Lisa Jane Persky

Lisa Jane Persky

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.

  • Title: Lisa Jane Persky
  • Popularity: 6.232
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1955-05-05
  • Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
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  • Also Known As: Lisa Persky
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Lisa Jane Persky Movies

  • 1986
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    The Big Easy
    The Big Easy

    6.2 1986 HD

    Remy McSwain is a New Orleans police lieutenant who investigates the murder of a local mobster. His investigation leads him to suspect that fellow...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Dennis Quaid

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  • 1979
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    The Great Santini
    The Great Santini

    6.746 1979 HD

    As he approaches manhood, Ben Meechum struggles to win the approval of his demanding alpha male father, an aggressively competitive, but frustrated...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Robert Duvall

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  • 1985
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    The Sure Thing
    The Sure Thing

    6.509 1985 HD

    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...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: John Cusack

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  • 1993
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    Coneheads
    Coneheads

    5.359 1993 HD

    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...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Dan Aykroyd

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  • 1981
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    American Pop
    American Pop

    6.8 1981 HD

    The history of American popular music runs parallel with the history of a Russian Jewish immigrant family, with each male descendant possessing...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Ron Thompson

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  • 2000
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    Meat Loaf: To Hell and Back
    Meat Loaf: To Hell and Back

    7.9 2000 HD

    "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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: W. Earl Brown

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  • 2013
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    I Am Divine
    I Am Divine

    7.4 2013 HD

    Harris Glenn Milstead, aka Divine (1945-1988) was the ultimate outsider turned underground hero. Spitting in the face of the status quos of body...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Divine

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  • 1994
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    Pontiac Moon
    Pontiac Moon

    5.1 1994 HD

    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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Ted Danson

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  • 1989
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    When Harry Met Sally...
    When Harry Met Sally...

    7.4 1989 HD

    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...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Meg Ryan

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  • 1983
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    Breathless
    Breathless

    5.863 1983 HD

    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...

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Richard Gere

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  • 2006
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    Grilled
    Grilled

    4.963 2006 HD

    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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Ray Romano

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  • 1986
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    Peggy Sue Got Married
    Peggy Sue Got Married

    6.1 1986 HD

    Peggy Sue faints at a high school reunion. When she wakes up she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Kathleen Turner

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  • 1984
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    The Cotton Club
    The Cotton Club

    6.531 1984 HD

    Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Richard Gere

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  • 1990
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    Vital Signs
    Vital Signs

    4.9 1990 HD

    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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Adrian Pasdar

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  • 2001
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    An American Rhapsody
    An American Rhapsody

    6.202 2001 HD

    A Hungarian family forced to flee the Communist country for the United States must leave a young daughter behind. Six years later, the family...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Scarlett Johansson

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  • 1983
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    Desperate Intruder
    Desperate Intruder

    5 1983 HD

    A blind woman living at a lonely beach house gives sanctuary to an escaped convict whose ruthless partner is on the way.

    Genre: Thriller

    Cast: Meg Foster

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  • 1989
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    Great Balls of Fire!
    Great Balls of Fire!

    6.277 1989 HD

    The story of Jerry Lee Lewis, arguably the greatest and certainly one of the wildest musicians of the 1950s. His arrogance, remarkable talent, and...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Dennis Quaid

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  • 1990
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    The Last of the Finest
    The Last of the Finest

    5.891 1990 HD

    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...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Brian Dennehy

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  • 1998
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    Where's Marlowe?
    Where's Marlowe?

    5.667 1998 HD

    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...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Miguel Ferrer

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  • 1995
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    Destiny Turns on the Radio
    Destiny Turns on the Radio

    5.3 1995 HD

    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...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Dylan McDermott

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  • 1999
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    Goosed
    Goosed

    3.6 1999 HD

    Sheltered rich girl Charlene has an over-protective mother who insists that her daughter should marry a rich doctor. After Charlene's psychic...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Jennifer Tilly

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  • 1976
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    Elaine: A Story of Lost Love
    Elaine: A Story of Lost Love

    1 1976 HD

    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...

    Genre:

    Cast: Adam Macadam

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  • 2002
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    The Dogwalker
    The Dogwalker

    2 2002 HD

    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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Diane Gaidry

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  • 1981
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    The Choice
    The Choice

    1 1981 HD

    A young woman agonizes over whether or not to have an abortion and learns that her mother did the same 20 years prior.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Susan Clark

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  • 2001
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    My First Mister
    My First Mister

    6.6 2001 HD

    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....

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Albert Brooks

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  • 1988
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    Sharing Richard
    Sharing Richard

    1 1988 HD

    Three friends decide to date the same man.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Ed Marinaro

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  • 1979
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    KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park
    KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park

    5.4 1979 HD

    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...

    Genre: Music

    Cast: Peter Criss

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  • 1999
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    Tumbleweeds
    Tumbleweeds

    6.488 1999 HD

    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...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Janet McTeer

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  • 1984
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    Shattered Vows
    Shattered Vows

    3.8 1984 HD

    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...

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Valerie Bertinelli

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  • 1998
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    Perfect Assassins
    Perfect Assassins

    5.8 1998 HD

    When deadly terrorists strike, an FBI man, who is an expert on terrorist mentality, hunts their twisted "creator," who may be connected with a...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Andrew McCarthy

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  • 1996
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    Female Perversions
    Female Perversions

    5 1996 HD

    An ambitious female attorney wallows in excess and meaningless sex with both male and female partners, while dealing with her personal life problems...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Tilda Swinton

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  • 1994
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    Dead Funny
    Dead Funny

    5 1994 HD

    When her practical joker boyfriend dies, a young woman recalls all the pranks he pulled as she tries to figure out who murdered him.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Elizabeth Peña

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  • 2018
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    The X-Files
    The X-Files

    8.386 2018 HD

    The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena....

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: David Duchovny

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  • 1989
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    The Twilight Zone
    The Twilight Zone

    7.736 1989 HD

    This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells a tale (sometimes two...

    Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    Cast: Robin Ward

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  • 1991
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    The Antagonists
    The Antagonists

    1 1991 HD

    The Antagonists is an American legal drama television series that aired from March 26 until May 30, 1991.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: David Andrews

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  • 1988
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    Private Eye
    Private Eye

    4.2 1988 HD

    Private Eye is an American crime drama that aired from September 13, 1987 until January 8, 1988.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: William Sadler

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  • 1992
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    The Golden Girls
    The Golden Girls

    7.511 1992 HD

    Four Southern Florida seniors share a house, their dreams, and a whole lot of cheesecake. Bright, promiscuous, clueless and hilarious, these lovely,...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Bea Arthur

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  • 1990
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    Grand
    Grand

    5.5 1990 HD

    In the piano-making town of Grand, Pennsylvania, Janice Pasetti keeps house for factory owner Harris Weldon, his newlywed niece and her husband,...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Pamela Reed

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  • 1993
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    Designing Women
    Designing Women

    6.577 1993 HD

    Julia Sugarbaker, Mary Jo Shively, Charlene Frazier-Stillfield and Suzanne Sugarbaker are associates at their design firm, Sugarbaker and Associates....

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Dixie Carter

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  • 1987
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    Amazing Stories
    Amazing Stories

    7.425 1987 HD

    A truly amazing, fantastical, science fiction, funny and odd, and sometimes scary, sad and endearing anthology series presented by Steven Spielberg...

    Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    Cast:

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  • 1993
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    Quantum Leap
    Quantum Leap

    8.049 1993 HD

    Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to...

    Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    Cast: Scott Bakula

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  • 1988
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    Crime Story
    Crime Story

    8 1988 HD

    The hard-boiled saga of hair-trigger cop Lieutenant Mike Torello and his obsessive pursuit of ruthless gangster Ray Luca.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Dennis Farina

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  • 2009
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    King of the Hill
    King of the Hill

    7.317 2009 HD

    Set in Texas, this animated series follows the life of propane salesman Hank Hill, who lives with his overly confident substitute Spanish teacher...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Mike Judge

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  • 1992
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    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    7.4 1992 HD

    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally...

    Genre: Talk

    Cast: Johnny Carson

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  • 1978
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    The Fitzpatricks
    The Fitzpatricks

    5 1978 HD

    The Fitzpatricks is an American drama series which ran on CBS during the 1977–78 season. The series aired from September 5th, 1977 to January...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Bert Kramer

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  • 2006
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    Invasion
    Invasion

    7.087 2006 HD

    In the aftermath of a hurricane the Florida Park Ranger and his family deal with strange occurrences, including luminescent creatures in the water....

    Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    Cast: Eddie Cibrian

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