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