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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....
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Filmography

The Ankh Murders - ( / / Announced / )
The Wetonkawa Flash - ( / 2002 / Lensing/Awaiting Release / )
Grilled - ( Sally / 2006 / Released / )
The Dogwalker - ( Alyson / 2006 / Released / )
American Rhapsody - ( / 2001 / Released / )
My First Mister - ( Sheila / 2001 / Released / )
Tumbleweeds - ( Diner Waitress / 1999 / Released / )
Female Perversions - ( Margot Fuchs / 1997 / Released / )
Dead Funny - ( Sarah / 1995 / Released / Astral Bellevue Pathe Ltd )
Destiny Turns on the Radio - ( Katrina / 1995 / Released / )
Pontiac Moon - ( Alicia Frook / 1994 / Released / )
Coneheads - ( Lisa Farber / 1993 / Released / )
The Last of the Finest - ( Harriet Gross / 1990 / Released / Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) )
Vital Signs - ( Bobby / 1990 / Released / )
Great Balls of Fire - ( Babe / 1989 / Released / Orion Pictures )
When Harry Met Sally... - ( Alice / 1989 / Released / Hoyts Distribution )
The Big Easy - ( McCabe / 1987 / Released / Kings Road Productions )
Peggy Sue Got Married - ( Delores Dodge / 1986 / Released / )
The Sure Thing - ( Mary Ann Webster / 1985 / Released / )
The Cotton Club - ( Frances Flegenheimer / 1984 / Released / K-Tel Video )
Breathless - ( Salesgirl / 1983 / Released / )
American Pop - ( Bella / 1981 / Released / )
Attack of the Phantoms - ( Dirty Dee / 1980 / Released / )
Love in a Taxi - ( Marian / 1980 / Released / )
The Great Santini - ( Mary Anne Meechum / 1979 / Released / )

TV Credits
Invasion ( 2005 / Released ): Actor
Twins ( 2005 / Released ): Actor
Goosed ( 2000 / Released ): Actor
Meat Loaf: To Hell and Back ( 2000 / Released ): Actor
Perfect Assassins ( 1998 / Released ): Actor
King of the Hill ( 1997 / Released ): Voice
The Practice ( 1997 / Released ): Actor
The X-Files ( 1997 / Released ): Actor
The Rosie O'Donnell Show ( 1996 / Released ): Producer
NYPD Blue ( 1993 / Released ): Actor
The Antagonists ( 1991 / Released ): Actor
Just Temporary ( 1989 / Released ): Actor
Sharing Richard ( 1988 / Released ): Actor
Private Eye ( 1987 / Released ): Actor
Crime Story ( 1986 / Released ): Actor
Designing Women ( 1986 / Released ): Actor
Taking It Home ( 1986 / Released ): Actor
Back Together ( 1984 / Released ): Actor
Shattered Vows ( 1984 / Released ): Actor
Desperate Intruder ( 1983 / Released ): Actor
A Matter of Time ( 1981 / Released ): Actor
The Choice ( 1981 / Released ): Actor
KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park ( 1978 / Released ): Actor
Murphy Brown ( Released ): Actor
Quantum Leap ( Released ): Actor
The Marshal ( Released ): Actor
The Pretender ( Released ): Actor
Touched By an Angel ( Released ): Actor

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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.

Profession(s):
Actor
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1995 Co-starred in "Destiny Turns on the Radio" and "Dead Funny"
1987 Played secretary, "Private Eye" series (NBC)
1979 Made auspicious feature film debut as Mary Ann Meechum in "The Great Santini"
1978 Appeared in NBC TV movie "KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park"
Made New York stage debut in "Grandmother Is in the Strawberry Patch"; Also appeared in "Women Behind Bars"

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