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Lisa Jane Persky

ActorBorn May 5, 1955 (69 years)
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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Movies & Shows on Plex

  • The Cotton Club
  • The Big Easy
  • Goosed

Known For

  • When Harry Met Sally...
  • Peggy Sue Got Married
  • The Sure Thing
  • The Big Easy
  • American Pop
  • The Great Santini
  • Breathless
  • Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park
  • Pontiac Moon
  • Vital Signs
  • Meat Loaf: To Hell and Back
  • Private Eye
  • Perfect Assassins
  • Dead Funny

Filmography

2006
Grilled · as Sally Wilson
2005
Invasion (TV Series) · as Disheveled Woman
2005
Twins (2005) (TV Series) · as Marcy
2002
The Dogwalker · as Allison
2001
2001
My First Mister · as Sheila
2001
The Division (TV Series) · as Ann Fenwick
2000
1999
Tumbleweeds · as Diner Waitress
1999
Goosed · as The Psychic
1998
Perfect Assassins · as Janice Franklin
1998
1997
The Practice (TV Series) · as Karen Garvey
1997
King of the Hill (TV Series) · as (voice)
1996
Female Perversions · as Margot
1996
The Pretender (US) (TV Series) · as Lamont
1995
1995
The Marshal (TV Series) · as Felton
1994
Pontiac Moon · as Alicia Frank
1994
Touched by an Angel (TV Series) · as Alison Spears
1994
Dead Funny · as Sarah
1993
NYPD Blue (TV Series) · as Jessica Applebaum
1993
The X-Files (TV Series) · as Laura Weinsider
1993
Coneheads · as Lisa Farber
1992
Mann & Machine (TV Series) · as Mikey Quinn
1990
Vital Signs · as Bobby
1990
The Last of the Finest · as Harriet Gross
1990
Grand (TV Series) · as Jenny Seaton
1989
1989
1989
Quantum Leap (TV Series) · as Marion Keisker
1988
Murphy Brown (TV Series) · as Jane
1987
Thirtysomething (TV Series) · as Sharon Berman
1987
Private Eye (TV Series)
1987
Duet (TV Series) · as Mary-Margaret
1986
1986
Peggy Sue Got Married · as Delores Dodge
1986
Designing Women (TV Series)
1986
Crime Story (TV Series) · as Joanne Goldman
1986
It's Garry Shandling's Show (TV Series) · as Kitty
1985
Amazing Stories (1985) (TV Series) · as Shirley Crater
1985
The Twilight Zone (1985) (TV Series) · as (segment "the Once And Future King")
1985
The Golden Girls (TV Series) · as Kate
1985
The Sure Thing · as Mary Ann Webster
1984
The Cotton Club · as Frances Flegenheimer
1984
Shattered Vows · as Cathy
1984
E/R (1984) (TV Series) · as Girl
1983
Breathless · as Salesgirl
1981
American Pop · as Bella (voice)
1979
The Great Santini · as Mary Anne Meechum
1979
Shirley (TV Series) · as Cast
1979
Trapper John, M.D. (TV Series) · as Sally
1978
1977
The Incredible Hulk (TV Series) · as Rita
1977
The Fitzpatricks (TV Series)
1976
Quincy, M.E. (TV Series) · as Penny Stone
1972
The ABC Afterschool Special (TV Series) · as Joe Dayton

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