Lisa Langlois

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Lisa Langlois b March 15 1959 North Bay Ontario is a Canadian actress who has appeared in movies television and theater Langlois spent her childhood years in Hamilton Ontario where she attended a French language school becoming fluent in French In 1974 she represented Hamilton in the Miss Teen Canada beauty pageant where she finished second Langlois graduated from McMaster University in Hamilton She made her film debut in Claude Chabrols mystery Blood Relatives 1978 opposite Donald Sutherland Chabrol also cast her in his next feature Violette Nozière 1978 Langlois made a number of other films in Canada including the thriller Phobia 1980 directed by John Huston She appeared in another 1980 film Klondike Fever and played leading roles in three films that have acquired cult followings the horror film Happy Birthday to Me 1981 the teen actioner Class of 1984 1982 costarring a young Michael J Fox and the killer rat shocker Deadly Eyes 1982 After this work in Paris and Toronto Langlois moved to Los Angeles to pursue American projects She appeared in two Paramount Pictures comedy features The Man Who Wasnt There 1983 a 3D production and National Lampoons Joy of Sex 1984 directed by Martha Coolidge In 1985 Langlois costarred in the romantic comedy The Sluggers Wife where she played a struggling singer and performed her own musical numbers after auditioning for Quincy Jones She made guest appearances on television programs such as Murder She Wrote in 1986 and she performed on stage in the La Jolla Playhouses production of Once In A Lifetime in 1988 She played the heroine in Roger Cormans horror film The Nest 1988 and costarred in a made for TV movie The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 1989 During the 1990s Langlois moved back to Canada She worked steadily including parts in the action pictures The White Tiger 1995 and The Final Cut 1995 alongside Sam Elliott She made appearances in the television series Beyond Belief Fact or Fiction 1998 Vengeance Unlimited 1999 and Relic Hunter 2000 After a brief hiatus she returned to the Los Angeles stage in 2004 starring in Jungle Express in Malibu Most recently Langlois had a costarring role in The Perfect Marriage 2006 a thriller that premiered on Lifetime Television in 2007 she was asked to perform a recurring role in the TV series The L Word Langlois has a son Emerson Description above from the Wikipedia article Lisa Langlois licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia