Lisa Lackey

Lisa Lackey (born Elizabeth Lackey, March 2, 1971, in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian actress, 5′ 9″ (175 cm) tall, who grew up in Orange, New South Wales, and attended Orange High School. She began modeling as a child, left home at 17 to pursue acting in Sydney, and landed her breakout role as Roxanne "Roxy" Miller on the Australian soap opera Home and Away (1992–1995) at age 21, alongside Simon Baker. She moved to the United States in 1995 to pursue her career in Hollywood and retired from acting around 2013. Her most notable film credits include Carol in Mulholland Drive (2001, directed by David Lynch), Friend at Leo's Party in Planet of the Apes (2001, directed by Tim Burton), Dr. Jessica Platt-Trenton in New Alcatraz (2001), and Fia Forbes in The Last Sin Eater (2007). On television she is best known as Janice Parkman in Heroes (2006–2010, 18 episodes, NBC), the lead in Just Cause (2002–2003, 22 episodes), a supporting role in the final season of NYPD Blue (2004–2005), Cindy Thomas in The Pretender (1997), Alexis in Flipper (1995, 15 episodes), and the angel Verchiel in Fallen (2006, ABC Family), with additional credits in House (2011), Bones (2008), Medium (2005), CSI: Miami (2004), Sliders (1995), and Spellbinder (1995).

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