Anne Dudek thought Dr. Amber Volakis was going to be a lot like "Bones’" Tess: There to annoy, and gone in a few episodes.

“With Amber, though, I was a little wrong about that. I remember getting the first few scripts for House and thinking, ‘They’re going to write me off immediately. She’s such a total piece of work.'”

But having a female antagonist — a feminine version of the crotchety titular character — “was a lot of fun. There was a lot of gold to be mined in the writing from having a character like Amber,” Dudek says. “They kept me around for a while.”

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