Anne Dudek
After success on Broadway she made the jump to television, with her first starring role coming on the British comedy drama The Book Group in 2002 at the age of 27. She has since guest starred on many other shows, including Desperate Housewives (as Karl Mayer's girlfriend in Season 1), How I Met Your Mother (as Ted's Krav Maga-trained ex-girlfriend), Friends, Charmed, Bones (as Seeley Booth's lawyer girlfriend), Numb3rs and Six Feet Under. She also played Lucinda Barry in the pilot episode of Psych, and a sex-offender teacher on Law & Order: Criminal Intent. In both How I Met Your Mother and Friends her character got dumped on her birthday.
