Lake Bell

About

Lake Siegel Bell (born March 24, 1979) is an American actress, screenwriter, and director. She has appeared in various television series, including Boston Legal (2004–2006), Surface (2005–2006), How to Make It in America (2010–2011), Childrens Hospital (2008–2016), and Bless This Mess (2019–2020) and in films including Over Her Dead Body (2008), What Happens in Vegas (2008), It’s Complicated (2009), No Strings Attached (2011), Million Dollar Arm (2014), No Escape (2015), Man Up (2015), The Secret Life of Pets (2016), Shot Caller (2017), Home Again (2017), and The Secret Life of Pets 2 (2019).
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. In 2017, she directed, wrote, co-produced, and starred in I Do… Until I Don’t. She voiced Poison Ivy in the HBO Max series Harley Quinn (2019–2025), and appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Black Widow in the Disney+ series What If…? (2021–2024) and X-Men ’97 (2026), and as Dr. Graham in the film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022).

Lake Siegel Bell was born on March 24…