Name: Lisa Pelikan
Date of Birth: 12 July 1954 Has one son Attended Walt Whitman High Schol in Bethesda, Maryland Born in Paris and raised in Italy and Japan, her father was a financial attach? for various US embassies overseas and her mother was a prominent psychologist. Was leaning toward a dance career when surgery in high school cut short her pursuit. Lovely, fragile-looking, frizzy red-haired leading lady of stage, film and TV who made her movie debut with the title role of Julia (1977) in 1977, playing Vanessa Redgrave in earlier years. Redgrave won a supporting Oscar. ... Primarily a stage actress, she won a Drama-Logue Award for her one-woman play about Zelda Sayre (aka Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald) entitled "Only a Broken String of Pearls." She also directs, having helmed a stage production of "'Night, Mother" at the Interact Theatre in Los Angeles. Offered a full scholarship at Juilliard School of Drama in the 1970s. Read more Lisa Pelikan movies (actor)User Comments |
