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Phoebe Buffay-Hannigan is a fictional character from the NBC sitcom ''Friends'', portrayed by Lisa Kudrow. For her portrayal of Phoebe Buffay, Kudrow received a Golden Globe Award nomination, as well as winning the Primetime Emmy Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, Satellite Award, and American Comedy Award. ==Background== Phoebe Buffay is the younger twin daughter born to Phoebe Abbott (Teri Garr) and Frank Buffay (Bob Balaban), February 16, 1965; her identical twin sister Ursula (also portrayed by Lisa Kudrow, and spun off from the character of the same name whom Kudrow portrayed on ''Mad About You''), was born one minute earlier.〔As said in "The One with the Halloween Party".〕 Frank was married to Abbott's best friend, the unstable Lily, at the time; Lily adopted Phoebe and Ursula. She is from upstate New York, her father abandoned the family when she was very young, and Lily remarried an unnamed man. She mentions that her family was very poor (her stepfather sold his blood on her birthday to buy them food) and claims that her mother was a drug dealer. Lily committed suicide when Phoebe and Ursula were thirteen, by carbon monoxide poisoning; afterward their stepfather went to prison. She occasionally mentions Lily's strange behavior and methods of raising her children. By age 14, Phoebe was living on the streets, although Ursula apparently was not; no explanation for why one twin became homeless while the other apparently grew up under adult supervision of some kind was ever provided. References to Phoebe's colorful past on the streets are made throughout the series. Phoebe lived in many locations including an abandoned Buick LeSabre, an AMC Gremlin with "a guy named Cindy who talked to his hand," and with an albino man who washed windows outside the Port Authority Bus Terminal. She did not attend high school or college, but claimed that she met behind a dumpster with a small group to learn French,〔As said in "The One with the Rumor".〕 in which she is fluent.〔As shown in "The One Where Joey Speaks French".〕 Phoebe occasionally resorted to mugging to survive; at one point, when she was 14, she mugged her later good friend Ross Geller (David Schwimmer) near a comic shop, stealing the only copy of Ross' comic ''Science Boy'', which she claims "taught me well". Phoebe also mentions that she once lived in Prague, Czech Republic but refuses to discuss it further. She also claims that she contracted hepatitis when a pimp spat in her mouth; was stabbed by a police officer, whom she stabbed in return; learned to box at a YMCA; has been tortured; and at one point made sombreros (and got called "bad little white girl" by her employer for not making them big enough). Phoebe moved in with Monica Geller (Courteney Cox) after answering a roommate want ad, which began their friendship.〔As shown in The One with the Flashback".〕 While living with Monica, she married a man named Duncan Sullivan (Steve Zahn), a gay Canadian ice dancer, in order to help him obtain a green card. He later revealed that he is straight, and was just pretending to be gay "to fit in", resulting in a divorce during the second season, although Phoebe had genuine feelings for him. She moved out when she could no longer handle Monica's controlling tendencies,〔 choosing to live with her grandmother in her apartment, at 5 Morton Street, apartment #14. After her grandmother's death in the fifth season, Phoebe inherited the apartment and her yellow taxicab. Phoebe's relationship with Ursula was revealed to be strained, ostensibly due to the latter's personality, which is portrayed as markedly aloof by comparison. In season 2, Phoebe learns that she has a younger half-brother, Frank Buffay Jr., played by Giovanni Ribisi. Their relationship develops over the course of the series, and a multi-episode story arc revolves around her decision to serve as a surrogate mother for Frank and his older wife Alice (Debra Jo Rupp), who is also his former schoolteacher. Phoebe eventually gives birth to their triplets. Frank makes appearances through the show's final season. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Phoebe Buffay」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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