Lori Petty Filmography

Born:: March 23, 1963 in Chattanooga, TN
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: An actress whose love-her-or-hate-her screen presence can often be traced to the disastrous 1995 comic-book adaptation that should have been her breakout role, Lori Petty has endured the lingering failure of Tank Girl to prove herself capable of much more than battling maniacal super-villains with...Read More

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The Poker House

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Selma Blair, Jennifer Lawrence, Bokeem Woodbine, David Alan Grier, Sophia Bairley

Synopsis: Actress-turned-director Lori Petty makes her feature directorial debut with this period drama set in 1976 and exploring a typical day in the life of a decidedly atypical teen named Agnes. Some folks have the luxury of living each day to the fullest, but for Agnes every day is a grueling struggle Read More

2007
Prey for Rock & Roll

Actors: Gina Gershon, Drea de Matteo, Lori Petty, Shelly Cole, Marc Blucas

Synopsis: Jacki (Gina Gershon, who also served as a producer) has always wanted to be a rock star. But after years of struggling to make it, she's turning 40, and she's thinking of giving it up. "Do you ever think about being 50 or 60 years old, hauling our gear around, passing out flyers, fighting with Read More

10/3/03
NYPD Blue: I Kid You Not

Actors: Henry Simmons

Synopsis: Things get personal for 15th precinct skipper Tony Rodriguez (Esai Morales), who, while investigating a drug-related murder, comes across the body of his ex-wife, Angela. In another development, a social worker who assigned a baby to an unfit mother may be prosecuted for second-degree murder by Read More

2003
ER: Orion in the Sky

Synopsis: Mekhi Phifer makes his first series appearance as Gregory Pratt, a remarkably self-confident intern who is supervised by Greene (Anthony Edwards) during the latter's last day with the ER. Pratt's zealous eagerness prompts the terminally ill Greene to rethink how he will spend his final days on Read More

2002
MacArthur Park

Actors: Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Brandon Adams, B-Real, Badazz

Synopsis: Playwright Tyrone Atkins lost a promising career in theater and film -- as well as his home, his belongings, and (for a time) his freedom -- when he became addicted to crack cocaine. After conquering his habit, Atkins used his experiences living on the streets as the basis for this story about a Read More

2001
Route 666

Actors: Lou Diamond Phillips, Lori Petty, Alex McArthur

Synopsis: The brutal murder of a prison chain gang reverberates through time, leaving an unsuspecting pair of special agents doing battle against the forces of the undead in this tale of highway horror from director William Wesley. When a pair of mafia hitmen force special agents Jack (Lou Diamond Phillips) Read More

2001
Clubland

Synopsis: Noted record producer and musician Glen Ballard (who has collaborated with Alanis Morissette, Dave Matthews Band, No Doubt, and Aerosmith) wrote this drama which offers an insider's look at the long, hard road to the top of the music business. Kennedy (Jimmy Tuckett) is the frontman of a Read More

2000
Firetrap

Actors: Dean Cain, Lori Petty, Richard Tyson

Synopsis: A criminal is forced to become a hero in this action drama. Max Hopper (Dean Cain) is a successful burglar who has decided it's time to leave his life of crime behind him. But Hopper is lured into pulling one last heist when he learns about a valuable new computer chip being created by a Read More

2000
Relax ... It's Just Sex

Actors: Jennifer Tilly, Mitchell Anderson, Cynda Williams, Lori Petty, Serena Scott Thomas

Synopsis: Tara (Jennifer Tilly) hosts a dinner party. When she discusses the HIV-positive results of her lover's brother, others join in with their opinions on AIDS. Black artist Buzz (T.C. Carson), brought to the party as the date of Vincey (Mitchell Anderson), quickly becomes a twosome with Javi (Eddie Garcia Read More

3/12/99
Blood Money

Actors: Michael Ironside, Lori Petty, Currie Graham

Synopsis: In this tense crime thriller, Candy (Lori Petty) is an exotic dancer who witnesses a murderous drug deal by a high-level Mafia kingpin. The police have been looking to put the gangster behind bars for years, and Candy's testimony represents the best chance they have to finally nail him. Police Read More

1999
Star Trek: Voyager: Gravity

Actors: Roxann Dawson

1999
Serial Bomber

Actors: Lori Petty, Jason London

Synopsis: This direct-to-video thriller stars Jason London as a grungy-looking Seattle psychopath setting off bombs so as not to lose his Japanese sweetheart. Lori Petty, sporting a truly odd coiffure which must be her hair growing back from Tank Girl, plays a hard-bitten FBI agent determined to take London Read More

1996
Tank Girl

Actors: Lori Petty, Malcolm McDowell, Ice-T, Naomi Watts, Don Harvey

Synopsis: Based on a popular British cult comic book, this film is the story of a futuristic feminist superhero and her fight to preserve the environment against an evil government bureaucracy. The action is set in the year 2033, after an ecological disaster of drought and pollution has ravaged the Read More

1995
In the Army Now

Actors: Pauly Shore, Andy Dick, Lori Petty, David Alan Grier, Esai Morales

Synopsis: Comedian Pauly Shore goes to boot camp in this comedy adventure set in Chad. It was filmed on location in the California and Arizona deserts. Shore is cast as Bones, a dreamer who wants to open his own stereo shop with his best friend Jack. To earn the cash, Bones talks Jack into joining the Army Read More

1994
The Glass Shield

Actors: Michael Boatman, Lori Petty, Ice Cube, Michael Ironside, Richard Anderson

Synopsis: In this crime drama, an honest lawman has to decide where his loyalties lie in a corrupt system. All his life, J.J. (Michael Boatman) has dreamed of being a cop, and after graduating from the Police Academy, he gets his wish, becoming the first African-American policeman based out of Los Angeles' Read More

1994
Demolition Man

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock, Nigel Hawthorne, Benjamin Bratt

Synopsis: The plot of this action film begins in 1996, with Los Angeles in a violence-crazed conflagration. One of the LAPD's most notorious cops, John Spartan (Sylvester Stallone), known as "the demolition man," is in hot pursuit of blonde-haired psychopath Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes), who is so nasty he Read More

1993
Poetic Justice

Actors: Billy Zane, Janet Jackson, Tupac Shakur, Regina King, Joe Torry, Tyra Ferrell

Synopsis: R&B star Janet Jackson made an impressive film debut in Poetic Justice as Justice, a hairdresser at a small salon in South Central Los Angeles. Justice uses her poetry to deal with her grief after her boyfriend is killed in a shooting incident at a drive-in. Hired to work at a hair stylists' event Read More

1993
Free Willy

Actors: Jason James Richter, Jayne Atkinson, Lori Petty, August Schellenberg, Michael Madsen, Michael Ironside

Synopsis: The touching story of a boy and his killer whale made this family drama a surprise box office hit. Jesse (Jason James Richter) is a kid without parents who has bounced from one foster home to another and is living on the streets. One night, he's caught spraying graffiti with his friend Perry (Michael Bacall Read More

1993
A League of Their Own

Actors: Geena Davis, Tom Hanks, Lori Petty, Madonna, Jon Lovitz, Rosie O'Donnell, Bill Pullman

Synopsis: The All-American Girls' Professional Baseball League was founded in 1943, when most of the men of baseball-playing age were far away in Europe and Asia fighting World War II. The league flourished until after World War II, when, with the men's return, the league was consigned to oblivion. Director Penny Marshall Read More

7/1/92
Point Break

Actors: Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Lori Petty, Gary Busey, John C. McGinley

Synopsis: Kathryn Bigelow's fourth action film follows FBI agent Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves) as he goes undercover to infiltrate a cache of Southern California surfers suspected of robbing banks. Utah, a former football player, is assigned to Los Angeles. There, four bank robbers, who wear rubber masks and Read More

7/12/91
Cadillac Man

Actors: Robin Williams, Tim Robbins, Pamela Reed, Fran Drescher, Zack Norman

Synopsis: Robin Williams stars in this oddball comedy about a fast-talking car salesman who is down on his luck and in over his head until an extreme situation forces him to use his sales skills to save lives. Joey O'Brien (Williams) is the stereotypical car salesman: enterprising, aggressive, and desperate Read More

5/18/90
Perry Mason: The Case of the Musical Murder

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason and his assistant help a stage manager who is the prime suspect in the murder of the director who recently fired him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1989
Police Story: Monster Manor

Synopsis: Not really a TV movie, Monster Manor was a two-hour installment of the brief 1988 revival of the old Police Story anthology series. The titular manor is an allegedly haunted mansion in the center of a large city. It is inhabited by a group of police officers who use the mansion as a "rave" site Read More

1988
Bates Motel

Actors: Bud Cort, Jason Bateman, Moses Gunn

Synopsis: This busted TV pilot film is set in the sinister family-operated motel made infamous by Hitchcock's Psycho. Former mental patient Bud Cort inherits the motel from its cross-dressing owner Norman Bates (played in Psycho by Anthony Perkins, who wisely passed up this TV film). With the help of Read More

1987