Dr. Lisa Cuddy.  To describe Cuddy, I’d have to say resilient.  You would pretty much have to be resilient to put up with House and his antics however.  She doesn’t take anything from anyone, House in particular.  I would say that she’s pretty much the only other character on the show that can control House at all, if you’d even call it control.  In reality, you can see the good relationship between House and Cuddy.  They fight a lot, and of course there is sexual tension.  She loves him and hates him all at the same time, but in a different way than Cameron.

There hasn’t been any information about Cuddy’s past revealed, or any about her family.  House and Cuddy had a history before the show started.  They supposedly met at the University of Michigan.  She also treated House when he had the infarction in his leg, and at that point, she wasn’t the Dean of Medicine, simply a doctor.

Cuddy sometimes reminds me of a mother, and House a child, with her keeping him in line.  It’s obvious that Cuddy agrees with House’s decisions about risking lives to save lives, but has to keep a political point of view, since she’s the “boss” as House has so many times stated.  Cuddy seems to also prefer Foreman to the other Doctors’ of House’s team, even before the new team.  She often took Foreman’s side in minor situations throughout the seasons.

We see a couple of episodes where Cuddy and Wilson went out on dates, and this of course made House insanely jealous, although he never admitted that.  She was looking for a father for a child, and Wilson was a candidate.  It’s fairly obvious that a lot has gone on in the past between House and Cuddy, particularly a one-night stand.  House’s attraction is also apparent in many situations, where he makes sexual jokes toward her.

Overall, Cuddy is a great character, and is the perfect person for keeping House in-line.  It’s obvious that deep down, she’s a caring person that just wants to live a normal life.  We see her excellent parental abilities when she’s given custody of a patient that was a young girl.  Although at first she thought she was doing a terrible job, in the end it turned out better than she expected.