Lisa Lackey
Biography
Lisa Lackey (born Elizabeth Lackey, March 2, 1971, in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian actress, 5′ 9″ (175 cm) tall, who grew up in Orange, New South Wales, and attended Orange High School. She began modeling as a child, left home at 17 to pursue acting in Sydney, and landed her breakout role as Roxanne "Roxy" Miller on the Australian soap opera Home and Away (1992–1995) at age 21, alongside Simon Baker. She moved to the United States in 1995 to pursue her career in Hollywood and retired from acting around 2013.
Her most notable film credits include Carol in Mulholland Drive (2001, directed by David Lynch), Friend at Leo's Party in Planet of the Apes (2001, directed by Tim Burton), Dr. Jessica Platt-Trenton in New Alcatraz (2001), and Fia Forbes in The Last Sin Eater (2007). On television she is best known as Janice Parkman in Heroes (2006–2010, 18 episodes, NBC), the lead in Just Cause (2002–2003, 22 episodes), a supporting role in the final season of NYPD Blue (2004–2005), Cindy Thomas in The Pretender (1997), Alexis in Flipper (1995, 15 episodes), and the angel Verchiel in Fallen (2006, ABC Family), with additional credits in House (2011), Bones (2008), Medium (2005), CSI: Miami (2004), Sliders (1995), and Spellbinder (1995).
Known for
House
Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.
Medium
Allison Dubois works in the District Attorney’s office using her natural intuition about people and her ability to communicate with the dead to help to solve crimes. Her dreams often give her clues to the whereabouts of missing people.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that solve the mystery.
Bones
Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.
CSI: Miami
The show follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as they use physical evidence, similar to their Las Vegas counterparts, to solve grisly murders. The series mixes deduction, gritty subject matter, and character-driven drama in the same vein as the original series in the CSI franchise, except that the Miami CSIs are cops first, scientists second.
Heroes
Common people discover that they have super powers. Their lives intertwine as a devastating event must be prevented.
Strong Medicine
The lives of staff in the womens' health clinic of a fictitious hospital in Philadelphia.
Crossing Jordan
Crossing Jordan is an American television crime/drama series that stars Jill Hennessy as Jordan Cavanaugh, M.D., a crime-solving forensic pathologist employed in the Massachusetts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
Sliders
In his basement in San Francisco, boy-genius Quinn Mallory unlocks the doorway to an infinite number of Earths. During a test run, Quinn invites co-worker Wade Welles and his teacher Professor Maximillian Arturo to see his new invention. But an increase in power and an early departure leave all three, plus a washed-up soul singer named Rembrandt "Crying Man" Brown, lost in a parallel world. Now they must "slide" from world to world, not only adapting to their changing surroundings, but also trying to get back to their world. Will they ever make it home?
The Pretender
Raised in a secret facility built for experimenting on children, Jarod is a genius who can master any profession and become anyone he has to be. When he realizes as an adult that he's actually a prisoner and his captors are not as benevolent as he's been told, he breaks out. While trying to find his real identity, Jarod helps those he encounters and tries to avoid the woman sent to retrieve him.
Shark
Notorious Los Angeles defense attorney Sebastian Stark becomes disillusioned with his career after his successful defense of a wife-abuser results in the wife's death. After more than a month trying to come to grips with his situation, he is invited by the Los Angeles district attorney to become a public prosecutor so he can apply his unorthodox-but-effective talents to putting guilty people away instead of putting them back on the street.
Mulholland Drive
Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.
Spellbinder
A group of teenagers go on a school camp in the Blue Mountains in Australia. While at the camp, Paul Reynolds accidentally goes into a parallel universe. This other world is inhabited by a more hierarchic and technologically different society, ruled by a group of people known as Spellbinders.
Spellbinder
A group of teenagers go on a school camp in the Blue Mountains in Australia. While at the camp, Paul Reynolds accidentally goes into a parallel universe. This other world is inhabited by a more hierarchic and technologically different society, ruled by a group of people known as Spellbinders.
Rude Awakening
Unemployed alcoholic ex-soap-opera actress Billie Frank tries to go sober and become a writer but continues to struggle with her self-destructive habits; her relationships with other members of Addictions Anonymous, her neighbor Dave, and her mother Trudy are explored.