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Lisa Datz is a bi-coastal, critically acclaimed, actor, director, writer, producer and voice over artist.
With a diverse career spanning film, television, and theatre, Lisa made her Broadway debut at a young age in the Tony winning original cast of Titanic, The Full Monty opposite Patrick Wilson, Off-Broadway as Yitzak opposite John Cameron Mitchell, and later Michael Cerveris in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and received rave reviews and a Jeff Award nomination for Violet in the title role.
She starred in the Pulitzer Prize nominated play, Three Days of Rain, opposite Silas Weir Mitchell and Sasha Roiz from Grimm (NBC), and played leading roles in the critically acclaimed For the Record series in both Los Angeles and at the SXSW Film Festival in FTR: Tarantino and FTR: Paul Thomas Anderson, among many regional theatre credits.
Her television and film work highlights include FBI: Most Wanted opposite Dylan McDermott (CBS), Elementary (CBS) opposite Lucy Liu, Bones opposite John Boyd (FOX), Castle opposite Nathan Fillion (ABC), Time Out of Mind directed by Oscar nominated director Oren Moverman, starring Richard Gere, the live action feature Sponge Bob 2 (Paramount), The Perfect Holiday opposite Gabrielle Union, and creating the role of 'Olga' in the developmental reading of Wanda & Sheneneh written by Oscar winner Jamie Foxx at Sony Pictures.
She can be seen in Motion Capture and voice as one of the female leads, "Jessica LeClerk", in the massively successful online video game, Red Dead Redemption 2, and is featured in the most recent Gotham Knights from Warner Brothers Games
Over the pandemic, Lisa used this time to hone her directing & writing skills on her short film/proof of concept pilot Life of Riley, written & directed by Lisa, and produced by her production company, Datz a Wrap, in association with Intent Entertainment and Emmy winning producer, Erin Glass (NBC's Give)
Life of Riley stars Sergio Carlo (Andy Garcia's The Lost City), Silas Weir Mitchell (Grimm, Prison Break), Akende Munalula (Deputy on FOX, Tyler Perry's Boo2: A Madea Halloween), Dionne GIpson (NCIS, Black Dynamite), and Lisa Datz (FBI: Most Wanted, Elementary).
A former competitive figure skater and current equestrian, when Lisa's not acting & directing, you'll find her horseback riding, skating, hip hop dancing, by the ocean or hiking, practicing Spanish, and traveling the globe, surrounded by her close family and friends.
