de Rossi plays Lindsay in Arrested Development (Picture: Getty; Netflix)

Portia de Rossi is bowing out for good.

The Arrested Development star has announced her intention to give up acting, revealing that she wants to take up something more ‘challenging and difficult’ in the coming years.

De Rossi, who is perhaps best known for her role on Arrested Development as Lindsay Fünke, revealed her big decision during a guest appearance on her wife Ellen DeGeneres’ talk show.

The Ellen episode, which airs today (16 May), will see de Rossi explain her decision to quit acting after enjoying a two decade-long career, which has included stints in Scandal, Ally McBeal and Nip/Tuck.


de Rossi and her wife, Ellen Degeneres (Picture: Getty)

‘I was approaching 45 and I was just wondering was there something that I could tackle now that I’ve never done before that would be very challenging and different,’ she explained.



‘I kind of knew what acting would look like for me for the next 10, 20 years, so I decided to quit and start a business.’

That business is in fact an art curation and publication company called General Public – which it now seems de Rossi will pour her full efforts into.

The fifth season of Arrested Development will arrive at the end of the month (Picture: Netflix)

De Rossi’s last acting job may come with the upcoming season of Arrested Development, which is set for release on Netflix on 29 May.

Fans will now be speculating about whether the fifth season of the Ron Howard-narrated cult TV show will also be its last – or, at the very least, whether de Rossi’s character Lindsay will depart the show for good in the forthcoming set of episodes.

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