Lisa Kudrow: 'I was Who Do? guinea pig'

Lisa Kudrow has suggested that she was NBC's "guinea pig" for their adaptation of the BBC's Who Do You Think You Are?

The former Friends actress told Parade that her family's eventful past made her a good early guest on the show.

Kudrow said: "The producers sort of made me the guinea pig because they decided I had a good story to tell.

"There were some things that my father didn't know and that I didn't know about. For me, it became a Holocaust story uncovering things that relatives suffered that were brutal and also surprising."

She added: "That's kind of the key to the show: What we can learn from uncovering our past. I think almost everyone who's seen it has tried to find out more about their own family tree.

"It's the intimate details of these stories that personalise history and that adds to the impact... It turns out that everything is a clue when you're trying to piece together a life from a few hundred years ago."

> Click here to read our interview with Lisa about the show