Lisa Pelikan

Known for ActingBorn 1954-07-12 (age 72)San Francisco, California, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lisa Pelikan (born July 12, 1954) is an American stage, film and television actress. She was born in Berkley, California, the daughter of American parents Helen L., a psychologist, and Robert G. Pelikan, an international economist who served as the minister-counselor from the United States at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris. She attended the Juilliard School with a full scholarship to its drama division. Pelikan is primarily a stage actor and director, but is also known to film audiences for her film debut as the younger version of Vanessa Redgrave's title character in Julia (1977) (for which Redgrave won an Oscar), and her role as the widowed mother Sarah Hargrave in the film sequel Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991). Pelikan's first regular Television work was as maid Kate Mahaffey on the CBS soap opera Beacon Hill. Other high points in her career include her performances as the lusty Lucy Scanlon in the Television miniseries Studs Lonigan (1979), and the title character of the horror film Jennifer (1978). She also won a Drama-Logue Award for her one-woman play about Zelda Fitzgerald entitled "Only a Broken String of Pearls". She was married to fellow actor Bruce Davison, with whom she has one son, Ethan. She and Davison are divorced. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lisa Pelikan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

For the People

The Country Girl

Studs Lonigan

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Jack's Place

The Last Convertible

Brooklyn Bridge

Strong Medicine

Happy Days

Murder, She Wrote

The Guardian

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

The Equalizer

Kojak

I Want to Keep My Baby!

Cagney & Lacey

Valley Forge

Hotel

Blacke's Magic

James at 16

Lionheart

Sacrifices of the Heart

Julia

It's My Party

Circle

Return to the Blue Lagoon

Jennifer

True Grit: A Further Adventure

Into the Badlands

The Best Little Girl in the World

Swing Shift

L'Homme en colère

A Bunny's Tale

Color of Justice

The Blue Hotel

Shadow of Doubt

Ghoulies

Perfect Gentlemen

Off Season

The Women's Room

10,000 Days

The House of God