Personal life

Lewis was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, the daughter of Marlene, a nursing administrator, and Jim Lewis, an air traffic supervisor. She has a sister, Denise. Lewis graduated from Anderson High School in Cincinnati in 1978. She studied musical theater at the University of Cincinnati - College-Conservatory of Music. After receiving her diploma she moved to New York. She proceeded to work in various on and off-Broadway shows.

Lewis was in a long-term relationship with Nick Nolte. The two met during the filming of I'll Do Anything. She is married to sound engineer Philip G. Allen.

Career

Lewis's film appearances include roles in Finding Nemo, Finding Dory, MouseHunt, Godzilla, Pushing Tin, 2007's California Dreaming with NewsRadio co-star Dave Foley, and 2010's Den Brother. On television, Lewis starred for 5 seasons on the NBC sitcom NewsRadio, followed by Three Sisters and the WB animated comedy Mission Hill. She made guest appearances on Seinfeld (in the episodes "The Secretary" and "The Race") and Murphy Brown. In a recurring role on Home Improvement, she played Maureen Binford, producer of the show-within-a-show Tool Time. On How I Met Your Mother, she had the recurring role of Lily Aldrin's doctor, "Dr. Sonya".

She appeared on Caroline in the City, The Norm Show, Grace Under Fire, Phenom and The 5 Mrs. Buchanans. Most recently, she made guest appearances on Surviving Suburbia, ABC's Grey's Anatomy, Disney Channel's Sonny with a Chance as Ms. Bitterman, the social worker on The Middle, and FX's Dirt.

Aside from Mission Hill, her voice acting career includes characters in Justice League Heroes, Rugrats Pre-School Daze, King of the Hill, Hercules: The Animated Series, An Extremely Goofy Movie, Finding Nemo, Phineas and Ferb, and Justice League: The New Frontier. Most recently, she voiced Eve in the 2010 film Alpha and Omega and its sequel.

On stage, Lewis has appeared in City of Angels and My One and Only in Los Angeles, and has performed as a soloist with the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall. Her Broadway credits include Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?, Snoopy!!! The Musical, Damn Yankees, Chicago and The Crucible. She also appeared with Peter Gallagher and Patti LuPone in Pal Joey at the New York City Center. Lewis won the 2007 Ovation Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for the world premiere of Michael John LaChiusa's Hotel C'est L'amour.

She was part of the one-night celebrity-performed staging of Howard Ashman's unproduced musical Dreamstuff. The musical was re-imagined by Ashman's partners Marsha Malamet and Dennis Green and performed one night only at Los Angeles's Hayworth Theatre as part of the Bruno Kirby celebrity reading series. Her debut solo album East of Midnight was released in May 2010. The eclectic rock album has songs penned by Lewis as well as three cover songs. Lewis says this about the writing of the album: "The words and music of these songs unfolded before me like a foreboding window into a chapter of my life that would prove to be dauntingly destructive and spiritually bereft. Locked in my office in Malibu, California I wrote what would become a self-fulfilling prophecy - it would also prove to be the making of me."

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1994	I'll Do Anything	Millie
1995	Bye Bye Birdie	Gloria Rasputin	Television film
1997	MouseHunt	April Smuntz
1998	Godzilla	Dr. Elise Chapman
1999	Breakfast of Champions	Grace Le Sabre
	Pushing Tin	Tina Leary
2000	An Extremely Goofy Movie	Beret Girl in Café (voice)	Direct-to-video
2003	Finding Nemo	Deb / Flo (voice)
2007	California Dreaming	Teensie Porter
2007	The Last Day of Summer	Paige	Television film
2008	Justice League: The New Frontier	Iris West Allen (voice)	Direct-to-video
2008	Roadside Romeo	Mini (voice)	Uncredited
2009	Wonder Woman	Persephone (voice)	Direct-to-video
	Dr. Dolittle: Million Dollar Mutts	Chubster (voice)
	The Ugly Truth	Saleswoman
2010	Den Brother	Dina Reams	Television film
	Alpha and Omega	Eve (voice)
2012	I Married Who?	Vivienne	Television film
2014	Tom and Jerry: The Lost Dragon	Drizelda (voice)	Direct-to-video
2016	Finding Dory	Deb / Flo (voice)

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1985	CBS Schoolbreak Special	Diane Kaplan	Episode: "The Day the Senior Class Got Married"
1992	Home Improvement	Maureen Binford	2 episodes
1993	Murphy Brown	Secretary #59	Episode: "One"
	Grace Under Fire	Wanda	Episode: "Say Goodnight, Gracie"
1994	Phenom	Betsy	Episode: "Angela's Fifteen Minutes"
	Seinfeld	Ada	2 episodes
1995	The 5 Mrs. Buchanans	Donna	Episode: "Viv'acious"
1995-98	NewsRadio	Beth	94 episodes
1996	Caroline in the City	Merle Heller	Episode: "Caroline in the Cereal"
1997, 1999, 2001-03, 2005	Rugrats	Miss Carol, Miss Weemer, Witch, Mother Cat (voice)	6 episodes
1998	Hercules	Arachne (voice)	Episode: "Hercules and the Tapestry of Fate"
1999	The Wild Thornberrys	Weasel (voice)	Episode: "Lost and Foundation"
	The Norm Show	Kyra	Episode: "Drive, Norm Say"
2000	King of the Hill	Kate (voice)	Episode: "Movin' on Up"
	The Huntress	Myrna Factor	Episode: "Pilot"
1999-2000, 2002	Mission Hill	Posey Tyler, Natalie Leibowitz-Hernandez (voice)	13 episodes
2001-02	Three Sisters	Nora Bernstein-Flynn	18 episodes
2005	Rugrats Pre-School Daze	Ms. Weemer (voice)	4 episodes
2007-08, 2010	Betsy's Kindergarten Adventures	Molly (voice)	17 episodes
2007	Come on Over	Actress Vicki	Episode: "Thespians"
	Grey's Anatomy	Harriet	Episode: "Physical Attraction... Chemical Reaction"
2008	Dirt	The Beautician	Episode: "What Is This Thing Called?"
	Phineas and Ferb	Lulu (voice)	Episode: "Greece Lightning/Leave the Bustin to Us"
	Ben 10: Alien Force	Serena (voice)	Episode: "X = Ben + 2"
	'Til Death	Melissa	3 episodes
2009	Bones	Helen Bridenbecker	Episode: "The Skull in the Sculpture"
2009-10	Sonny with a Chance	Ms. Joy Bitterman	5 episodes
2009	Surviving Suburbia	Clerk	2 episodes
	Curb Your Enthusiasm	Stacey	Episode: "The Table Read"
	The Middle	Ms. Barry	Episode: "The Scratch"
2011	Melissa & Joey	Alexis McKenna	Episode: "The Settlement"
	Batman: The Brave and the Bold	Wonder Woman, Star Sapphire (voices)	2 episodes
2011-12	How I Met Your Mother	Dr. Sonya	3 episodes
2011	Ben 10: Ultimate Alien	Agent Locke (voice)	Episode: "The Widening Gyre"
2012	Checked Out	Lisa	3 episodes
2013	Doll & Em	Carla	2 episodes
	Austin & Ally	Donna	Episode: "Family & Feuds"
2014	Turbo FAST	Arctic Hare, Rich Lady #1 (voices)	Episode: "A Tale of Two Turbos/The Escargot Affair"
	See Dad Run	Kat	2 episodes
	Complete Works	Ashley Spitzer
	Doc McStuffins	Dr. Tundra (voice)	Episode: "McStuffins School of Medicine/The Super Amazing Ultra Hoppers"
2015	Modern Family	Erica	2 episodes

Video Games

Year	Title	Voice Role
2003	Finding Nemo	Deb / Flo
2009	Ben 10 Alien Force: Vilgax Attacks	Serena

[ Source: Wikipedia ]