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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

49

Gender

Female

Birthday

1955-05-05 (70 years old)

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Also Known As

Lisa Persky

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.

Known For

Acting

The Big Easy

1986

The Big Easy

as

McCabe

The Great Santini

1979

The Great Santini

as

Mary Anne Meechum

The Sure Thing

1985

The Sure Thing

as

Mary Ann Webster

Coneheads

1993

Coneheads

as

Lisa Farber

American Pop

1981

American Pop

as

Bella (voice)

Dead Funny

1994

Dead Funny

as

Sarah

Shattered Vows

1984

Shattered Vows

as

Cathy

I Am Divine

2013

I Am Divine

as

Self

Perfect Assassins

1998

Perfect Assassins

as

Janice Franklin

Female Perversions

1997

Female Perversions

as

Margot

Pontiac Moon

1994

Pontiac Moon

as

Alicia Frank

Breathless

1983

Breathless

as

Salesgirl

Grilled

2006

Grilled

as

Sally Wilson

Peggy Sue Got Married

1986

Peggy Sue Got Married

as

Delores Dodge

The Cotton Club

1984

The Cotton Club

as

Frances Flegenheimer

Vital Signs

1990

Vital Signs

as

Bobby

The Last of the Finest

1990

The Last of the Finest

as

Harriet Gross

Goosed

1999

Goosed

as

The Psychic

The Dogwalker

2002

The Dogwalker

as

Allison

The Choice

1981

The Choice

as

Emmy Soames

My First Mister

2001

My First Mister

as

Sheila

Tumbleweeds

1999

Tumbleweeds

as

Diner Waitress

Crime Story: Pilot

1986

Crime Story: Pilot

as

Joanne Goldman

The Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone

as

(segment "The Once and Future King")

The X-Files

The X-Files

as

Laura Weinsider

The Antagonists

The Antagonists

as

Joanie Rutledge

Amazing Stories

Amazing Stories

as

Shirley Crater

Quantum Leap

Quantum Leap

as

Marion Keisker

Crime Story

Crime Story

as

Joanne Goldman

Invasion

Invasion

as

Disheveled Woman

Touched by an Angel

Touched by an Angel

as

Stasi Reynolds

Touched by an Angel

Touched by an Angel

as

Alison Spears

Grand

Grand

as

Jenny Seaton

Production

Crew

Directing