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: 1.759
  • 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...

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  • 1979
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    The Great Santini

    The Great Santini

    6.695 1979 HD

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

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  • 1985
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    The Sure Thing

    The Sure Thing

    6.5 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...

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  • 1993
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    Coneheads

    Coneheads

    5.422 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...

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  • 1981
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    American Pop

    American Pop

    6.806 1981 HD

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

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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  • 1997
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    Female Perversions

    Female Perversions

    5.1 1997 HD

    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...

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  • 1989
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    When Harry Met Sally...

    When Harry Met Sally...

    7.408 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...

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  • 1994
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    Pontiac Moon

    Pontiac Moon

    5.2 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...

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  • 1983
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    Breathless

    Breathless

    5.8 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...

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  • 2006
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    Grilled

    Grilled

    4.9 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...

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  • 1986
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    Peggy Sue Got Married

    Peggy Sue Got Married

    6.126 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.

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  • 1984
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    The Cotton Club

    The Cotton Club

    6.5 1984 HD

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

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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...

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  • 2001
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    An American Rhapsody

    An American Rhapsody

    6.261 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...

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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.

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  • 1989
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    Great Balls of Fire!

    Great Balls of Fire!

    6.284 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...

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  • 1990
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    The Last of the Finest

    The Last of the Finest

    5.9 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...

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  • 1998
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    Where's Marlowe?

    Where's Marlowe?

    5.7 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...

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  • 1995
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    Destiny Turns on the Radio

    Destiny Turns on the Radio

    5.2 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...

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  • 1999
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    Goosed

    Goosed

    3.667 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...

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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...

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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...

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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.

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  • 2001
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    My First Mister

    My First Mister

    6.508 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....

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  • 1988
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    Sharing Richard

    Sharing Richard

    1 1988 HD

    Three friends decide to date the same man.

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  • 1978
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    KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park

    KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park

    5.3 1978 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...

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  • 1999
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    Tumbleweeds

    Tumbleweeds

    6.5 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...

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  • 1986
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    Crime Story: Pilot

    Crime Story: Pilot

    9 1986 HD

    One former cop goes against the whole Mafia. The feature-length pilot for the cult 80s show.

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  • 1985
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    The Twilight Zone

    The Twilight Zone

    7.7 1985 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...

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  • 1993
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    The X-Files

    The X-Files

    8.376 1993 HD

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

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  • 1991
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    The Antagonists

    The Antagonists

    6 1991 HD

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

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  • 1987
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    Private Eye

    Private Eye

    4.2 1987 HD

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

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  • 1985
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    Amazing Stories

    Amazing Stories

    7.5 1985 HD

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

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  • 1962
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    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    7.37 1962 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...

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  • 1989
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    Quantum Leap

    Quantum Leap

    8.033 1989 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...

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  • 1977
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    The Fitzpatricks

    The Fitzpatricks

    5 1977 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...

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  • 1986
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    Crime Story

    Crime Story

    7.953 1986 HD

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

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  • 1997
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    King of the Hill

    King of the Hill

    7.319 1997 HD

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

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  • 2005
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    Invasion

    Invasion

    7.1 2005 HD

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

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  • 1985
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    The Golden Girls

    The Golden Girls

    7.544 1985 HD

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

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  • 1994
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    Touched by an Angel

    Touched by an Angel

    7.2 1994 HD

    Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives.

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  • 1994
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    Touched by an Angel

    Touched by an Angel

    7.2 1994 HD

    Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives.

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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,...

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  • 1986
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    Designing Women

    Designing Women

    6.7 1986 HD

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

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