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Lisa Jakub (born December 27, 1978) is a Canadian writer, yoga teacher, and former actress. She is best known for her roles as Lydia Hillard in the comedy-drama film Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) and as Alicia Casse in Independence Day (1996).
Childhood and education
Jakub was born on December 27, 1978, in Toronto, Ontario. She is of Slovak (father) and Welsh and Scottish (mother) descent. She attended multiple schools in her early life, including Hillfield Strathallan College.
Jakub graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in sociology in 2010.
Acting
Jakub's first role was as Katis' Granddaughter in the 1985 film Eleni. She appeared in comedy-drama film Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) alongside Mara Wilson, Sally Field, Matthew Lawrence, and Robin Williams. When Jakub received the part of Lydia in Mrs. Doubtfire, her high school expelled her for accruing too many absences. Robin Williams wrote a letter to Jakub's high school, pleading with them to re-admit Jakub but this was unsuccessful.
She played Sandra in Matinee (1993), appeared in A Pig's Tale (1994) and Independence Day (1996), The Beautician and the Beast (1997), and played the "inspiration" for Princess Leia in the short film George Lucas in Love (1999). She starred in Picture Perfect (1995) and portrayed a bordello worker in the American Old West in Painted Angels (1997).
Personal life
Jakub retired from acting in 2001 at the age of 22 and soon moved to Virginia. In 2005, she married Jeremy Jones, a longtime friend and former theatre manager. Jakub stated she has no plans to return to acting.
Jakub later became a writer, authoring two non-fiction books: the autobiography You Look Like That Girl (2015) and Not Just Me (2017). She also contributes to online blogs.
Jakub is a qualified Kripalu yoga teacher. She has openly discussed her battles with anxiety, depression and panic attacks, from which she has suffered since her teenage years, and credits her yoga practice for helping her to overcome them. In 2021, Lisa launched a new website, BlueMala, which she described as the resource that she wished she had when she was in her darkest moments. The website contains her articles on mental wellness along with her yoga and meditation videos.
Writings
You Look Like That Girl: A Child Actor Stops Pretending and Finally Grows Up (2015)
Not Just Me: Anxiety, Depression, and Learning to Embrace Your Weird (2017)
(Don't) Call Me Crazy (contributing writer) (Algonquin, 2018)
Most Popular Lisa Jakub Trailers
Total trailers found: 26
25 June 1996
Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major cities.
01 January 1997
As Newton devotes himself to the difficult and solitary path of challenging the existing view of the universe and proving his own theories on celestial movement and gravity, his young scribe Humphrey wavers between pursuing science or following his heart.
02 October 1995
True life drama about a working mum whose life is put back in jeopardy when the man who was convicted of stalking her and killing her cousin comes up for parole.
24 November 1993
Loving but irresponsible dad Daniel Hillard, estranged from his exasperated spouse, is crushed by a court order allowing only weekly visits with his kids.
30 December 1989
A married man calls the wrong number for phone-sex and winds up being stalked by a psychotic man.
03 November 1991
A drama directed by Lou Antonio.
13 November 1994
A recently widowed doctor moves with her daughter to start at a new hospital. While there a loving mother brings her son in for treatment.
22 November 1999
A shady cop gets in over his head when he frames his partner during a drug scam.
25 September 1989
A rock singer revives a failing TV ministry, but the cost may be high when she falls for a reporter planning an exposé.
04 April 1996
After a strange storm in the Carribean causes a boat to sink, a family finds itself stranded on an island in the "27th dimension".
07 February 1997
A New York City beautician is mistakenly hired as the school teacher for the children of the president of a small Eastern European country.
09 December 1991
When Grace comes to live with her daughter and son-in-law, she is eager to find a way to be useful in the community.
29 January 1999
The world of a young housewife is turned upside down when she has an affair with a free-spirited blouse salesman.
10 September 1991
In the Deep South of the 1930s, Rose is taken in by the Hillyer family to serve as housemaid so that she can avoid falling into a life of prostitution.
29 January 1993
A showman introduces a small coastal town to a unique movie experience and capitalizes on the Cuban Missile crisis hysteria with a kitschy horror extravaganza combining film effects, stage props and actors in rubber suits in this salute to the B-movie.
01 November 1985
Nick is a writer in New York when he gets posted to a bureau in Greece. He has waited 30 years for this.
15 May 1996
After her daughter is kidnapped by white slave traders, a mother enlists the aid of a world war 2 vet and a boat captain.
15 July 1994
Kids' comedy with all the clichés. Six boys (hero, pudgy, dumb, romeo, etc), reluctantly sent to summer camp, are grouped together in a ramshackle hut, and instantly identified as losers and outcasts by the overconfident camp bullies, who target gorgeous Tiffany (Jakub) as their Lothario's girlfriend.
20 April 1997
Teenage Zoe Tyler suffers from manic-depression. With a musician father who is never around life seems hard.
22 December 1986
Story of a well-to-do elderly woman, who befriends the homeless and volunteers her time with children, who learns she has an incurable illness and wants desperately to reunite her three grown grand children (who are scattered across the U.
18 September 1999
1967 film student George Lucas has writer's block trying to finish his "Space Wheat" script, until a beautiful fellow student with a familiar hairstyle teaches him that the best stories are in plain sight.
21 July 1998
The story centers on the life of a bordello in a midwestern prairie town in the 1870s. The whorehouse is run by pragmatic madam Annie Ryan and the film follows the life of several of her girls.
01 January 1998
An inventor moves his family into a prototype smart home in order to work out the kinks and sell the program.
01 January 1988
Lester and Humphrey are the Royal Jester and Doctor, respectively, in a Kingdom terrorized by a mysterious giant whose presence is known only by his horrible voice and giant shadow.
14 October 1995
Two teenagers (with single parents) join their families together in order to win the grand prize in a soda company competition by pretending to be the perfect family.
30 December 2015
"A 2015 pilot I made for a BBC webseries, rejected after I got into an argument with the commissioner.
