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Ella Dershowitz

Ella Dershowitz

Acting

Biography

Ella Dershowitz graduated from Yale with an honors BA in theater. Her stage credits include Twelfth Night at Cape Cod's Payomet Theater and the off-Broadway production of A Splintered Soul. Her film and television credits include David Mamet's Phil Spector, Knife Fight, and Lie to Me. She is also an actress and writer. She is the daughter of lawyer and legal scholar, Alan Dershowitz.

Known For

Lie to Me
7.9

The world's leading deception researcher, Dr. Cal Lightman, studies facial expression, body language and tone of voice to determine when a person is lying and why, which helps law enforcement and government agencies uncover the truth. But his skills also make it easier for him to deceive others.

Lie to Me

2009
The Affair
6.7

The emotional effects of an extramarital relationship between Noah, a New York City schoolteacher and budding novelist with a wife of twenty years and four children and Alison, a young waitress and wife from Montauk at the end of Long Island, trying to piece her life back together in the wake of a tragedy.

The Affair

2014
I Am Michael
5.5

The controversial true story of a gay activist who rejects his homosexuality and becomes a Christian pastor.

I Am Michael

2015
Phil Spector
5.7

A drama centered on the relationship between Phil Spector and defense attorney Linda Kenney Baden while the music business legend was on trial for the murder of Lana Clarkson.

Phil Spector

2013
Addiction: A 60's Love Story
4.2

Family man Max Bornstein was a full-time dope fiend working within the underground, highly illegal pornography industry in 1968’s New York City. While running books and films to delivery points and mob headquarters around the east coast, Max had the Feds on his tail. But even in the wake of a federal investigation, his truest worry was his wife and two young children, a family kept in the dark about his dealings and the walls of it caving in around him. As he battles his consuming addiction, dissolving family unit and the growing suspicion about his drug use amongst his associates, Max watches helplessly as his well-crafted reality falls to pieces, leaving him searching for the spaces in between.

Addiction: A 60's Love Story

2015
Pitching Tents
5.5

In a working-class town in 1984, a high school senior's future creates a tug-of-war between his no-nonsense father and his crackpot guidance counselor until an encounter with a goddess helps him uncover his true destiny.

Pitching Tents

2017
Two-Bit Waltz
5.5

Suspension from school, the loss of a friend, a broken heart and lack of inspiration lead to Maude's downfall in this romp through teenage error. Your teenage years are never easy… but for Maude, things couldn't be worse. Within one week, she is suspended from school, stranded by her best friend, dumped by the boy she loved and inherits an enormous amount of money with the passing of her grandmother– only to be claimed under one condition: Maude must prove by age 18 that she knows exactly what to do with her life. But with her 18th birthday rapidly approaching, Maude must dive into a world of self-discovery or else lose the inheritance.

Two-Bit Waltz

2014
Knife Fight
5.0

A political strategist juggling three clients questions whether or not to take the high road, as the ugly side of his work begins to haunt him.

Knife Fight

2013