Iris Bahr (born January 1, 1977) is an American actress, comedian, director, writer and producer. She has appeared on Friends (as Glenda in "The One with Ross' Tan"), Curb Your Enthusiasm as Rachel Heinemann (Season 5 episodes "The Ski Lift" and "The Korean Bookie"), and The King of Queens. Bahr also played a lead role in the 2006 film Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector, and played the director of a documentary in the 2010 horror film The Last Exorcism. Her TV series Svetlana which she wrote, directed, starred and executive produced, ran on Mark Cuban's cable network HDnet for two seasons. She completed filming the Sony pilot Irreverisble opposite David Schwimmer in April 2014. She will also guest star in Two and a Half Men in the series finale.
Currently performing her new solo show DAI at the Culture Project. [December 2006]
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Tel Aviv, Israel: Currently developing her own TV series "Rachel and Noah" for an Israeli network. [May 2012]
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Writing and directing Svetlana, an original TV series created by Bahr that is being produced by Mark Cuban. [August 2009]
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Tel Aviv, Israel: Just completed filming a series regular role on the Israeli TV series "Irreversible" for Channel 2. [April 2012]
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Solo show DAI currently running Off Broadway through March 2nd [January 2008]
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Her one woman show "Planet America" was nominated for Best Solo Performance Award by LA Weekly [January 2003]
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Her humorous memoir "Dork Whore" (Bloomsbury) out in bookstores [March 2007]
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Winner 2008 Lucille Lortel Award for Best Solo Show (DAI, written and performed by Iris Bahr.).
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Nominated for UK Stage Award for Outstanding Solo Performance for DAI (enough).
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Nominated for Drama Desk Award 2007 for Outstanding Solo Performance for her solo show DAI (enough), which she also wrote. Other nominees in her category include Vanessa Redgrave and Ed Harris.
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Invited to perform her solo show at the United Nations May 2007.
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Majored in Neuropsychology and Religious Studies.
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New Face of Comedy at the 2003 Montreal Just for Laughs Comedy Festival
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Conducted cancer and brain research at Brown University where she graduated magna cum laude.
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Served two years in the Israeli military and had the rank of sergeant.
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