Person Details

Birthday: 1954-07-12 00:27:13

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Female

Place of birth: San Francisco, California, USA

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Movie Involvements: 17

TV Involvements: 9


Most Famous Work

Biography

​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.

Most Famous Work

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
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8

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

(1999) Dr. Elizabeth Garrison
Murder, She Wrote
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8

Murder, She Wrote

(1984) Jill Goddard
The Equalizer
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7

The Equalizer

(1985) Anne Fitzgerald / Diane Snyder
Kojak
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7

Kojak

(1973) Jennifer Campbell
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
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7

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

(1985) Nurse Ellen Hatch
Hallmark Hall of Fame
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9

Hallmark Hall of Fame

(1951) Tavis
Lionheart
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7

Lionheart

(1990) Hélène Gaultier
Return to the Blue Lagoon
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6

Return to the Blue Lagoon

(1991) Sarah Hargrave

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2015 Cancer Survivor
2014 Anna Hesse
2007 Virginia Doyle
2001 Ashley Manson
N/A
1999 Dr. Elizabeth Garrison
1998 Leslie Saxon
1992 N/A
1991 N/A
Sarah Hargrave
Sarah Carstairs
1990 Hélène Gaultier
1986 N/A
1985 Nurse Ellen Hatch
Anne Fitzgerald / Diane Snyder
Lee
Rebecca
1984 Jill Goddard
Violet Mulligan
Jo Miller
1982 N/A
N/A
1981 Gail Powell
1980 Kyla
1979 Rosamond Ardley
Anne
Lucy Scanlon
1978 Mattie Ross
Jennifer Baylor
Annie Cavagarno
1977 Young Julia
Younger Daughter
1976 Miranda
1975 N/A
1974 Nancy
N/A
1973 Jennifer Campbell
1951 Nancy
Tavis
Year Character Movie/Tv

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