Lisa Banes
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Lisa Banes (born July 9, 1955) is an American actress. She was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play in 1984 for Isn't it Romantic? and won a 1981 Theatre World Award for her performance as Alison Porter Off-Broadway in Look Back in Anger. In film, she has appeared in Cocktail (1988), Freedom Writers (2007), Gone Girl (2014), and as Hollis in A Cure for Wellness (2016).
Early life
Banes was born in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. She studied acting at the Juilliard School in New York City.
Career
Stage
She has appeared on Broadway several times. She played Cassie in the Neil Simon play Rumors in 1988 with Christine Baranski, Margaret Lord in the musical High Society with Anna Kendrick in 1998, was in Accent on Youth with David Hyde Pierce in 2009, and most recently in the 2010 revival of Present Laughter with Victor Garber.
Television and film
On television, Banes had a regular roles as Doreen Morrison in The Trials of Rosie O'Neill starring Sharon Gless, and as Mayor Anita Massengil on the Fox comedy series Son of the Beach (2000-01). She also had recurring roles on The King of Queens as Carrie's boss Georgia Boone, Six Feet Under as Victoria, on One Life to Live as Eve McBain, and on Nashville Season 6 as the Ranch Director. She also guest starred as a Trill doctor in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Equilibrium". Banes played Anne Kane in the 1985 TV miniseries Kane & Abel. Her other television credits include China Beach, Murder, She Wrote, The Practice, NYPD Blue, Desperate Housewives, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Good Wife, NCIS, and Once Upon a Time. From 2010 to 2016, she had a recurring role as Ellen Collins on Royal Pains.
Banes also starred as Mrs. Berry in The Hotel New Hampshire (1984), Bonnie in Cocktail (1988), Flora in Dragonfly (2002), and Christina Ricci's mother in Pumpkin (2002). In 2014, she appeared in David Fincher's Gone Girl as Marybeth Elliott, mother of Amy Elliott (Rosamund Pike).
Personal life
Banes lives in Los Angeles. She is married to Kathryn Kranhold. On June 4, 2021, Banes was struck by a motorist on a scooter in a hit and run accident in New York City. She was admitted to Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital with a severe brain injury.
Filmography
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Spenser: For Hire | Meghan Farrell | Episode "No Room at the Inn" |
| 1986 | The Equalizer | Allison | Episode: Nightscape |
| 1987 | Leg Work | Celia Checkman | Episodes: "Pilot", "The Art of Murder" |
| 1988 | Hemingway | Martha Gelhorn | Television miniseries |
| 1989 | Life Goes On | Kathryn Henning | Episode: "Paige's Mom" |
| 1989 | China Beach | Cat Von Steeger | Episodes: "How to Stay Alive in Vietnam (Parts 1 & 2)" |
| 1990 | American Dreamer | Jessica | Episode: Pilot |
| 1990–1992 | The Trials of Rosie O'Neill | Doreen Morrison | |
| 1993 | L.A. Law | Ms. Mitchell | Episode: "Leap of Faith" |
| 1993 | Sisters | Barbara Buckley | Episode: "The Good Daughter" |
| 1994 | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | Doctor Renhol | Episode: "Equilibrium" |
| 1994 | Roseanne | Mrs. Simms | Episode: "White Men Can Kiss" |
| 1995 | Murder, She Wrote | Lucy Hedrix | Episode: "Shooting in Rome" |
| 1995 | High Society | Tippi Von Schlaugger | Episode: "The Naked and the Deadline" |
| 1996 | Murder One | Vivien Barone | Episode: "Chapter Ten" |
| 1996 | Frasier | Pamela | Episode: "A Lilith Thanksgiving" |
| 1998 | Michael Hayes | Madeline | Episodes: "Imagine (Parts 1 & 2) |
| 1999 | Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke | Barbara Hutton | Television miniseries |
| 1999 | Legacy | Georgina Winters | 4 episodes |
| 2000–2001 | Son of the Beach | Mayor Anita Massengil | |
| 2002 | Philly | Carolyn Minelli | Episode: "Lies of Minelli" |
| 2002 | The Practice | Judge Samantha Cooke | Episode: "Eat and Run" |
| 2002 | Girls Club | Meredith Holt | 4 episodes |
| 2004 | It's All Relative | Viveca | Episode: "Ready, Aim, Sing" |
| 2004 | One Life to Live | Eve McBain | |
| 2004 | NYPD Blue | Defense Attorney | Episode: " Divorce, Detective Style" |
| 2004 | King of Queens | Georgia Boone | 2 episodes |
| 2005 | Jake in Progress | Valerie Page | Episode: "Harpy Birthday" |
| 2005 | Six Feet Under | Victoria | 3 episodes |
| 2005 | Out of Practice | Chef Vivian | Episode: "Key Ingredients" |
| 2005 | Boston Legal | Attorney Kimberly Mellon | Episode: "Truly, Madly, Deeply" |
| 2006 | In Justice | D.A. Margaret Mannheim | Episode: "Another Country" |
| 2006 | The Unit | Dr. Rhea Morrison | Episode: "SERE" |
| 2006 | Saved | Dr. Victoria Cole | Episodes: "Fog" and "Family" |
| 2006 | Desperate Housewives | Vera Keck | Episode: "Like It Was" |
| 2007 | Psych | Edna Crocker | Episode: "Forget Me Not" |
| 2010 | The Good Wife | Georgia McGowen | Episode: "Cleaning House" |
| 2011 | Law and Order: Special Victims Unit | Elaine Frye Cavanaugh | Episode: "Totem" |
| 2011 | How to be a Gentleman | Episode: "How to Attend Your Ex-Fiance's Wedding" | |
| 2012 | Perception | Irene Reardon | Episodes: "Nemesis", "Kilimanjaro" |
| 2015 | NCIS | Ambassador Olivia Edmunds | Episodes: "Patience" |
| 2016 | Rosewood | Esther Wilford | Episode: "Hydrocephalus and Hard Knocks" |
| 2010–2016 | Royal Pains | Ellen Collins | 9 episodes |
| 2016 | Once Upon a Time | Lady Tremaine | Episode: "The Other Shoe" |
| 2016 | Masters of Sex | Nina Clavermore | Episodes: "Outliers", "Topeka" |
| 2016 | Madam Secretary | Arabelle Marsh | Episode: "Tectonic Shift" |
| 2018 | Nashville | Ranch Director | 4 episodes |
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | The Hotel New Hampshire | Mother | |
| 1985 | Marie | Toni Greer | |
| 1985 | Looking Back in Anger | Allison Porter | Television Film |
| 1986 | One Police Plaza | Erica | Television Film |
| 1988 | Cocktail | Bonnie | |
| 1988 | Young Guns | Mallory | |
| 1990 | A Killer Among Us | Joanna Westrope | Television Film |
| 1990 | Close Encounter | Andrea Griffin | Television Film |
| 1992 | The Presence | Diana | Television Film |
| 1993 | Revenge on the Highway | Vi Sams | Television Film |
| 1993 | A Family Torn Apart | Barbara Forester | Television film |
| 1993 | Gloria Vane | Doreen | Television film |
| 1994 | Cries from the Heart | Ms. Tolbert | Television film |
| 1995 | Miami Rhapsody | Gynecologist | |
| 1995 | The Avenging Angel | Rebecca Heaton | Television film |
| 1996 | My Son is Innocent | Lisa Eubanks | Television film |
| 1996 | Last Exit to Earth | Elder | Television film |
| 1996 | Mother, May I Sleep with Danger? | Jessica Lewsohn | Television film |
| 1998 | Without Limits | Elfriede Prefontaine | |
| 2002 | Pumpkin | Chippy McDuffy | |
| 2002 | Dragonfly | Flora | |
| 2004 | Combustion | Mayor Wallker | Television film |
| 2007 | Freedom Writers | Karin Polachek | |
| 2008 | Brothel | Priscilla | |
| 2009 | Legally Blondes | Headmistress Higgins | |
| 2014 | Gone Girl | Marybeth Elliott | |
| 2017 | A Cure for Wellness | Hollis |
