Lisa Cuddy, M.D., is a fictional character on the Fox medical drama House. She is portrayed by Lisa Edelstein. Cuddy is the Dean of Medicine and hospital administrator at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital.
 
I think that [Cuddy] very much loves House and also lives vicariously through him, because she’s a very smart woman who was very successful as a doctor and has a great job and a wonderful position, but also has had less and less to do with the actual practice of medicine as the years have gone by. So I think she’s excited by what he does and how he does it and deeply frustrated by him at the same time.