Lisa Jane Persky

Lisa Jane Persky Actress -

Born May 5, 1955 in New York City, New York, USA

Mini Bio (1) Lisa Jane Persky (aka Eljay Persky) grew up in New York City's Greenwich Village and began her acting career at La Mama E.T.C. in H.M. Koutoukas' "Grandmother Is In The Strawberry Patch" as the "World's Most Perfect Teenager". She next crossed East 4th St. to co-star with Divine in Tom Eyen's "Women Behind Bars". She has appeared in many plays including Broadway's "Steaming", and at L.A.'s Met Theater and LATC. She made her film debut as 'Robert Duvall''s daughter in The Great Santini (1979). Other movie credits include Rob Reiner's The Sure Thing (1985) and When Harry Met Sally... (1989), Francis Ford Coppola's The Cotton Club (1984) and Peggy Sue Got Married (1986). She created memorable roles in The Big Easy (1986) and Coneheads (1993), and gave Quentin Tarantino his first screen kiss in Destiny Turns on the Radio (1995) and played the role of "Dirty Dee" in the cult classic _"Kiss Meets the Phantom of The Park" (1978).

Lisa has had featured roles in numerous television shows, such as _"NYPD Blue" (2004)_, The Practice (1997), _"Touched by an Angel: The Last Day of the Rest of Your Life" (#2.9) (#6.3) (1999) _, _"Quantum Leap: Memphis Melody" (#6.21) (1993)_ and The X-Files (1993). Working in a wide variety of fields, from Assistant Executive Producer on Barbet Schroeder's Kiss of Death (1995) to shaping and generating special projects for the producers of television's Jeopardy! (1984), she is also a freelance writer, photographer, and editorial collage artist and has worked for numerous publications including The Los Angeles Times, L.A. Weekly, Q, MOJO, Journal of Popular Music Studies and The Pitchfork Review. She is a founding editor of both New York Rocker and L.A. Review of Books, a recipient of a Print Magazine Award for Design Excellence and her first short story was featured in BOMB magazine.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Elaine

Andy Zax (19 January 2008 - present)

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Gary Valentine 1977

Ex-stepdaughter of Judith Rossner.

The Blondie song, "I'm Always Touched By Your Presence, Dear", was written for Lisa Jane Persky by her then-boyfriend, Gary Valentine (Gary Valentine Lachman).

Trimmed five years off her age at the beginning of her career.

She appeared in two time travel episodes in which a time traveller takes the place of Elvis Presley as he records his first hit single "That's All Right" at Sun Records on July 5, 1954: The Twilight Zone: The Once and Future King/A Saucer of Loneliness (1986) and Quantum Leap: Memphis Melody - July 3, 1954 (1993).

Born on exactly the same date as Melinda Culea (of "A-Team" fame).

Lisa Jane Persky (born May 5, 1955) is an American actress, journalist, author, artist, and photographer. She is best known for her supporting roles in the films The Great Santini (1979) Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) and When Harry Met Sally... (1989), and her work in the late 1970s as a writer and photojournalist for New York Rocker magazine.

Personal life and miscellaneous appearances On January 19, 2008, she married Andy Zax, a music historian and former co-star of the Comedy Central game show Beat the Geeks.

Persky was the subject of "(I'm Always Touched by Your) Presence, Dear", a song by Blondie. The song was written by her then-boyfriend Gary Valentine, who was the band's bassist at the time.

In 2009, Persky began making appearances on The Best Show on WFMU radio program, as both a regular caller and as an in-studio special guest. She is also a semi-regular on the Life Elsewhere program on WMNF in Tampa, Florida.

Persky occasionally has appeared at fan conventions, including the 20th anniversary celebration for Quantum Leap and at the 2013 New York/New Jersey KISS Expo.