Lisa Pelikan
Birthday: Born in 1954-07-12 in San Francisco, California, USA
Deathday: Alive
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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Murder, She Wrote
Character: Jill Goddard
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The Guardian
Character: Carol Ritter
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Dr. Elizabeth Garrison
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The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Nurse Ellen Hatch
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Happy Days
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Hotel
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Kojak
Character: Jennifer Campbell
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Cagney & Lacey
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The Equalizer
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Hallmark Hall of Fame
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Brooklyn Bridge
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Blacke's Magic
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Jack's Place
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Studs Lonigan
Character: Lucy Scanlon
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Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Tavis
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Character: Rosamond Ardley
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Murder, She Wrote
Character: Allison Franklin
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James at 16
Character: Paisley
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Lionheart
Character: Hélène Gaultier
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Return to the Blue Lagoon
Character: Sarah Hargrave
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Julia
Character: Young Julia
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Jennifer
Character: Jennifer Baylor
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Ghoulies
Character: Rebecca
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The House of God
Character: Jo Miller
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Character: Gail Powell
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Shadow of Doubt
Character: Leslie Saxon
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Into the Badlands
Character: Sarah Carstairs
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The Blue Hotel
Character: Younger Daughter
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Character: Anna Hesse
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Character: Ashley Manson
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Character: Miranda
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Perfect Gentlemen
Character: Annie Cavagarno
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Swing Shift
Character: Violet Mulligan
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L'Homme en colère
Character: Anne
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Valley Forge
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Sacrifices of the Heart
Character: Virginia Doyle
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Character: Nancy
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The Women's Room
Character: Kyla
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Color of Justice
Character: Betty
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Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
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