Lisa Pelikan (born July 12, 1954) is an American stage, film and television actress.
She was born in Paris, France, the daughter of American parents Helen L., a psychologist, and Robert G. Pelikan, an international economist who served as the minister-counselor from the United States at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris. She graduated from the Juilliard School with a full scholarship to its drama division. Pelikan is primarily a stage actor and director, but is also known to film audiences for her film debut as the younger version of Vanessa Redgrave's title character in Julia (1977) (for which Redgrave won an Oscar), and her role as the widowed mother Sarah Hargrave in the film sequel Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991).
Pelikan's first regular Television work was as maid Kate Mahaffey on the CBS soap opera Beacon Hill. Other high points in her career include her performances as the lusty Lucy Scanlon in the Television miniseries Studs Lonigan (1979), and the title character of the horror film Jennifer (1978). She also won a Drama-Logue Award for her one-woman play about Zelda Fitzgerald entitled "Only a Broken String of Pearls".
She was married to fellow actor Bruce Davison, with whom she has one son, Ethan. She and Davison are divorced.
Has one son
Attended Walt Whitman High Schol in Bethesda, Maryland
Born in Paris and raised in Italy and Japan, her father was a financial attaché for various US embassies overseas and her mother was a prominent psychologist.
Was leaning toward a dance career when surgery in high school cut short her pursuit.
Lovely, fragile-looking, frizzy red-haired leading lady of stage, film and TV who made her movie debut with the title role of Julia (1977) in 1977, playing Vanessa Redgrave in earlier years. Redgrave won a supporting Oscar.
Primarily a stage actress, she won a Drama-Logue Award for her one-woman play about Zelda Sayre (aka Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald) entitled "Only a Broken String of Pearls." She also directs, having helmed a stage production of "'Night, Mother" at the Interact Theatre in Los Angeles.
Offered a full scholarship at Juilliard School of Drama in the 1970s.
