Lisa Jane Persky
Date of birth: 1955-05-05
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Lisa 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.
Movie Credits
The Big Easy
1986-11-27
Remy McSwain is a New Orleans police lieutenant who investigates the murder of a local mobster. His
The Great Santini
1979-10-26
As he approaches manhood, Ben Meechum struggles to win the approval of his demanding alpha male fath
The Sure Thing
1985-03-01
Gib, a beer-guzzling slob, and Alison, an uptight Ivy-Leaguer, are an unlikely duo stuck together on
Coneheads
1993-07-23
A pair of aliens arrive on Earth to prepare for invasion, but crash instead. With enormous cone-shap
American Pop
1981-02-13
The history of American popular music runs parallel with the history of a Russian Jewish immigrant f
Meat Loaf: To Hell and Back
2000-01-05
"Meat Loaf" Aday is an overgrown Texas youngster, the son of a gentle woman dying of cancer and an a
Dead Funny
1994-05-21
When her practical joker boyfriend dies, a young woman recalls all the pranks he pulled as she tries
Shattered Vows
1984-10-28
At the age of 16 Mary becomes a nun. But she never gets used to the strict rules of her new life and
I Am Divine
2014-03-26
Harris Glenn Milstead, aka Divine (1945-1988) was the ultimate outsider turned underground hero. Spi
Perfect Assassins
1998-11-13
When deadly terrorists strike, an FBI man, who is an expert on terrorist mentality, hunts their twis
Female Perversions
1997-04-25
Eve Stephens, a beautiful and sexy high-powered attorney, is up for appointment as a judge. But belo
When Harry Met Sally...
1989-07-12
Sex always gets in the way of friendships between men and women. At least, that's what Harry Burns b
Pontiac Moon
1994-11-03
An absent-minded-professor father and his son take off in an old Pontiac to bond during a symbolic r
Breathless
1983-05-13
Jesse, a small-time criminal, high-tails it to Los Angeles to rendezvous with a French exchange stud
Grilled
2006-07-11
Maurice and Dave sell high-end cuts of beef, but after hitting a patch of no sales, they're facing b
Peggy Sue Got Married
1986-10-10
At her 25th high school reunion, Peggy Sue faints and awakens in 1960—back in her senior year, befor
The Cotton Club
1984-12-14
Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of en
Vital Signs
1990-04-13
As they enter their third year of medical school, a group of young students must prepare to decide w
An American Rhapsody
2001-06-22
A Hungarian family forced to flee the Communist country for the United States must leave a young dau
Desperate Intruder
1983-07-31
A blind woman living at a lonely beach house gives sanctuary to an escaped convict whose ruthless pa
Great Balls of Fire!
1989-06-30
The story of Jerry Lee Lewis, arguably the greatest and certainly one of the wildest musicians of th
The Last of the Finest
1990-03-09
An elite group of vice cops are fired from the L.A.P.D. for being over-zealous in their war against
Where's Marlowe?
1998-10-01
After making a disastrous 3-hour documentary on New York City's water supply, two young filmmakers f
Destiny Turns on the Radio
1995-04-28
Johnny Destiny burns into Las Vegas in his hot Plymouth RoadRunner, stopping only to pick up a stran
Goosed
1999-09-28
Sheltered rich girl Charlene has an over-protective mother who insists that her daughter should marr
Elaine: A Story of Lost Love
1976-01-01
Adapted from an obscure Guy de Maupassant novella, lifted from a paperback bought by Meaney as an un
The Dogwalker
2002-03-03
The L.A. dog walking scene provides a colorful backdrop for the story of Ellie Moore, damaged goods
The Choice
1981-02-10
A young woman agonizes over whether or not to have an abortion and learns that her mother did the sa
My First Mister
2001-10-12
Leelee Sobieski is brash, abrasive and vulnerable as a teenage child of divorce who hides her pain b
Sharing Richard
1988-04-26
Three friends decide to date the same man.
KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park
1978-10-28
The tale of rock band KISS and their efforts to thwart a diabolical plan by mad scientist Abner Deve
Tumbleweeds
1999-11-24
Whenever trouble strikes in one of her relationships, single mother Mary Jo Walker and her daughter,
Crime Story: Pilot
1986-09-18
One former cop goes against the whole Mafia. The feature-length pilot for the cult 80s show.