Dr. Lisa Cuddy is the Dean of Medicine and hospital administrator of Princeton-Plainsboro. She is 43-years-old, Jewish and has a mother and one sister; her father had passed away. She began dreaming of becoming a doctor at the age of 12, graduated from medical school at 25 being second best in the class and became the first female and second youngest Dean of Medicine at age 32. Cuddy attended the Johns Hopkins University where she first met Gregory House, her future employee, and had a one night stand. Years later, when House suffered with an infarction in his right leg (prior to the series), he was treated by Cuddy in Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. Under Cuddy's care and the order of his then-girlfriend, Stacy Warner, the dead muscle in his leg was removed against House's explicit wishes after he was put into a medical coma, leaving House with a permanent disability and chronic pain.After hiring House to run the hospital's diagnostics department, Cuddy began putting aside $50, 000 a year for potential legal expenses. During Season 1, new chairman of the board Edward Vogler wanted to dismiss House, Cuddy urged the board to keep House and fire Vogler instead, resulting in losing the $100 million donation he'd given the hospital. During Season 2, it's revealed that Cuddy was trying to conceive a child. House agreed to administer the twice-daily injections necessary to undergo the in-vitro fertilisation and kept the matter secret. During Season 3, Cuddy confessed to House's best friend, Wilson that she'd had a total of three attempted pregnancies and one had miscarried. She was hurt by House, who at the time was going through Vicodin withdrawal, after he told her it was a good thing she'd failed to become a mother as she'd be terrible at it. When House's career was threatened by Michael Tritter, Cuddy committed perjury by falsifying documents and lying in court to cover up his wrong-doing.Cuddy questioned whether House had a romantic interest in her after he repeatedly interrupted her blind date. When Wilson took Cuddy to the theatre and an art exhibition, House intervened to prevent Cuddy becoming Wilson's fourth wife. Cuddy revealed during Season 5 that she planned to adopt a child however she was devastated when the baby's birth mother, Joy, decided to keep her. House consoled her and the two shared a passionate kiss. Cuddy professed that she didn't want a relationship with House but was touched when he'd had her old desk from medical school brought out of storage when her office was renovated. Cuddy became a foster parent and a potential adoptive parent to a baby girl called Rachel. She initially struggled with parenthood, revealing to Wilson that she felt nothing for Rachel but soon after, she began to bond with her. Cuddy helped House detox from Vicodin and the two slept together although in the Season 5 finale, it was revealed to be a hallucination on House's part; in reality, he'd spent the evening alone and was suffering from emotional trauma and psychiatric problems as a result of the Vicodin.Throughout Season 6, Cuddy is in a relationship with a private investigator, Lucas (who was originally hired by House to spy on Wilson in season 5) and her adopted daughter. She still cared for House after he went through his Vicodin rehabilitation. She found that her life had become more stressful, what with her job, the addition to her family and House still harbouring feelings for her. Cuddy tried asking House to just be friends, but he refused stating that that was the last thing he wanted. In the Season 6 finale, House gave Cuddy an antique medical text written by her great grandfather, which prompted her to admit that herself and Lucas had gotten engaged the previous night. However, at the end of the episode, Cuddy went to House's apartment and told him that she'd broken off with Lucas. The two shared another kiss and held hands.At the end of Season 7, House crashed into the front of Cuddy's house. She resigned as Dean of Medicine after this event.Cuddy is portrayed by Lisa Edelstein. Show less «