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).Banes
was born in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. She studied acting at the Juilliard
School in New York City.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.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 (2012 TV series) 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.
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).Banes
was born in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. She studied acting at the Juilliard
School in New York City.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.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 (2012 TV series) 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.
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