Lisa ZaneFilmography

Dinotopia [TV Series]

Actors: Michael Brandon, Erik Von Detten, Shiloh Strong, Jonathan Hyde, Georgina Rylance

Synopsis: Spun off from the Emmy-winning TV miniseries of the same name (which in turn was based on a series of children's novel by James Gurney) , the weekly ABC fantasy-adventure series Dinotopia picked up where its predecessor left off, albeit with an entirely new cast. Stranded in an idyllic lost land Read More

Monkeybone

Actors: Brendan Fraser, Bridget Fonda, Whoopi Goldberg, Chris Kattan

Synopsis: This feverishly energetic comedy combines stop-motion animation and live action from director Henry Selick, creator of The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) and James and the Giant Peach (1996). Brendan Fraser stars as Stu Miley, a cartoonist who created a randy monkey character called Monkeybone Read More

Missing Pieces

Actors: Lisa Zane, James Coburn, Paul Kersey, Finn Carter, William R. Moses

Synopsis: Based on Atticus, a novel by Ron Hansen, this Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation stars James Coburn as widowed Colorado rancher Atticus Cody. In the months since Atticus' wife was killed in a car accident caused by his artist son Scott (Paul Kersey), the boy has ached for his father's forgiveness. Read More

Stolen from the Heart

Actors: Tracey Gold, Lisa Zane, William R. Moses, Barbara Mandrell

Synopsis: In a real change-of-pace role, Barbara Mandrell is cast as Texas widow Ruth Wagner, the mother of Leslie Wanger (Tracey Gold), who is expecting a baby of her own. Both mother and daughter are plunged into despair when Leslie's infant son is kidnapped, almost literally from the womb, by Read More

Wicked Ways

Actors: Rebecca De Mornay, Michael Rooker

Synopsis: A couple's jealousy and infidelity turns violent, with another man caught in the middle, in this adult-themed thriller. Ruth (Rebecca DeMornay) and Matt (Michael Rooker) do not have the healthiest relationship of any married couple you might meet. While their sexual passion for each other runs Read More

The Pact

Actors: Rider Strong, John Heard, Lisa Zane

Synopsis: Rodney Gibbons directs this thriller concerning a young member of the witness protection program. After seeing his parents murdered by the Mafia, Greg ($Adam Frost} is enrolled in an exclusive prep school. His new friend Lenny Rider Strong may very well be the young hit man the mob has sent to Read More

The Nurse

Actors: Lisa Zane, Michael Fairman, John Stockwell, Janet Gunn

Synopsis: A young employee of a large corporation (William R. Moses) finds out that a fellow employee has been stealing money from the company. He informs his superiors of the man's embezzlement, which results in the embezzler killing his wife and his son, then shooting himself. The embezzler's daughter, a Read More

Profit [TV Series]

Actors: Adrian Pasdar, Lisa Zane, Keith Szarabajka, Lisa Darr

ER: Full Moon, Saturday Night

Synopsis: Michael Ironside makes his first appearance as new ER chief Dr. William Swift, who immediately sets the staff on its ear with his bizarre management style and intense perfectionism. Meanwhile, the rivalry between med student Carter (Noah Wyle) and Deb (Ming-Na) reaches a new height of absurdity. Read More

ER: House of Cards

Synopsis: New ER boss Dr. Swift (Michael Ironside) requests (read: "demands") that Greene discuss the OR death of Jodi O'Brien death before a hospital conference. Deb's (Ming-Na) rush to pile up more procedures than Carter (Noah Wyle) results in serious error. Ross (George Clooney) grows ever closer to Read More

ER: Men Plan, God Laughs

Synopsis: In wake of the ongoing crisis involving his ailing mother, the customarily brusque and arrogant Benton (Eriq La Salle) astonishes everyone with his courtesy, consideration, and compassion. Meanwhile, Ross (George Clooney) is ordered to see a psychiatrist after punching a patient, and also agrees Read More

ER: Sleepless in Chicago

Synopsis: Despite orders from Hicks (CCH Pounder), Benton (Eriq La Salle) is determined to stay awake throughout a 48-hour shift, with potentially disastrous results. Elsewhere, a terminally ill patient (Sanford Meisner) is inadvertently given a brief "reprieve" by Carter (Noah Wyle). Ross (George Clooney) Read More

ER: Make of Two Hearts

Synopsis: Carol (Julianna Margulies) takes a more than professional interest in Tatiana (Milana Vayntrub), a six-year-old Russian girl with AIDS who has been adopted -- and then abandoned -- by an American family. Overachiever Deb (Ming-Na) accidentally ingests some candy-coated LSD. And despite their Read More

ER: The Birthday Party

Synopsis: Hicks (CCH Pounder) warns Benton (Eriq La Salle) that he's spending too much time worrying over his ailing mother and not enough time concentrating on his job. Ross (George Clooney) has a violent showdown with an abusive father. The rivalry between Carter (Noah Wyle) and Deb (Ming-Na) intensifies. Read More

ER: Long Day's Journey

Synopsis: Amidst a heavy caseload including alleged parental abuse, suicide, and a teenage prostitute with aids, Ross (George Clooney) makes the acquaintance of Diane Leeds (Lisa Zane) from Risk Management. Meanwhile, Lewis (Sherry Stringfield) defends herself against the charges leveled by Kayson (Sam Anderson Read More

Toughguy

Synopsis: In this thriller, an attempted variation of Roman Polanski's Repulsion, a young woman is repeatedly threatened by a violent intruder. The pretty woman had a husband, but lost him after he killed her lover and then himself in front of her. Now she is constantly harassed and approached at work, but Read More

Her Deadly Rival

Actors: Harry Hamlin, Annie Potts, Lisa Zane, Robert C. Treveiler, Tommy Hinkley

Synopsis: In this made-for-television drama, a man's life falls completely to pieces when an obsessed woman begins to stalk him. Even his marriage crumbles from the strain. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

ER: February Fifth, 1995

Synopsis: Morganstern (William H. Macy) offers Greene (Anthony Edwards) a permanent position as attending physician -- prompting an unexpected response from Greene's wife, Jenn (Christine Harnos). Elsewhere, a woman with breast cancer demands that she be given a painless death in the ER, while Carol (Julianna Margulies Read More

ER: Motherhood

Synopsis: Oscar-winning filmmaker Quentin Tarantino directed this episode, which contains all manner of characteristic black comedy touches, not to mention Tarantino's trademarked use of a popular 1960s songs to comment upon the action. The story occurs on Mother's Day, when the long-suffering Lewis (Sherry Stringfield Read More

ER: Love Among the Ruins

Synopsis: A visitor to the ER (Catherine Lloyd Burns) must make a crucial decision after her boyfriend commits suicide, while novice nun Sister Elizabeth (Amy Ryan) likewise finds herself at an emotional crossroads. Elsewhere, the ER staff (and the viewers) discovers that Carter (Noah Wyle) is from an Read More

Terrified

Actors: Heather Graham, Lisa Zane

Synopsis: Heather Graham stars as Olive, a woman whose husband discovers one day that she has taken a lover; the husband kills him, then himself. While still reeling from this trauma, Olive becomes the object of a crazed stalker, who invades her home, attacks her and then disappears. Olive's terror is only Read More

Baby Face Nelson

Actors: C. Thomas Howell, Lisa Zane, Doug Wert, Martin Kove, F. Murray Abraham

Synopsis: This exciting crime drama recounts the life and times of one of the Prohibition's most famous and feared gangsters as he engages in a territorial battle with his nemesis Al Capone. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Floundering

Actors: James LeGros, John Cusack, Ethan Hawke, Lisa Zane, Maritza Rivera, Kim Wayans, Steve Buscemi

Synopsis: Noted independent film producer Peter McCarthy made his writing and directing debut (Angie Brown served as co-director) with this surreal comedy. John Boyz (James LeGros) is an aimless sad sack who is wandering Los Angeles in the wake of the 1992 riots. John is in an unclear state of mind; he Read More

Unveiled

Actors: Lisa Zane, Nick Chinlund, Whip Hubley, Martha Gehman, Amidou Benmesuoud

Synopsis: An American embassy official convinces a beautiful tourist in Morocco to risk her life in order to act as bait for an internationally feared serial killer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Dark Reflection

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare

Actors: Robert Englund, Lisa Zane, Shon Greenblatt, Lezlie Deane, Rick Logan

Synopsis: The producers insisted that this sixth entry in the Nightmare on Elm Street series marked the last; no points for guessing that additional sequels followed. This time, homicidal wraith Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) decides to extend his reign of terror past Elm Street. His agent-on-earth is his Read More

Babe Ruth

Actors: Bruce Weitz, Lisa Zane, Donald Moffat, Brian Doyle-Murray

Synopsis: Babe Ruth is a made-for-TV biopic about the titular baseball legend, here played by Stephen Lang. The film covers the events of Babe's life from his orphanage childhood to his retirement from baseball in 1935. Recounted are Babe's two marriages, the first to the benighted Helen Woodford (Yvonne Suhor Read More

Bad Influence

Actors: Rob Lowe, James Spader, Lisa Zane, Christian Clemenson, Kathleen Wilhoite

Synopsis: Successful LA marketing analyst Michael Boll (James Spader) seemingly has it all-except a sense of self-confidence. Enigmatic drifter Alex (Rob Lowe) enters Michael's life and immediately begins to exert a negative influence. As Michael's self-esteem zooms (aided by generous dollops of sex and Read More

Femme Fatale

Actors: Colin Firth, Lisa Zane, Billy Zane, Scott Wilson, Lisa Blount

Synopsis: An independent American thriller of identity and personality. Joe Prince (Colin Firth) is a park ranger and an artist who falls deeply in love with Cynthia (Lisa Zane), a mysterious woman he meets in his park. They are (too) hastily married, and the day before the honeymoon Joe finds Cynthia's Read More

The Passion of Martin

Actors: Charles Hayward, Lisa Zane

Gross Anatomy

Actors: Matthew Modine, Daphne Zuniga, Christine Lahti, Todd Field, John Scott Clough

Synopsis: Gross Anatomy is to medical school what Paper Chase was to law school, with perhaps a little less sobriety. Mathew Modine plays a blue-collar kid attending a posh school of medicine, where everyone--teacher and student alike--seems to be well above Modine's social strata. Perhaps as a reaction to Read More

The Heart of Dixie

Actors: Ally Sheedy, Virginia Madsen, Phoebe Cates, Treat Williams, Don Michael Paul

Synopsis: Set at a Southern college during the 1950s, three co-eds (Ally Sheedy, Virginia Madsen and Phoebe Cates) re-assess their values in light of the burgeoning civil rights movement. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Pucker up and Bark Like a Dog

Synopsis: A socially isolated and extremely shy Los Angeles painter finds his dream girl in the form of a struggling actress and finds himself at last finding the confidence to exhibit his work in this off-beat romantic comedy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More