Before Friends: Played Ursula, the ditzy waitress (and Phoebe's twin sis), on Mad About You
Family Life: Married to French ad exec Michel Stern; they have one son, Julian, 5
Best Friends moment: Being a surrogate mom for her brother's triplets
What's next?: This fall's Wonderland with Val Kilmer

Like her free-spirited alter ego, Lisa Kudrow is terrible at keeping secrets – which is why she has no idea how Friends will end. "The smartest thing is, 'Don't tell me – it's too easy for me to blab,'" she says. Still, Kudrow is pleased with the evolving maturity of Phoebe, who looks to be settling down with Mike (Paul Rudd). "I'm happy to see her straightening out," says Kudrow.

Phoebe may have taken a while to grow up, but not Kudrow, 40, who says that when the show wraps she is looking forward to "commitments with my son's school." She also plans to continue working. With big-screen hits ('99's Analyze This) and misses (this summer's Marci X) under her belt, she hopes to do more films – "any story that's told well" – but not TV. "The TV audience knows me as Phoebe," she says. "It's hard for them to swallow me as another character."

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