{"id":467959,"date":"2026-05-30T16:09:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T16:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/467959\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T16:09:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T16:09:21","slug":"lisa-kudrow-mistaken-for-unexpected-celebrity-while-on-friends-she-doesnt-know-who-i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/467959\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisa Kudrow mistaken for unexpected celebrity while on Friends: \u2018She doesn\u2019t know who I am\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It\u2019s not uncommon for celebrities to be mistaken for completely different stars<\/a> \u2013 whether it\u2019s Keira Knightley and Natalie Portman getting mixed up, or fans confusing Claudia Winkleman and Davina McCall. <\/p>\n

However, when Friends star Lisa Kudrow was mistaken for a very famous singer, she struggled to see the resemblance. <\/p>\n

The 62-year-old revealed in a recent interview that a fan approached her during the height of her Friends fame, thinking she was Dionne Warwick \u2013 the Grammy Award-winning \u201cWalk On By\u201d singer who is now 85. <\/p>\n

When asked byThe Hollywood Reporter to recall the \u201cmost bizarre\u201d fan interaction she\u2019s ever had, she told the Comedy Actresses roundtable: \u201cI have my favourite.<\/p>\n

\"LisaLisa Kudrow revealed that a fan mistook her for Dionne Warwick (Reuters)<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was during Friends, and I was going to Jerry\u2019s Deli or something and the hostess had an accent. She was from somewhere in Eastern Europe and just went [whispering], \u2018I know who you are.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201cI went, \u2018Aw, yeah.\u2019 And she said, \u2018You are Dionne Warwick.\u2019 I just went, \u2018No, I\u2019m not. I am not.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Surrounded by her surprised fellow panellists \u2013 Ashley Padilla, Quinta Brunson, Rachel Sennott, Hannah Einbinder and Keke Palmer \u2013 Kudrow continued: \u201cI kind of felt this, \u2018She doesn\u2019t know who I am?\u2019 And then it was, wait \u2026 Dionne Warwick?<\/p>\n

\u201cI said, \u2018She\u2019s a legendary singer!\u2019 I just thought it was the funniest thing ever.\u201d <\/p>\n

Warwick is best known for her 1966 track \u201cAlfie\u201d and her 1971 single \u201cI\u2019ll Never Fall in Love Again\u201d, which won her a Grammy for Best Contemporary Vocal Performance that year. <\/p>\n

Kudrow played Phoebe Buffay on hit sitcom Friends throughout its entire 10-year run, originating the role in 1994. She went on to star in cult comedy Romy and Michele\u2019s High School Reunion and mockumentary The Comeback, which returned for a third series earlier this year. <\/p>\n

She recently claimed that \u201cnobody cared\u201d about her while she was on Friends, telling The Independent in April<\/a>: \u201cThere were certain parts of [my talent agency] that just referred to me as \u2018the sixth Friend.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\"LisaLisa Kudrow as Phoebe in \u2018Friends\u2019 (NBC)<\/p>\n

When asked about that comment by THR, Kudrow spoke further on it, saying: \u201cThat was what the talk among the business folk was. But I really didn\u2019t care because it didn\u2019t matter. <\/p>\n

\u201cI did a movie right after the first season, an Albert Brooks movie. Yay! And then the next season, I did two movies: Romy and Michele\u2019sHigh School Reunion and Clockwatchers. I just thought it doesn\u2019t matter, does it, what anyone thinks? I have to do what I do.\u201d<\/p>\n

In April, she also revealed that the women within the show\u2019s cast faced \u201cintense\u201d scrutiny<\/a> from its mostly male writers\u2019 room, saying that there was \u201cmean stuff going on behind the scenes\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t forget we were recording in front of a live audience of 400, and if you messed up one of these writers\u2019 lines or it didn\u2019t get the perfect response, they could be like, \u2018Can\u2019t the bitch f***ing read? She\u2019s not even trying. She f***ed up my line,\u2019\u201d she told The Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[437,1503,146,85,46,411],"class_list":["post-467959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-arts","tag-culture","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}