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Lisa Pelikan
San Francisco, California, USA
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…
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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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2015
Circle
Movie Cancer Survivor
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2014
10,000 Days
Movie Anna Hesse
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2007
Sacrifices of the Heart
Movie Virginia Doyle
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2002
For the People
TV show Amanda Jacobs
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2001
Off Season
Movie Ashley Manson
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2001
The Guardian
TV show Carol Ritter
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2000
Strong Medicine
TV show Babs Darner
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1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV show Dr. Elizabeth Garrison
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1998
Shadow of Doubt
Movie Leslie Saxon
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1997
Color of Justice
Movie Betty
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1996
It's My Party
Movie Party Guest (uncredited)
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1992
Jack's Place
TV show
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1991
Brooklyn Bridge
TV show
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1991
Return to the Blue Lagoon
Movie Sarah Hargrave
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1991
Into the Badlands
Movie Sarah Carstairs
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1990
Lionheart
Movie Hélène Gaultier
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1986
Blacke's Magic
TV show
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1985
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV show Nurse Ellen Hatch
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1985
The Equalizer
TV show Anne Fitzgerald / Diane Snyder
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1985
A Bunny's Tale
Movie Lee
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1984
Ghoulies
Movie Rebecca
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1984
Murder, She Wrote
TV show Jill Goddard
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1984
Swing Shift
Movie Violet Mulligan
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1984
The House of God
Movie Jo Miller
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1982
Hotel
TV show
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1982
Cagney & Lacey
TV show
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1981
The Best Little Girl in the World
Movie Gail Powell
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1980
The Women's Room
Movie Kyla
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1979
The Last Convertible
TV show Rosamond Ardley
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1979
L'Homme en colère
Movie Anne
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1979
Studs Lonigan
TV show Lucy Scanlon
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1978
True Grit: A Further Adventure
Movie Mattie Ross
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1978
Jennifer
Movie Jennifer Baylor
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1978
Perfect Gentlemen
Movie Annie Cavagarno
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1977
Julia
Movie Young Julia
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1977
James at 16
TV show Paisley
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1977
The Blue Hotel
Movie Younger Daughter
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1976
I Want to Keep My Baby!
Movie Miranda
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1975
Valley Forge
Movie Tavis
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1974
The Country Girl
Movie Nancy
