Lake Bell

Lake Bell is far more than the polished comic actress she is often reduced to. A New Yorker who writes, directs, and produces, she belongs to the camp of performers who got tired of waiting for good roles and started building worlds themselves. I love her comic timing in things like Boston Legal and What Happens in Vegas, but it is her authorship that earns my respect, choosing to be the architect rather than just the hire. Add her well-documented obsession with the human voice, and you get a genuinely idiosyncratic artist. I always root for creators who refuse to stay in their assigned lane.

Name (English)

Lake Bell

Name (Japanese)

レイク・ベル

Reading

れいく・べる

Born

March 24, 1979 (age 47)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Goat

Origin

New York City, New York, United States

Occupation

actor / film director / screenwriter / film producer / film actor

University

Skidmore College

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Bell
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%99%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q241686

Tags

• New York
• actor
• film director
• screenwriter

Last updated

2026-06-11

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.