Lisa Foster is a retired Canadian actress,

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, and

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. She was the star of the 1983 film, ''

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''.

Career

Films

Lisa began her professional career at the age of thirteen in Edmonton as a young performer. A few years later, still in her teens, she moved to New York and studied acting at HB Studio with

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and Elizabeth Dillon and took

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dance with Buck Heller. A couple of years later she returned to Toronto to model and act. She was a photographic model in Toronto and

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and graced fashion magazines like '' Clin D'Oeil'' as well as ads for

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. She got a three-picture deal through producer

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while in Toronto and was Mila in the mid-1980s film '' The Blade Master'' which was later lampooned as an episode of the television series ''

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''. She then played the lead of Fanny Hill in the movie of the same name 1983 movie ''

'' which also starred

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and

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. Later on in her life she has directed most of her attention to behind the scenes work where she was proficient as

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and finally as

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on the award-winning political panel show, '' Week in Review'' (KCLA). She began her visual effects career at

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as part of the complex restoration team assigned to the major task of digitally reconstructing the

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animated film ''

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'' (1937). Following the success of these new digital techniques, she went on to work as a technical artist on such films as ''

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'' (1993), ''

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'' (1993) and the

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-nominated (for visual effects) film ''

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'' (1993). As staff animator at

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Imageworks, Foster lent her skills to such films as ''

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'' (1995), ''

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'' (1994), ''

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'' (1996), ''

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'' (1995), '' Hideaway'' (1995) and ''

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'' (1996). Some of the films that include her visual effects work are ''Die Hard with a Vengeance'', ''James and the Giant Peach'' and ''Virtuosity''. She was last known to be directing the 3D animated series ''Thesaurus Rex'' aimed at encouraging and challenging visual and vocabulary concepts in preschoolers.

Video games

From there she moved into the game arena, first as a CG supervisor for

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's mega-hit game ''

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'', in which she also directed two key cinematic sequences, and then as a CG supervisor and Technical Director for the games '' Evil Dead: Hail to the King'' and

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's ''

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''. After a stint as Executive Producer for the broadcast design arm of Duck Soup in

, Lisa took the Senior Producer position at Phantagram Entertainment. Games included: '' The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers'' based on the

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film for

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and '' Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders''. In 2009 she became the Core Systems and User Generated Content Producer for LEGO's multimillion-dollar MMO, LEGO Universe.

Filmography

As actress

*''Country Gold'' (1982) as Mrs. Vogel *'' Ator 2: The Blade Master'' (1982) as Mila *''

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'' (1982) as Lena *''

'' (1983) as Fanny Hill *''

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'' (1985) as Sherry Lomax * ''The Hitchhiker'' (1985, 1 episode) as Patty *''The Jitters'' (1989) as Jennifer * ''The Twilight Zone'' (1989, 1 episode) as Nurse Carla *''Come Spy with Me'' (1989, television film) as Charlie *''Separated by Murder'' (1984, television film) as Donna Dupree * ''A Letter from Death Row'' (1989) as Charlene Fitzpatrick * ''For the Cause'' (2000) as Systems operator

As visual effects artist

* ''Cliffhanger'' (1993) * ''Super Mario Bros.'' (1993) * ''Coneheads'' (1993) * ''

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'' (1994) * ''Wolf'' (1994) * ''Hideaway'' (1995) - Technical director * ''

'' (1995) * ''

'' (1995) - Technical director * ''James and the Giant Peach'' (1996) * ''

'' (1996) * ''Moomins and the Winter Wonderland'' (2017) - Animator

As video game developer

* ''Parasite Eve'' (1998) - CGI supervisor * '' Evil Dead: Hail to the King'' (2000) - CGI supervisor * ''The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers'' (2002) - Producer * '' Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders'' (2004) - Senior producer * '' Lego Universe'' (2010) - Systems producer

References

External links

*
Lisa Foster's autobiographical page

a.k.a writer has an interview with Lisa Foster
{{DEFAULTSORT:Foster, Lisa Living people English film actresses Actresses from London Year of birth missing (living people)