---
name: "Lisa Jane Persky"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/lisa-jane-persky"
fi1m_id: "lisa-jane-persky"
imdb_id: "nm0675484"
tmdb_id: 9259
wikidata_id: "Q3242408"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "5 May 1955"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 82
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-23T04:13:35.141971+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Lisa Jane Persky

## Identity

Lisa Jane Persky

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/lisa-jane-persky
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** lisa-jane-persky
- **IMDb ID:** nm0675484
- **TMDB ID:** 9259
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3242408
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Jane_Persky, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3242408, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0675484/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/9259

Actor. Born 5 May 1955 in New York City, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 5 May 1955, New York City, New York, USA
- **Active:** 1986–1996
- **Also known as:** Lisa Persky
- **Average Fi1m score:** 82, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Jane_Persky, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3242408, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0675484/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/9259

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Peggy Sue Got Married*](https://film.one/film/peggy-sue-got-married.md) (79)

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## Biography

Lisa Jane Persky is an American actress. She was born on 5 May 1955 in New York City and grew up in Greenwich Village. She began her career in theatre, appearing in productions at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club and on Broadway in Steaming.

Persky made her film debut in The Great Santini (1979). She has appeared in supporting roles in films including The Cotton Club (1984), Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), The Sure Thing (1985), When Harry Met Sally... (1989) as Alice, The Big Easy (1986) and Coneheads (1993). Her television credits include episodes of The X-Files, Quantum Leap, The Golden Girls and King of the Hill. She also worked as a writer and photojournalist for New York Rocker magazine in the 1970s.

In 2008 she married music historian Andy Zax.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *When Harry Met Sally...* (1989), Fi1m 84, as Alice — [page](https://film.one/film/when-harry-met-sally.md)
- *Peggy Sue Got Married* (1986), Fi1m 79, as Delores Dodge — [page](https://film.one/film/peggy-sue-got-married.md)

## Complete filmography (49)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Grilled* (2006), as Sally Wilson
- *Invasion* (2005), series, as Disheveled Woman
- *Twins* (2005), series, as Marcy
- *The Dogwalker* (2002), as Allison
- *My First Mister* (2001), as Sheila
- *An American Rhapsody* (2001), as Pattie
- *The Division* (2001), series, as Ann Fenwick
- *Meat Loaf: To Hell and Back* (2000), as Wilma Aday
- *Tumbleweeds* (1999), as Diner Waitress
- *Goosed* (1999), as The Psychic
- *Perfect Assassins* (1998), as Janice Franklin
- *Where's Marlowe?* (1998), Actor
- *The Practice* (1997), series, as Karen Garvey
- *King of the Hill* (1997), series, as (voice) — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/king-of-the-hill-1997.md)
- *Female Perversions* (1996), as Margot
- *Destiny Turns on the Radio* (1995), as Katrina
- *Pontiac Moon* (1994), as Alicia Frank
- *Touched by an Angel* (1994), series, as Stasi Reynolds, Alison Spears
- *Dead Funny* (1994), as Sarah
- *The X-Files* (1993), series, as Laura Weinsider — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-x-files.md)
- *Coneheads* (1993), as Lisa Farber
- *The Antagonists* (1991), series, as Joanie Rutledge
- *Vital Signs* (1990), as Bobby
- *The Last of the Finest* (1990), as Harriet Gross
- *Grand* (1990), series, as Jenny Seaton
- *When Harry Met Sally...* (1989), as Alice — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/when-harry-met-sally.md)
- *Great Balls of Fire!* (1989), as Babe
- *Quantum Leap* (1989), series, as Marion Keisker
- *Sharing Richard* (1988), Actor
- *Private Eye* (1987), series, Actor
- *The Big Easy* (1986), as McCabe
- *Peggy Sue Got Married* (1986), as Delores Dodge — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/peggy-sue-got-married.md)
- *Designing Women* (1986), series, Actor
- *Crime Story* (1986), series, as Joanne Goldman
- *Crime Story: Pilot* (1986), as Joanne Goldman
- *Amazing Stories* (1985), series, as Shirley Crater
- *The Twilight Zone* (1985), series, as (segment "The Once and Future King")
- *The Golden Girls* (1985), series, as Kate — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-golden-girls.md)
- *The Sure Thing* (1985), as Mary Ann Webster
- *The Cotton Club* (1984), as Frances Flegenheimer
- *Shattered Vows* (1984), as Cathy
- *Desperate Intruder* (1983), as Linda
- *Breathless* (1983), as Salesgirl
- *American Pop* (1981), as Bella (voice)
- *The Choice* (1981), as Emmy Soames
- *The Great Santini* (1979), as Mary Anne Meechum
- *KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park* (1978), as Dirty Dee
- *The Fitzpatricks* (1977), series, Actor
- *Elaine: A Story of Lost Love* (1976), as Felicie

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