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Lisa Jane Persky (born May 5, 1955) is an American actress.
Persky was born in New York City, New York, the daughter of Jane Holley (née Wilson) and Mort Persky. She grew up in New York's Greenwich Village and attended the High School of Art and Design.
She debuted as Robert Duvall's daughter in The Great Santini and went on to act in such movies as American Pop, The Big Easy, When Harry Met Sally..., Coneheads, KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park, and Peggy Sue Got Married.
She wrote for New York Rocker magazine in the 1970s and dated former Blondie bass player Gary Valentine Lachman. On January 19, 2008, she married music historian and former co-star of the Comedy Central game show Beat the Geeks Andy Zax.
In 2009 and 2010, 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.
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26 April 1988
Three friends decide to date the same man.
21 May 1994
When her practical joker boyfriend dies, a young woman recalls all the pranks he pulled as she tries to figure out who murdered him.
03 March 2002
The L.A. dog walking scene provides a colorful backdrop for the story of Ellie Moore, damaged goods on the run from her latest abusive boyfriend and on the verge of transformation.
12 July 1989
Sex always gets in the way of friendships between men and women. At least, that's what Harry Burns believes.
13 November 1998
When deadly terrorists strike, an FBI man, who is an expert on terrorist mentality, hunts their twisted "creator," who may be connected with a disgraced professor from his past.
12 October 2001
Leelee Sobieski is brash, abrasive and vulnerable as a teenage child of divorce who hides her pain behind a mask of hard-edged gothic rebellion.
05 January 2000
"Meat Loaf" Aday is an overgrown Texas youngster, the son of a gentle woman dying of cancer and an alcoholic, abusive father.
13 April 1990
As they enter their third year of medical school, a group of young students must prepare to decide what they intend to specialize in.
23 July 1993
A pair of aliens arrive on Earth to prepare for invasion, but crash instead. With enormous cone-shaped heads, robotlike walks and an appetite for toilet paper, aliens Beldar and Prymatt don't exactly blend in with the population of Paramus, N.
14 December 1984
Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.
13 February 1981
The history of American popular music runs parallel with the history of a Russian Jewish immigrant family, with each male descendant possessing different musical abilities.
09 March 1990
An elite group of vice cops are fired from the L.A.P.D. for being over-zealous in their war against drugs.
10 October 1986
At her 25th high school reunion, Peggy Sue faints and awakens in 1960—back in her senior year, before her marriage and all her regrets.
13 May 1983
Jesse, a small-time criminal, high-tails it to Los Angeles to rendezvous with a French exchange student.
10 February 1981
A young woman agonizes over whether or not to have an abortion and learns that her mother did the same 20 years prior.
27 November 1986
Remy McSwain is a New Orleans police lieutenant who investigates the murder of a local mobster. His investigation leads him to suspect that fellow members of the police force may be involved.
01 March 1985
Gib, a beer-guzzling slob, and Alison, an uptight Ivy-Leaguer, are an unlikely duo stuck together on a cross-country trip during Christmas break.
21 November 1996
An ambitious female attorney wallows in excess and meaningless sex with both male and female partners, while dealing with her personal life problems including helping her kleptomaniac sister.
30 June 1989
The story of Jerry Lee Lewis, arguably the greatest and certainly one of the wildest musicians of the 1950s.
28 October 1984
At the age of 16 Mary becomes a nun. But she never gets used to the strict rules of her new life and when she falls in love with Father Tim, she wants to withdraw her vow.
22 June 2001
A Hungarian family forced to flee the Communist country for the United States must leave a young daughter behind.
01 January 1976
Adapted from an obscure Guy de Maupassant novella, lifted from a paperback bought by Meaney as an undergrad for 99 cents.
26 October 1979
As he approaches manhood, Ben Meechum struggles to win the approval of his demanding alpha male father, an aggressively competitive, but frustrated marine pilot.
01 October 1998
After making a disastrous 3-hour documentary on New York City's water supply, two young filmmakers focus on the goings-on of life in the LA offices of Boone and Murphy, private investigators.
28 September 1999
Sheltered rich girl Charlene has an over-protective mother who insists that her daughter should marry a rich doctor.
28 April 1995
Johnny Destiny burns into Las Vegas in his hot Plymouth RoadRunner, stopping only to pick up a stranger stranded in the desert.
18 September 1986
One former cop goes against the whole Mafia. The feature-length pilot for the cult 80s show.
31 July 1983
A blind woman living at a lonely beach house gives sanctuary to an escaped convict whose ruthless partner is on the way.
28 October 1978
The tale of rock band KISS and their efforts to thwart a diabolical plan by mad scientist Abner Devereaux.
11 July 2006
Maurice and Dave sell high-end cuts of beef, but after hitting a patch of no sales, they're facing being fired.
03 November 1994
An absent-minded-professor father and his son take off in an old Pontiac to bond during a symbolic road trip through the Western U.
26 March 2014
Harris Glenn Milstead, aka Divine (1945-1988) was the ultimate outsider turned underground hero. Spitting in the face of the status quos of body image, gender identity, sexuality, and preconceived notions of beauty, Divine succeeded in becoming an internationally recognized icon, recording artist, and character actor of stage and screen.
24 November 1999
Whenever trouble strikes in one of her relationships, single mother Mary Jo Walker and her daughter, Ava, pack up and move to another city, a routine Ava is tiring of.
