An actress equally adept at comedy and drama, the comely and luxuriously dark-maned Lisa Zane has been a working actor since the late 80s, although actual stardom has proven somewhat elusive. She is best recalled as the big-hearted advocate lawyer Melinda Paros on the final season of NBC's "L.A. Law" (1992-1993), as Claire Ruth, wife of "Babe Ruth" in the 1991 NBC TV biography, and, more recently, as Diane Leeds, the rich girl bedding Dr. Ross (George Clooney) on early episodes of "ER" (NBC, 1994)

A product of Vassar and the Circle-in-the-Square theater in New York, Zane broke into TV in 1987