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An early participant in the [[CBGB]] music scene, she was a founding member of the ''[[New York Rocker]]'' magazine staff.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rip-her-to-shreds.com/archive_press_magazines_nyrockermay76.php|work=Rip-her-to-shreds.com|title=New York Rocker|date=May 1976|accessdate=April 22, 2013}}</ref> During that era, she documented the burgeoning punk/new wave movement both as a writer and a photojournalist. She revisited that scene on the New York Rockers panel at the 2012 EMP Pop Conference.<ref name ="2012 EMP Pop Conference">{{cite web|url=http://empconference2012.sched.org/speaker/lisajanepersky#.UYmET8pZR-R |title=Lisa Jane Persky |publisher=2012 EMP Pop Conference |accessdate=2013-05-03}}</ref> |
An early participant in the [[CBGB]] music scene, she was a founding member of the ''[[New York Rocker]]'' magazine staff.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rip-her-to-shreds.com/archive_press_magazines_nyrockermay76.php|work=Rip-her-to-shreds.com|title=New York Rocker|date=May 1976|accessdate=April 22, 2013}}</ref> During that era, she documented the burgeoning punk/new wave movement both as a writer and a photojournalist. She revisited that scene on the New York Rockers panel at the 2012 EMP Pop Conference.<ref name ="2012 EMP Pop Conference">{{cite web|url=http://empconference2012.sched.org/speaker/lisajanepersky#.UYmET8pZR-R |title=Lisa Jane Persky |publisher=2012 EMP Pop Conference |accessdate=2013-05-03}}</ref> |
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As a journalist, her work has also appeared in a variety of publications, including ''[[Fortean Times]]''<ref name |
As a journalist, her work has also appeared in a variety of publications, including ''[[Fortean Times]]''<ref name="Fortean Times">{{cite web|url=http://www.forteantimes.com/strangedays/obituaries/645/curtis_harrington.html |title=Strange Days: Obituaries/Curtis Harrington |publisher=The Fortean Times |accessdate=2013-04-30 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121521503500/http://www.forteantimes.com/strangedays/obituaries/645/curtis_harrington.html |archivedate=1970-01-01 |df= }}</ref> and the ''[[LA Weekly]]''.<ref name ="LA Weekly">{{cite web|url=http://noirpictures.blogspot.com/2006/10/mayor-of-sunset-strip.html |title=RODNEY BINGENHEIMER: A Child of the Myth |publisher=LA Weekly |accessdate=2013-04-30}}</ref> |
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In 2010, she became a founding editor of the ''[[Los Angeles Review of Books]]'', where she was also Art Director, leaving the publication in December 2012. |
In 2010, she became a founding editor of the ''[[Los Angeles Review of Books]]'', where she was also Art Director, leaving the publication in December 2012. |
Revision as of 18:53, 16 May 2017
Lisa Jane Persky | |
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Born | |
Occupation(s) | Actress, author, artist, photographer |
Years active | 1977 - present |
Spouse | Andy Zax (2008-present) |
Website | lisajaneperskyphoto |
Lisa Jane Persky (born May 5, 1955) is an American actress, journalist, author, artist, and photographer.
Early life and education
Persky was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the daughter of Jane Holley (née Wilson) and Mort Persky, and, subsequent to her parents' divorce, the step-daughter of novelist Judith Rossner (Looking for Mr. Goodbar) and classical violinist Vladimir Weisman.[1] She grew up in New York's Greenwich Village, making her home at 87 Christopher Street,[2] a building known for such notable tenants as playwright H.M. Koutoukas[3] and Yoko Ono. Persky attended P.S. 41 elementary school and the High School of Art and Design in Manhattan, where she studied graphic design.[4]
Acting
Immediately after she graduated from high school, Persky's neighbor H.M. Koutoukas told her that he had written a play for her, and cast her (at the sum of $25 per week) as "Cordelia Wells, The World's Most Perfect Teenager" in the play Grandmother Is in the Strawberry Patch at the La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, the first of several collaborations between the two.[3] In 1976, she performed (as Mary-Eleanor) in Tom Eyen's Women Behind Bars, directed by Ron Link and starring Divine.[5] Since that time, she has appeared in a wide variety of plays, including Broadway's Steaming,[6] and has won critical acclaim in Los Angeles for many stage performances, as well as the Drama-Logue and LA Weekly awards for best actress for These Men, in which she starred at LAATC (Los Angeles Actors Theatre Company), and for Hearts on Fire at the Odyssey.[7] She also received a Drama Critics Circle Award nomination (for Outstanding Performance) for her role in playwright Mayo Simon's These Men.
Her breakout performance as a film actress came in 1979, playing the role of Robert Duvall's daughter in The Great Santini, and she has gone on to act in more than two dozen films, including American Pop,[8] The Big Easy, When Harry Met Sally..., Coneheads, The Cotton Club, and Peggy Sue Got Married. While playing Katrina in 1995's Destiny Turns on the Radio, she gave actor/director Quentin Tarantino his first on-screen kiss.[9] In 2013, she appeared as herself in I Am Divine,[10] Jeffrey Schwarz's documentary about the late actor Divine.
In television, Persky's work has included a recurring role on Private Eye,[11] as well as appearances on the likes of NYPD Blue, The X-Files, King of the Hill, E/R, The Golden Girls, and dozens more. She has also appeared in such made-for-TV movies as Meat Loaf: To Hell and Back and KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park.[12][13]
Writing and editing
An early participant in the CBGB music scene, she was a founding member of the New York Rocker magazine staff.[14] During that era, she documented the burgeoning punk/new wave movement both as a writer and a photojournalist. She revisited that scene on the New York Rockers panel at the 2012 EMP Pop Conference.[15]
As a journalist, her work has also appeared in a variety of publications, including Fortean Times[16] and the LA Weekly.[17]
In 2010, she became a founding editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books, where she was also Art Director, leaving the publication in December 2012.
Her fiction has appeared, among other places, in the magazine BOMB[18] and Eclectica (where, billed as Eljay Persky, she was one of 30 writers selected to be anthologized in their Eclectica: Best Fiction Vol. 1 collection).[19]
Art
In addition to fine art photography, her work as a photographer has been featured in periodicals such as Mojo, Q, and Uncut, and also in books, including Gary Valentine's memoir, New York Rocker: My Life in The Blank Generation,[20] Punk: The Whole Story,[21] and Lance Out Loud,[22] to which she also contributed an essay. Her collage work has appeared in publications including the Los Angeles Times and LA Style, and it earned her an Award for Design Excellence from Print magazine. In 2008, she co-produced and curated Los Angeles Loteria; An Exploration of Identity, an edition of prints in honor of the 40th anniversary of Aardvark Letterpress.[23][24] In 2012, she contributed the foreword to the exhibit catalogue for photographer Bobby Grossman's show Low Fidelity - The Photos of Bobby Grossman.[25]
Personal life
On January 19, 2008, she married music historian and former co-star of the Comedy Central game show Beat the Geeks, Andy Zax.[26]
Miscellaneous
Persky was the subject of a critically lauded song by Blondie, "(I'm Always Touched by Your) Presence, Dear", which was written by her then-boyfriend, Gary Valentine, who was the band's bassist at the time.
In 2009, 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. She is also a semi-regular on the Life Elsewhere[27] program on WMNF FM, Tampa.
Persky occasionally has appeared at fan conventions, including the 20th anniversary celebration for Quantum Leap[28] and at the 2013 NY/NJ KISS Expo.[29]
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1979 | The Great Santini | Mary Anne Meechum | |
1980 | Love in a Taxi | Marian | |
1981 | American Pop | Bella | |
1983 | Breathless | Salesgirl | billed as Lisa Persky |
1984 | The Cotton Club | Frances Flegenheimer | |
1985 | The Sure Thing | Mary Ann Webster | |
1986 | Peggy Sue Got Married | Delores Dodge | |
1987 | The Big Easy | McCabe | |
1989 | Great Balls of Fire! | Babe | |
1989 | When Harry Met Sally... | Alice | |
1990 | In the Best Interest of the Children | Gwen Hatcher | |
1990 | The Last of the Finest | Harriet Gross | |
1990 | Vital Signs | Bobby | |
1993 | Coneheads | Lisa Farber | |
1994 | Dead Funny | Sarah | |
1994 | Pontiac Moon | Alicia Frank | |
1995 | Destiny Turns on the Radio | Katrina | |
1996 | Female Perversions | Margot | |
1998 | Where's Marlowe? | Jenny | |
1999 | Tumbleweeds | Diner Waitress | billed as Lisa Persky |
1999 | The Wetonkawa Flash | ||
1999 | Goosed | The Psychic | |
2001 | My First Mister | Sheila | |
2001 | An American Rhapsody | Pattie | |
2002 | The Dogwalker | Allison | |
2006 | Grilled | Sally Wilson | |
2013 | I Am Divine | Herself |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1977 | The Fitzpatricks | Episodes: "Halloween" and "The New Fitzpatrick" | |
1978 | NBC Special Treat | Cindy | Episode: "Snowbound" |
1978 | KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park | Dirty Dee | Television movie |
1980 | Shirley | Episode: "The Three Dates of Shirley Miller" | |
1981 | ABC Afterschool Specials | Jo Dayton | Episode: "A Matter of Time" |
1981 | The Choice | Emmy Soames | Television movie |
1981 | Quincy M.E. | Penny Stone | Episode: "Sugar and Spice" |
1982 | The Incredible Hulk | Rita | Episode: "A Minor Problem" |
1982 | Open All Night | Laurie | |
1982 | Trapper John, M.D. | Sally | Episode: "Ladies in Waiting" |
1983 | Desperate Intruder | Linda | Television movie |
1984 | E/R | Episode: "Sentimental Journey" | |
1984 | Shattered Vows | Sister Cathy | Television movie |
1985 | The Golden Girls | Kate Zbornak | Episode: "Guess Who's Coming to the Wedding?" |
1985 | Amazing Stories | Shirley | Episode: "The Main Attraction" |
1985 | New Love, American Style | Episode: "Love and Leaving Home" | |
1986 | Crime Story | Joanne Goldman | Episode: "Pilot" |
1986 | The Twilight Zone | Sandra | Episode: "The Once and Future King" |
1987 | Private Eye | Dottie | Episodes: "Pilot," "Nickey the Rose," "War Buddy," "Blue Movie," "Blue Hotel Pt.1," "Nobody Dies in Chinatown" |
1988 | Private Eye | Dottie | Episode: "Hollywood Confidential" |
1988 | Sharing Richard | Roberta | |
1988 | thirtysomething | Sharon Berman | Episode: "Whose Forest Is This?" |
1989 | It's Garry Shandling's Show | Kitty | Episode: "Vegas: Part 2" |
1990 | Grand | Jenny | Episode: "Norris' Romance" |
1991 | The Antagonists | Joanie Rutledge | |
1992 | Designing Women | Heather McPhaul | Episode: "All About Odes to Atlanta" |
1992 | Mann & Machine | Episode: "Cold, Cold Heart" | |
1993 | Murphy Brown | Jane | Episode: "Games Mothers Play" |
1994 | Quantum Leap | Marion | Episode: "Memphis Melody - July 3, 1954" |
1995 | The Marshal | Felton Voorhees | Episodes: "Twoslip" and "Pass the Gemelli" |
1995 | Touched by an Angel | Alison | Episode: "The Big Bang" |
1997 | The Pretender | Lamont | Episode: "Bomb Squad" |
1998 | Perfect Assassins | Janice Franklin | Television movie |
1999 | The X-Files | Laura Weinsider | Episode: "Terms of Endearment" |
1999 | King of the Hill | Actress (voice) | Episode: "Love Hurts and So Does Art" |
1999 | Touched by an Angel | Stasi | Episode: "The Last Day of the Rest of Your Life" |
2000 | Meat Loaf: To Hell and Back | Wilma Aday | Television movie |
2002 | The Practice | Karen Garvey | Episode: "The Test" |
2002 | The Division | Ann Fenwick | Episode: "Illusions" |
2004 | NYPD Blue | Jessica Applebaum | Episode: "What's Your Poison?" |
2005 | Invasion | Disheveled Woman | Episode: "Unnatural Selection" |
2005 | Twins | Marcy | Episode: "Horse Sense" |
References
- ^ "Lisa Jane Persky, Andrew Zax". The New York Times. January 20, 2008. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
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(help) - ^ "Yoko Revisits Her Old Home". Instagram.com. Retrieved May 6, 2013.
- ^ a b Persky, Lisa Jane (March 21, 2010). "H.M. Koutoukas; A Remembrance". Noir Pictures.
- ^ Contributor's Notes, Eclectica magazine, October / November 2005. Accessed August 6, 2008. "Eljay Persky grew up in New York City's Greenwich Village, attending the High School of Art and Design."
- ^ Women Behind Bars. Google.com. Retrieved 2013-04-30.
- ^ "Steaming". PlaybillVault.com. Retrieved May 6, 2013.
- ^ "Lisa Jane Persky". Turner Classic Movies.com. Retrieved May 6, 2013.
- ^ Canby, Vincent (February 13, 1981). "'American Pop' Grown-Up Animation". The New York Times. Retrieved 2011-08-16.
- ^ Dawson, Jeffrey (1995). Quentin Tarantino: The Cinema of Cool. Applause Books. Retrieved May 7, 2013.
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ignored (help) - ^ "I am Divine - The Movie". DivineMovie.com. Retrieved May 6, 2013.
- ^ "Private Eye TV Intro". YouTube.com. Retrieved May 7, 2013.
- ^ "Lisa Jane Persky". The New York Times.
- ^ "PodKISSt #23: KISS Goes to the Movies (Part 1) - Lisa Jane Persky Interview". Podkisst.com. Retrieved May 2013.
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(help) - ^ "New York Rocker". Rip-her-to-shreds.com. May 1976. Retrieved April 22, 2013.
- ^ "Lisa Jane Persky". 2012 EMP Pop Conference. Retrieved 2013-05-03.
- ^ "Strange Days: Obituaries/Curtis Harrington". The Fortean Times. Archived from the original on 1970-01-01. Retrieved 2013-04-30.
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- ^ "One of Milo Challenger's Stories". BOMB (magazine). Retrieved 2013-04-30.
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(help) - ^ "Best Fiction Volume One Sales Sheet" (PDF). Eclectica. Retrieved 2013-04-30.
- ^ "New York Rocker: My Life in the Blank Generation". Amazon.com. Retrieved May 7, 2013.
- ^ "Punk: The Whole Story". Amazon.com. Retrieved May 7, 2013.
- ^ "Lance Out Loud". Amazon.com. Retrieved May 7, 2013.
- ^ "Aardvark Letterpress marks its 40th year with loteria-like fine art prints". The Los Angeles Times. June 15, 2008. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
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(help) - ^ "Los Angeles Loteria". Bert Green Fine Art. Retrieved May 7, 2013.
- ^ "Low Fidelity - The Photos of Bobby Grossman". ShebangDesign.com. Retrieved May 7, 2013.
- ^ "Lisa Jane Persky, Andrew Zax". The New York Times. January 20, 2008. Retrieved 16 March 2009.
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(help) - ^ "Life Elsewhere". WMNF.org. Retrieved May 6, 2013.
- ^ "20th Anniversary Guest Stars". LeapBack2009.com. Retrieved May 7, 2013.
- ^ "Lisa Jane Persky". njKISSxpo.com. Retrieved May 7, 2013.