Name
Lisa Jane Persky
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1955-05-05 (71 years old)
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
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.
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- 1986 The Big Easy as McCabe
- 1979 The Great Santini as Mary Anne Meechum
- 1985 The Sure Thing as Mary Ann Webster
- 1993 Coneheads as Lisa Farber
- 1981 American Pop as Bella (voice)
- 2000 Meat Loaf: To Hell and Back as Wilma Aday
- 1994 Dead Funny as Sarah
- 1984 Shattered Vows as Cathy
- 2014 I Am Divine as Self
- 1998 Perfect Assassins as Janice Franklin
- 1996 Female Perversions as Margot
- 1989 When Harry Met Sally... as Alice
- 1994 Pontiac Moon as Alicia Frank
- 1983 Breathless as Salesgirl
- 2006 Grilled as Sally Wilson
- 1986 Peggy Sue Got Married as Delores Dodge
- 1984 The Cotton Club as Frances Flegenheimer
- 1990 Vital Signs as Bobby
- 2001 An American Rhapsody as Pattie
- 1983 Desperate Intruder as Linda
- 1989 Great Balls of Fire! as Babe
- 1990 The Last of the Finest as Harriet Gross
- 1998 Where's Marlowe?
- 1995 Destiny Turns on the Radio as Katrina
- 1999 Goosed as The Psychic
- 1976 Elaine: A Story of Lost Love as Felicie
- 2002 The Dogwalker as Allison
- 1981 The Choice as Emmy Soames
- 2001 My First Mister as Sheila
- 1988 Sharing Richard
- 1978 KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park as Dirty Dee
- 1999 Tumbleweeds as Diner Waitress
- 1986 Crime Story: Pilot as Joanne Goldman
- 1985 The Twilight Zone ( 1 episode ) as (segment "The Once and Future King")
- 1993 The X-Files ( 1 episode ) as Laura Weinsider
- 1991 The Antagonists ( 9 episodes ) as Joanie Rutledge
- 1987 Private Eye ( 12 episodes )
- 1985 Amazing Stories ( 1 episode ) as Shirley Crater
- 1962 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1989 Quantum Leap ( 1 episode ) as Marion Keisker
- 1977 The Fitzpatricks ( 1 episode )
- 1986 Crime Story ( 2 episodes ) as Joanne Goldman
- 1997 King of the Hill ( 1 episode ) as (voice)
- 2005 Invasion ( 1 episode ) as Disheveled Woman
- 1985 The Golden Girls ( 1 episode ) as Kate
- 1994 Touched by an Angel ( 1 episode ) as Stasi Reynolds
- 1994 Touched by an Angel ( 1 episode ) as Alison Spears
- 1990 Grand ( 1 episode ) as Jenny Seaton
- 1986 Designing Women ( 1 episode )
- 2001 The Division ( 1 episode ) as Ann Fenwick
- 1997 The Practice ( 1 episode ) as Karen Garvey
- 2005 Twins ( 1 episode ) as Marcy
