Lisa Pelikan

Lisa Pelikan is an American actress of stage, film, and television. Born in Berkeley, California, she grew up in several countries before her family settled in Maryland. She studied acting at the Juilliard School in New York City, where she attended on a full scholarship. Her first regular television part was Kate Mahaffey, a maid, on the CBS soap opera Beacon Hill (1975), and in 1977 she reached Broadway as Rosaline in Romeo and Juliet. That year also brought her film debut, as the young version of Vanessa Redgrave's title character in Julia (1977). She took the title role in the horror movie Jennifer (1978), appeared in the miniseries Studs Lonigan (1979), and later had parts in Swing Shift (1984), Ghoulies (1984), and Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991). A Los Angeles one-woman show, Only a Broken String of Pearls (1995), brought her a Drama-Logue Award, and she also appeared in Shadow of Doubt (1998).