in February 2002.