Lake Bell (born March 24, 1979) is an American actress, writer and director. She has starred in the television series Miss Match (2003); The Practice (2004) and its spinoff Boston Legal (2004"2006) as Sally Heep; Surface (2005"2006); How to Make It in America (2010"2011) and Childrens Hospital (2008"present) and in the films Over Her Dead Body, What Happens in Vegas and Pride and Glory (all 2008); It's Complicated (2009); Burning Palms (2010); and Little Murder, No Strings Attached and A Good Old Fashioned Orgy (all 2011). She wrote and directed her own award-winning short film, Worst Enemy, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival followed by her feature film debut In a World... in 2013.