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Australian actress and model. Known for her marriage to Ellen de Generes and her acting roles as Nelle Porter on Ally McBeal, Lindsay Bluth Fünke on Arrested Development and Veronica Palmer on Better Off Ted. Her birth name is Amanda Rogers.

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Provides examples of the following tropes:

• All Girls Like Ponies: Portia is an experienced equestrian.
• Coming Out Story: She details this as well as her health and career issues in her autobiography.
• Fake American
• Hello Attorney: She played a sexy laywer on Ally McBeal. *
  She originally trained to be a Real Life lawyer.
• Incompatible Orientation: The reason her one relationship with a man didn't work.
• Lipstick Lesbian
• My Parents Are Dead: Her father tragically died during her childhood.
• Typecasting: As either a tough businesswoman or a dizzy blonde.

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Jonathan Ross

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Eli Roth