Lisa Jane Persky

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

1955-05-05

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Lisa Jane Persky

Biography

Lisa Jane Persky (born May 5, 1955) is an American actress. Persky was born in New York City, New York, the daughter of Jane Holley (née Wilson) and Mort Persky. She grew up in New York's Greenwich Village and attended the High School of Art and Design. She debuted as Robert Duvall's daughter in The Great Santini and went on to act in such movies as American Pop, The Big Easy, When Harry Met Sally..., Coneheads, KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park, and Peggy Sue Got Married. She wrote for New York Rocker magazine in the 1970s and dated former Blondie bass player Gary Valentine Lachman. On January 19, 2008, she married music historian and former co-star of the Comedy Central game show Beat the Geeks Andy Zax. In 2009 and 2010, Persky began making appearances on The Best Show on WFMU radio program, as both as a regular caller and as an in-studio special guest. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lisa Jane Persky, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Acting History

2014
I Am Divine as Self
2006
Grilled as Sally Wilson
2005
Invasion as Disheveled Woman
2005
Twins as Marcy
2002
The Dogwalker as Allison
2001
My First Mister as Sheila
2001
An American Rhapsody as Pattie
2001
The Division as Ann Fenwick
2000
Meat Loaf: To Hell and Back as Wilma Aday
1999
Tumbleweeds as Diner Waitress
1999
Goosed as The Psychic
1998
Perfect Assassins as Janice Franklin
1998
Where's Marlowe?
1997
Female Perversions as Margot
1997
The Practice as Karen Garvey
1997
King of the Hill as (voice)
1995
Destiny Turns on the Radio as Katrina
1994
Pontiac Moon as Alicia Frank
1994
Touched by an Angel as Stasi Reynolds
1994
Touched by an Angel as Alison Spears
1994
Dead Funny as Sarah
1993
The X-Files as Laura Weinsider
1993
Coneheads as Lisa Farber
1991
The Antagonists as Joanie Rutledge
1990
Vital Signs as Bobby
1990
The Last of the Finest as Harriet Gross
1990
Grand as Jenny Seaton
1989
When Harry Met Sally... as Alice
1989
Great Balls of Fire! as Babe
1989
Quantum Leap as Marion Keisker
1988
Sharing Richard
1987
Private Eye
1986
The Big Easy as McCabe
1986
Peggy Sue Got Married as Delores Dodge
1986
Designing Women
1986
Crime Story as Joanne Goldman
1986
Crime Story: Pilot as Joanne Goldman
1985
Amazing Stories as Shirley Crater
1985
The Twilight Zone as (segment "The Once and Future King")
1985
The Golden Girls as Kate
1985
The Sure Thing as Mary Ann Webster
1984
The Cotton Club as Frances Flegenheimer
1984
Shattered Vows as Cathy
1983
Desperate Intruder as Linda
1983
Breathless as Salesgirl
1981
American Pop as Bella (voice)
1981
The Choice as Emmy Soames
1979
The Great Santini as Mary Anne Meechum
1978
KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park as Dirty Dee
1977
The Fitzpatricks
1976
Elaine: A Story of Lost Love as Felicie
1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self