Lisa Banes Biography – Lisa Banes Wiki
Lisa Banes was 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 the film, she has appeared in Cocktail (1988), Freedom Writers (2007), Gone Girl (2014), and Hollis in A Cure for Wellness (2016). 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, she had regular roles as Doreen Morrison in The Trials of Rosie O’Neill starring Sharon Gless, and as Mayor Anita Massengill 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 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.
Banes also starred as Mrs. Berry in The Hotel New Hampshire (1984), Bonnie in Cocktail (1988), Flora in Dragonfly (2002), and Christina Ricci’s mother in Pumpkin (2002). In 2014, she featured in David Fincher’s Gone Girl as Marybeth Elliott, mother of Amy Elliott (Rosamund Pike). She studied acting at the Juilliard School in New York City.
On June 4, 2021, Banes was struck by a motorist on a scooter in a hit-and-run accident in New York City. She was admitted to Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital with a severe brain injury. After ten days, she succumbed to the injuries.
Lisa Banes Age
She was born on July 9, 1955 in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States and died on June 14, 2021. She was aged 65.
Lisa Banes Partner/ Married
She was married to Kathryn Kranhold, her wife, who is a contributing reporter for the Center for Public Integrity. They resided in Los Angeles.
Lisa Banes Death
Banes died on Monday, June 14, 2021, at Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital ten days after she suffered an accident. She was injured by a hit-and-run driver in New York City. Her manager, David Williams, said Banes was hit as she was crossing Amsterdam Avenue on the way to visit The Juilliard School, her alma mater.
Actor Seth McFarlane said he was deeply saddened at the death of Banes, whom he worked with on his TV series “The Orville.”
Lisa Banes Cause of Death
She died after suffering injuries of an accident caused by a hit and run driver as she was crossing the road. she was 65 years.
