Lisa Pelikan
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 12, 1954 (age 72)
- Birthplace
- San Francisco, California, USA
Biography
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.
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Filmography
Circle
Movie · as Cancer Survivor
10,000 Days
Movie · as Anna Hesse
Sacrifices of the Heart
Movie · as Virginia Doyle
For the People
TV · as Amanda Jacobs · 1 ep
Off Season
Movie · as Ashley Manson
The Guardian
TV · as Carol Ritter · 1 ep
Strong Medicine
TV · as Babs Darner · 1 ep
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV · as Dr. Elizabeth Garrison · 1 ep
Shadow of Doubt
Movie · as Leslie Saxon
Color of Justice
Movie · as Betty
It's My Party
Movie · as Party Guest (uncredited)
Jack's Place
TV · 1 ep
Return to the Blue Lagoon
Movie · as Sarah Hargrave
Into the Badlands
Movie · as Sarah Carstairs
Brooklyn Bridge
TV · 1 ep
Lionheart
Movie · as Hélène Gaultier
Blacke's Magic
TV · 1 ep
A Bunny's Tale
Movie · as Lee
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV · as Nurse Ellen Hatch · 1 ep
The Equalizer
TV · as Anne Fitzgerald / Diane Snyder · 1 ep
Ghoulies
Movie · as Rebecca
The House of God
Movie · as Jo Miller
Swing Shift
Movie · as Violet Mulligan
Murder, She Wrote
TV · as Jill Goddard, Allison Franklin · 1 ep
Hotel
TV · 1 ep
Cagney & Lacey
TV · 1 ep
The Best Little Girl in the World
Movie · as Gail Powell
The Women's Room
Movie · as Kyla
Jig-Saw
Movie · as Anne
Studs Lonigan
TV · as Lucy Scanlon · 3 eps
The Last Convertible
TV · as Rosamond Ardley · 3 eps
Jennifer
Movie · as Jennifer Baylor
Perfect Gentlemen
Movie · as Annie Cavagarno
True Grit: A Further Adventure
Movie · as Mattie Ross
Julia
Movie · as Young Julia
The Blue Hotel
Movie · as Younger Daughter
James at 16
TV · as Paisley · 1 ep
I Want to Keep My Baby!
Movie · as Miranda
Valley Forge
Movie · as Tavis
The Country Girl
Movie · as Nancy
Happy Days
TV · 1 ep
Kojak
TV · as Jennifer Campbell · 1 ep
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV · as Nancy, Tavis · 1 ep