Lisa’s first professional venture was a play Time Out For Ginger with Art Carney. After that she worked at the esteemed Theatre Company of Boston in such plays as Dirty Hands (with Robert Duval) and The Cocktail Party (with Dustin Hoffman). The Maids, Marat Sade (she played Charlotte Corday). Phaedre, Who’s Afarid of Virginia Woolf, The Great Fugue, and Measure For Measure among others. At Hartford Stage she played Irina in Three Sisters, and at the Gutherie she played Doll Common in The Alchemist and in Ardele. Off Broad Way she was in Nobody Hears A Broken Drum and To Be Young Gifted And Black. Her day time serials include Dark Shadows (Sabrina Stuart) and One Life To Live (Susan Barry). Her movies Rolling Thunder, Eating, House Of Dark Shadows, The Money, The Return, Mr. Mom, Last Of The Romantics.  Her TV movies include The James Dean Story (Ethel Dean), Atlanta Child Murders, Who Will Love My Children, When The Bough Breaks. She also appears in episodic television shows such as Moonlighting, Hart Of Dixie, Hellenger’s Law, Right To Kill, Quincey, Fantasy Island. At the Greenway Court Theater in Los Angeles she starred in Glass Menagerie, Bad Hurt On Cedar Street, All Good Soldiers In The West Wind. Also in Los Angeles, she starred in Night Mother, and A House Not Meant To Stand. At the famed Alley Theatre in Houston she played Linda in Death Of A Salesman and Alice in Lemonade. She is a lifetime member of The Actors Studio and teaches acting there. She is married to actor Steve Mendillo. She has two children Gaby Ebert and Alex Ebert (lead singer in Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros).