Nedra Stern, a celebrity mother, passed away at the end of February 2020. Lisa Kudrow, her daughter, is a well-known actress who played Phoebe Buffay in the American comedy Friends.
The series was Lisa’s breakout, earning her Screen Actors Guild, Primetime Emmy, Satellite, and American Comedy Awards.
Her Phoebe role is regarded as one of the best TV characters. Lisa’s film credits include The Opposite of Sex, The Comeback, and Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion.
Who was Nedra Stern’s husband? And is her daughter married?
Continue reading to learn more about Nedra and her family.
Nedra Stern Children and Grandchildren
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Family Details about Nedra Stern
Early life
Lisa Valerie Kudrow was born on July 30, 1963, in Los Angeles’ Encino area. Her parents were Nedra, a travel agent, and Lee Kudrow, a doctor who specialized in headache treatment. She has two brothers, David and Derrick, and an elder sister, Helene.
She grew up in a middle-class Jewish home and had a Bat Mitzvah. She has Jewish ancestry from Belarus, Germany, Hungary, and Poland.
Some of her Belarusian relatives came from Ilya. Almost all Jews in Ilya were killed during the Holocaust, including Kudrow’s paternal great-grandmother. Her paternal grandmother eventually left Belarus for Brooklyn, where her father grew up.
Bio of Nedra Stern
Nedra Stern was a travel agent married to Lee Kudrow, a headache specialist.
She is kept out of the spotlight, and nothing is known about her personal life. Nedra and Lee Kudro lived in Los Angeles, California, with their four children.
Theirs was a middle-class Jewish household. Nedra died in late February 2020, and her funeral was held at the start of the Covid-19 epidemic.
To minimize the transmission of the airborne infection, her daughter Lisa urged the attendees at the burial not to hug one another.
Lee’s parents were David Kudrow (born in Mogilev, Belarus) and Gertrude Farberman (born in Ilya, Belarus).
His maternal grandmother, Mera Mordejovich, was murdered during the Holocaust, causing his mother to escape to Brooklyn, where he was raised.
Nedra Stern Children
Nedra and Kudrow have four children: Helene Marla Kudrow, Lisa Kudrow, David B. Kudrow, and Derrick Kudrow. Helene was born in 1960 and is a painter and sculptor. David was born on August 8, 1957, and is a neurologist who specializes in headache care. Derrick was born in 1959 and prefers to live his life out of the spotlight.
Lisa was born in Encino, Los Angeles, on July 30, 1963. She attended Tarzana’s Portola Middle School before graduating from Woodland Hills’ Taft High School. Lisa studied Biology at Vassar College and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, hoping to emulate her father. Lisa spent eight years working for her father while entering into acting.
Lisa’s acting career was inspired by her brother’s boyhood friend, comedian Jon Lovitz, who encouraged her to attend The Groundlings, a sketch comedy school in Los Angeles. She began by auditioning for roles on the NBC series Cheers and Saturday Night Live in 1990. Prior to her breakthrough role in Friends, she appeared in a few episodes of Bob, Newhart, Just Temporary, and Close Encounters.
Lisa co-starred as Phoebe Buffay on Friends from 1994 to 2004. She was the first cast member from Friends to get an Emmy Award. She also became one of the highest-paid television actresses of all time, alongside Jennifer Aniston and Courtney Cox. Lisa has appeared in numerous films and television shows, including Hanging Up, Dr. Dollitle Two, Analyze This, Simpsons, Hope & Gloria, & Scandal. She has appeared in several comic films, including Happy Endings, Easy A, Long Shot, and Booksmart.
Lisa married Julian Murray Stern in May 1995, and the couple had a son named Julian Murray Stern.
Personal life
Kudrow wedded a French marketing executive, Michel Stern, on the afternoon of May 27, 1995. The couple lives in Beverly Hills, California, and has a son named Julian, born on May 7, 1998.
In the fourth season of Friends, Kudrow’s character became a surrogate mother for her half-brother and his wife, resulting in triplets.
In addition to her Beverly Hills home, Kudrow owned a penthouse in Park City, Utah, which she sold in April 2017. In 2019, she revealed that she battled body dysmorphic disorder while working on Friends.
