Lisa Jane Persky Biography
Lisa Jane Persky is an American actress, journalist, artist, author and photographer well known for her supporting roles in the films The Great Santini in 1979 and Peggy Sue Got Married in 1986 and her work in the late 1970s as a writer and photojournalist for New York Rocker magazine.
Lisa Jane Persky Age
Lisa Jane Persky was bornb on May 5, 1955 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. She is 64 years old as of 2019.
Lisa Jane Persky Height
Persky stands at a height of 1.88 m
Lisa Jane Persky Husband
Persky married Andy Zax on January 19, 2008. Andy is a music historian and former co-star of the Comedy Central game show Beat the Geeks.
Lisa Jane Persky Net Worth
Persky has an estimated net worth of $1 million U.S dollars. Her acting, writing are the primary sources of her income. She is known for he character on Peggy Sue Got Married in 1986.
Lisa Jane Persky Family | Parents
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Persky is a daughter to Jane Holley (née Wilson) and Mort Persky. After her parents’ divorce, her father married Judith Rossner (Looking for Mr. Goodbar, novelist) and her mother married classical violinist Vladimir Weisman. Persky grew up in New York City’s Greenwich Village at 87 Christopher Street, a building known for notable tenants likeH.M. Koutoukas and Yoko Ono. She went to P.S. 41 for elementary school then the High School of Art and Design, where she studied graphic design.
Lisa Jane Persky Acting
Immediately after she graduated from high school, her neighbor Koutoukas, a playwright, told her that he had written a play for her. He cast Persky, with the salary of $25 per week, as “Cordelia Wells, The World’s Most Perfect Teenager” in Grandmother Is in the Strawberry Patch. The play was produced at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, and was the first of several collaborations between Persky and Koutoukas. Persky performed as Mary-Eleanor in the 1976, Tom Eyen’s Women Behind Bars, directed by Ron Link and starring Divine.
Persky has since appeared in many plays, including Broadway’s Steaming and has received critical acclaim for her stage performances in Los Angeles. She received the Drama-Logue and LA Weekly Theater awards (for Best Actress) for Mayo Simon’s These Men, in which she starred at the Los Angeles Actors Theatre Company and for Hearts on Fire at the Odyssey. She also received a Drama Critics Circle award nomination (for Outstanding Performance) for These Men.
In 1979, Persky’s got her breakout performance as a film actress playing the role of Robert Duvall’s daughter in The Great Santini. Persky has acted in over two dozen films, including American Pop, The Cotton Club, Peggy Sue Got Married, The Big Easy, When Harry Met Sally… and Coneheads. In her role as Katrina in Destiny Turns on the Radio (1995), she gave actor/director Quentin Tarantino his first on-screen kiss. She appeared as herself in 2013 on I Am Divine, Jeffrey Schwarz’s documentary about the actor Divine.
Her television work has included a recurring role on Private Eye and also appearances on NYPD Blue, The X-Files, King of the Hill, E/R, The Golden Girls, and dozens more. Persky has appeared in made-for-TV movies such as Meat Loaf: To Hell and Back and KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park.
Lisa Jane Persky Writting
An early participant in the CBGB music scene, Persky was a founding staff member at New York Rocker magazine During that era, she documented the burgeoning punk and new wave movement as a writer and a photojournalist. Persky revisited the era on the “New York Rockers” panel at the 2012 EMP Pop Conference.
As a journalist, Persky work has appeared in publications including Fortean Times and LA Weekly. In 2010, she became a founding editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books, where she was also art director. Persky left the publication in December 2012.
Persky’s fiction has appeared, among other places, in the magazines BOMB and Eclectica (where, billed as Eljay Persky, she was one of 30 writers selected to be anthologized in its Eclectica: Best Fiction Vol. 1 collection).
Lisa Jane Persky Movies
- 1979 The Great Santini, Mary Anne Meechum
- 1980 Love in a Taxi, Marian
- 1981 American Pop, Bella
- 1983 Breathless, Salesgirl
- 1984 The Cotton Club, Frances Flegenheimer
- 1985 The Sure Thing, Mary Ann Webster
- 1986 Peggy Sue Got Married, Delores Dodge
- 1987 The Big Easy, McCabe
- 1989 Great Balls of Fire!, Babe
- 1989 When Harry Met Sally…, Alice
- 1990 In the Best Interest of the Children, Gwen Hatcher
- 1990 The Last of the Finest, Harriet Gross
- 1990 Vital Signs, Bobby
- 1993 Coneheads, Lisa Farber
- 1994 Dead Funny, Sarah
- 1994 Pontiac Moon, Alicia Frank
- 1995 Destiny Turns on the Radio, Katrina
- 1996 Female Perversions, Margot
- 1998 Where’s Marlowe?, Jenny
- 1999 Tumbleweeds, Diner Waitress
- 1999 The Wetonkawa Flash
- 1999 Goosed, The Psychic
- 2001 My First Mister, Sheila
- 2001 An American Rhapsody, Pattie
- 2002 The Dogwalker, Allison
- 2006 Grilled, Sally Wilson
- 2013 I Am Divine herself
Lisa Jane Persky TV Shows
- 1977 The Fitzpatricks
- 1978 NBC Special Treat, Cindy
- 1978 KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park, Dirty Dee
- 1980 Shirley
- 1981 ABC Afterschool Specials, Jo Dayton
- 1981 The Choice Emmy Soames
- 1981 Quincy M.E., Penny Stone
- 1982 The Incredible Hulk, Rita
- 1982 Open All Night, Laurie
- 1982 Trapper John, M.D., Sally
- 1983 Desperate Intruder Linda
- 1984 E/R
- 1984 Shattered Vows Sister Cathy
- 1985 The Golden Girls, Kate Zbornak
- 1985 Amazing Stories, Shirley
- 1985 New Love, American Style
- 1986 Crime Story, Joanne Goldman
- 1986 The Twilight Zone, Sandra
- 1987 Private Eye, Dottie
- 1988 Private Eye, Dottie
- 1988 Sharing Richard Roberta
- 1988 thirtysomething, Sharon Berman
- 1989 It’s Garry Shandling’s Show, Kitty
- 1990 Grand, Jenny
- 1991 The Antagonists, Joanie Rutledge
- 1992 Designing Women, Heather McPhaul
- 1992 Mann & Machine
- 1993 Murphy Brown, Jane
- 1994 Quantum Leap, Marion
- 1995 The Marshal, Felton Voorhees
- 1995 Touched by an Angel, Alison
- 1997 The Pretender, Lamont
- 1998 Perfect Assassins Janice Franklin
- 1999 The X-Files, Laura Weinsider
- 1999 King of the Hill, Actress (voice)
- 1999 Touched by an Angel, Stasi
- 2000 Meat Loaf: To Hell and Back, Wilma Aday
- 2002 The Practice, Karen Garvey
- 2002 The Division, Ann Fenwick
- 2004 NYPD Blue, Jessica Applebaum
- 2005 Invasion, Disheveled Woman
- 2005 Twins, Marcy