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Lisa Jane Persky
Highest Rated: 95% The Great Santini (1979)
Lowest Rated: 16% Destiny Turns On the Radio (1995)
Birthday: May 5, 1955
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
Pliable second lead and supporting player of numerous films and TV programs since 1979, Lisa Jane Persky made an auspicious debut as Mary Ann Meechum, the rebellious, oft-cynical eldest daughter of Robert Duvall in "The Great Santini" in 1979, but few of her subsequent roles have been as "showy." Persky's stage credits Off Broadway began with work at the famed La Mama Experimental Theatre Company in "Grandmother Is in the Strawberry Patch," and at the Truck & Warehouse Theatre in the campy production of "Women Behind Bars," an ensemble piece which also included Divine in drag amongst its cast. Persky has won critical acclaim in Los Angeles for many stage performances, as well as the Drama-Logue and L.A. Weekly awards for best actress for "These Men," which she starred in at LAATC (Los Angeles Actors Theatre Company), and for "Hearts on Fire" at the Odyssey. However, she is best known to a wider audience for "The Great Santini," as well as for other films such as "The Sure Thing" (1985), in which Persky and Tim Robbins were teamed as the couple determined to drive John Cusack nuts by singing every show tune possible as they drive cross country. More recently, she was a nervous medical student in the ensemble "Vital Signs" (1990), added her deadpan to the laughs in "Dead Funny" (1995). Persky has made numerous TV guest appearances and appeared in TV movies. She was Dirty Dee in the NBC TV movie, "KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park," which starred the then red hot rock group and aired in 1978, and in 1987 played the gum-cracking secretary Dottie Dworski on the short-lived "Private Eye" comedy series.
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Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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54% |
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The Dogwalker | Allison (Character) | $3.7K | 2002 |
56% |
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An American Rhapsody | Pattie (Character) | $850.0K | 2001 |
53% |
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My First Mister | Sheila (Character) | $621.4K | 2001 |
71% |
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Female Perversions | Margot (Character) | $884.0K | 1996 |
16% |
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Destiny Turns On the Radio | Katrina (Character) | $1.1M | 1995 |
No Score Yet |
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Dead Funny | Sarah (Character) | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet |
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Pontiac Moon | Alicia Frank (Character) | $10.4K | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Amazing Stories: The Movie VI | Unknown (Character) | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Antagonists | Joanie Rutledge (Character) | - | 1991 |
No Score Yet |
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The Last of the Finest | Harriet Gross (Character) | $991.3K | 1990 |
89% |
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When Harry Met Sally... | Alice (Character) | $90.4M | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Neon Payback | Dottie Dworski (Character) | - | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Private Eye | Dottie (Character) | - | 1987 |
89% |
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The Big Easy | McCabe (Character) | $15.5M | 1986 |
87% |
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Peggy Sue Got Married | Delores Dodge (Character) | $37.7M | 1986 |
86% |
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The Sure Thing | Mary Ann Webster (Character) | - | 1985 |
74% |
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The Cotton Club | Frances Flegenheimer (Character) | - | 1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shattered Vows | Cathy (Character) | - | 1984 |
63% |
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Breathless | Salesgirl (Character) | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Desperate Intruder | Linda (Character) | - | 1983 |
65% |
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American Pop | Bella (Voice) | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Love in a Taxi | Marian (Character) | - | 1980 |
95% |
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The Great Santini | Mary Anne Meechum (Character) | - | 1979 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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80% | 80% | Invasion | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2005 |
83% | 93% | NYPD Blue | Jessica Applebaum (Guest Star) | 2004 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Practice | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2002 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Touched by an Angel | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1995 1999 |
No Score Yet | 71% | King of the Hill | Unknown (Guest Voice) | 1999 |
74% | 85% | The X-Files | Laura Weinsider (Guest Star) | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Marshal | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1995 |
No Score Yet | 90% | Quantum Leap | Marion Keisker (Guest Star) | 1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Designing Women | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1992 |
83% | No Score Yet | thirtysomething | Sharon Berman (Guest Star) | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Private Eye | Dottie (Character) | 1987-1988 |
No Score Yet | 82% | Amazing Stories | Unknown (Character) | 1985 |
No Score Yet | 94% | The Golden Girls | Kate Zbornak (Guest Star) | 1985 |
68% | No Score Yet | E/R | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1984 |
No Score Yet | 76% | Incredible Hulk | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trapper John, M.D. | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1982 |