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 ...
Known For
Complete Filmography
I Am Divine
2014
as Self
Harris Glenn Milstead, aka Divine (1945-1988) was the ultimate outsider turned underground hero. Spitting in the face of the status quos of body image...
Grilled
2006
as Sally Wilson
Maurice and Dave sell high-end cuts of beef, but after hitting a patch of no sales, they're facing being fired. Maurice needs money to enroll in his f...
The Dogwalker
2002
as Allison
The L.A. dog walking scene provides a colorful backdrop for the story of Ellie Moore, damaged goods on the run from her latest abusive boyfriend and o...
My First Mister
2001
as Sheila
Leelee Sobieski is brash, abrasive and vulnerable as a teenage child of divorce who hides her pain behind a mask of hard-edged gothic rebellion. Alber...
An American Rhapsody
2001
as Pattie
A Hungarian family forced to flee the Communist country for the United States must leave a young daughter behind. Six years later, the family arranges...
Meat Loaf: To Hell and Back
2000
as Wilma Aday
"Meat Loaf" Aday is an overgrown Texas youngster, the son of a gentle woman dying of cancer and an alcoholic, abusive father. Tormented by his father ...
Tumbleweeds
1999
as Diner Waitress
Whenever trouble strikes in one of her relationships, single mother Mary Jo Walker and her daughter, Ava, pack up and move to another city, a routine ...
Goosed
1999
as The Psychic
Sheltered rich girl Charlene has an over-protective mother who insists that her daughter should marry a rich doctor. After Charlene's psychic predicts...
Perfect Assassins
1998
as Janice Franklin
When deadly terrorists strike, an FBI man, who is an expert on terrorist mentality, hunts their twisted "creator," who may be connected with a disgrac...
Where's Marlowe?
1998
After making a disastrous 3-hour documentary on New York City's water supply, two young filmmakers focus on the goings-on of life in the LA offices of...
Female Perversions
1997
as Margot
Eve Stephens, a beautiful and sexy high-powered attorney, is up for appointment as a judge. But below her veneer of self-confidence lies a darker side...
Destiny Turns on the Radio
1995
as Katrina
Johnny Destiny burns into Las Vegas in his hot Plymouth RoadRunner, stopping only to pick up a stranger stranded in the desert. But then, things aren'...
Pontiac Moon
1994
as Alicia Frank
An absent-minded-professor father and his son take off in an old Pontiac to bond during a symbolic road trip through the Western U.S. This while his w...
Dead Funny
1994
as Sarah
When her practical joker boyfriend dies, a young woman recalls all the pranks he pulled as she tries to figure out who murdered him.
Coneheads
1993
as Lisa Farber
A pair of aliens arrive on Earth to prepare for invasion, but crash instead. With enormous cone-shaped heads, robotlike walks and an appetite for toil...
Vital Signs
1990
as Bobby
As they enter their third year of medical school, a group of young students must prepare to decide what they intend to specialize in. Somehow, they mu...
The Last of the Finest
1990
as Harriet Gross
An elite group of vice cops are fired from the L.A.P.D. for being over-zealous in their war against drugs. It is immediately apparent that some of the...
When Harry Met Sally...
1989
as Alice
During their travel from Chicago to New York, Harry and Sally debate whether or not sex ruins a friendship between a man and a woman. Eleven years lat...
Great Balls of Fire!
1989
as Babe
The story of Jerry Lee Lewis, arguably the greatest and certainly one of the wildest musicians of the 1950s. His arrogance, remarkable talent, and unc...
Sharing Richard
1988
Three friends decide to date the same man.
The Big Easy
1986
as McCabe
Remy McSwain is a New Orleans police lieutenant who investigates the murder of a local mobster. His investigation leads him to suspect that fellow mem...
Peggy Sue Got Married
1986
as Delores Dodge
Peggy Sue faints at a high school reunion. When she wakes up she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school.
Crime Story: Pilot
1986
as Joanne Goldman
One former cop goes against the whole Mafia. The feature-length pilot for the cult 80s show.
The Sure Thing
1985
as Mary Ann Webster
Gib, a beer-guzzling slob, and Alison, an uptight Ivy-Leaguer, are an unlikely duo stuck together on a cross-country trip during Christmas break. At f...
The Cotton Club
1984
as Frances Flegenheimer
Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.
Shattered Vows
1984
as Cathy
At the age of 16 Mary becomes a nun. But she never gets used to the strict rules of her new life and when she falls in love with Father Tim, she wants...
Desperate Intruder
1983
as Linda
A blind woman living at a lonely beach house gives sanctuary to an escaped convict whose ruthless partner is on the way.
Breathless
1983
as Salesgirl
Jesse, a small-time criminal, high-tails it to Los Angeles to rendezvous with a French exchange student. Stealing a car and accidentally killing a hig...
American Pop
1981
as Bella (voice)
The history of American popular music runs parallel with the history of a Russian Jewish immigrant family, with each male descendant possessing differ...
The Choice
1981
as Emmy Soames
A young woman agonizes over whether or not to have an abortion and learns that her mother did the same 20 years prior.
The Great Santini
1979
as Mary Anne Meechum
As he approaches manhood, Ben Meechum struggles to win the approval of his demanding alpha male father, an aggressively competitive, but frustrated ma...
KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park
1978
as Dirty Dee
The tale of rock band KISS and their efforts to thwart a diabolical plan by mad scientist Abner Devereaux. Devereaux has found a way to clone humans i...
Elaine: A Story of Lost Love
1976
as Felicie
Adapted from an obscure Guy de Maupassant novella, lifted from a paperback bought by Meaney as an undergrad for 99 cents. What’s evident is Horn’s fas...