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LISA KUDROW STARS in ‘HOTEL FOR DOGS’

Emmy Award-winning actress Lisa Kudrow continues to bring her original sense of comedic timing and delivery to every role she takes on. This summer audiences will next see Lisa star in the independent film Kabluey which premiered at the 2007 Los Angeles Film Festival and at the 2007 Hamptons Film Festival.

Lisa most recently completed shooting the independent feature films Will, Rock On and Powder Blue and the film Hotel for Dogs for DreamWorks.

Most recently audiences saw her co-star with Hilary Swank and Gerard Butler in the Warner Bros. film P.S. I Love You. The film, which is directed by Richard LaGravenese, is due for release this December. Having successfully moved beyond the role of Phoebe Buffay, the character she brilliantly portrayed on the NBC hit comedy series Friends for ten seasons, Lisa formed the production company, Is or Isn’t Entertainment, in the fall of 2003 with writer/producer Dan Bucatinsky.

Is or Isn’t Entertainment, which is based at NBC/Universal has already garnered great success. In addition to having four pilots ordered since it’s inception, Is or Isn’t’s first television series, the critically acclaimed HBO series The Comeback garnered three Emmy Award nominations including one for

While on Friends, Lisa was nominated five times, and she won once, by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She has also received a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series, an American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Female Performer in a Television Series, and a Golden Globe Award nomination.

Lisa has received rave reviews for her previous feature film roles. She won the Best Supporting Actress Award from the New York Film Critics, an Independent Spirit Award nomination and a Chicago Film Critics Award nomination for her role in the Don Roos scripted and directed film The Opposite of Sex (1998). She won a Blockbuster Award and received a nomination for an American Comedy Award for her starring role opposite Billy Crystal and Robert DeNiro in the Warner Bros. boxoffice hit Analyze This (1999) for director Harold Ramis.

Kudrow’s additional film credits include starring roles in Happy Endings (2005) for writer/director Don Roos which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival; Wonderland (2004) with Val Kilmer, in which she portrayed Sharon Holmes, wife of porn star John Holmes, in the film based on the infamous Wonderland Avenue murders; the Warner Bros. film Analyze That (2002), the sequel to Analyze This (1999), the Columbia Pictures film Hanging Up (2000) opposite Meg Ryan and Diane Keaton, Paramount’s Lucky Numbers (2000) with John Travolta, in the critically acclaimed hit comedy Romy & Michele’s High School Reunion (1997) with Mira Sorvino, Clockwatchers (1997) in which she starred opposite Toni Collette and Parker Posey and the Albert Brooks’ comedy Mother (1996).

After finding a place to hide their dog, Friday, Bruce (Jake T. Austin, left) and his sister Andi (Emma Roberts, right) eventually wind up giving shelter to most of the strays in town in the comedy/adventure “Hotel for Dogs.” DreamWorks Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies Present In Association with Cold Spring Pictures A Donners’ Company/Montecito Picture Company Production “Hotel for Dogs” starring Emma Roberts, Jake T. Austin, Kyla Pratt with Lisa Kudrow, Kevin Dillon and Don Cheadle. The film is directed by Thor Freudenthal from a screenplay by Jeff Lowell and Bob Schooley & Mark McCorkle. Based on the book by Lois Duncan. The film is produced by Lauren Shuler Donner, Jonathan Gordon, Ewan Leslie and Jason Clark. The executive producers are Ivan Reitman, Tom Pollock and Jeffrey Clifford. This film has not yet been rated.