Lisa Marie
Biography
Lisa Marie is an American actress, model and producer who grew up in Piscataway, New Jersey, studying ballet at the New Jersey Ballet and classical piano before moving to New York City at 15 to train in theater, dance and music. She started out as a model, posing for Robert Mapplethorpe and becoming the Obsession Girl in Calvin Klein's perfume campaign, and made an early screen appearance in Bruce Weber's documentary Let's Get Lost (1988). Her best known parts came in Tim Burton's films: the Martian Girl in Mars Attacks! (1996), Vampira in Ed Wood (1994), Nova in Planet of the Apes (2001) and Lady Crane in Sleepy Hollow (1999). She also starred in Matthew Modine's directorial debut, If... Dog... Rabbit..., hosted Exposure, a short film series on the Sci-Fi Channel, from 2000 to 2002, and appeared in Rob Zombie's The Lords of Salem (2012) and the horror film We Are Still Here (2015).
57years old
Turns 58 on December 5in 53 days
- Born Piscataway
- Star sign: SagittariusThe sign runs November 22 to December 21
- Also credited as Lisa Marie Smith
Movie Career
- Films
- 10
- Career span
- 28 years1988 to 2016
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Early training
Lisa Marie trained in classical piano and spent eight years studying ballet at the New Jersey Ballet. At 15 she moved to New York City, where she studied theater, dance and music.
Beyond film
In 1989, Lisa Marie appeared on the song "Something's Jumpin' in Your Shirt" by Malcolm McLaren, which came from his album Waltz Darling, also released that year.
Getting ready for a role
For Mars Attacks!, Lisa Marie had to be sewn into her tight Martian Girl dress and wore a heavy wig and fake beehive.
Lisa Marie movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Tim Burton directed three of these films. Four actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Johnny Depp's page
Barbara Crampton's page
Sarah Jessica Parker's page
Jeffrey Jones's page
All films by Tim Burton
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.