

Walter, alongside the rest of the show's cast, won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series at the 2023 ceremony. Since 2021, Walter appears in the ABC comedy Abbott Elementary as second grade teacher Melissa Schemmenti. In August 2014, Walter quit in order to focus on her acting career. The program aired for three hours each Saturday and Sunday. īeginning in May 2011, Walter hosted The Fabulous Lisa Ann Walter Show, a talk show on the Los Angeles radio station KFI. Her comic memoir, The Best Thing About My Ass Is That It's Behind Me, was published in May 2011. It was far from her usual role, as she played a very serious character in a drama. On December 19, 2011, she appeared on Rizzoli & Isles as a ballet coach, J.J. She has developed a series for the Oxygen network called Dance Your Ass Off. She made it to the final three but was eliminated in the sixth episode. In early 2008, Walter was in the comedy film Drillbit Taylor, and also starred on the VH1 reality series Celebracadabra, in which celebrities competed to see who was the best magician among them.
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Later that May she served as a judge on the ABC reality TV show The Next Best Thing, which searched for the best celebrity impersonators in America. In early 2007, Walter had a supporting role as Mabel the bartender in the MyNetworkTV soap opera Watch Over Me. Prior to that, she played Whoopi Goldberg's tarty sidekick Claudine in Eddie (1996). In addition to Bruce Almighty (2003) and Shall We Dance (2004), Walter co-starred in the Disney film The Parent Trap (1998) in the remake of the original classic, she appeared as Chessy, the nanny to Dennis Quaid's character's daughter, who was played by a young Lindsay Lohan.

Walter also co-starred in the Bravo series Breaking News and in the NBC sitcom Emeril.

Career Īfter five years of standup comedy, Walter starred in her own Fox Network comedy series, My Wildest Dreams (1995), followed by an ABC sitcom, Life's Work (1996–1997), which she both created and starred in. She graduated with a theater degree from Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., in 1983. The family lived in different places following their father's work, and their childhood homes included Germany and the suburbs of Washington, D.C. She and her older sister, Laura, are the children of a geophysicist British father who was born in France of Alsatian descent and a substitute-teacher mother who was born in Sicily. Walter was born on August 3, 1963, in Silver Spring, Maryland. She also created and starred in the 1996–1997 sitcom, Life's Work, and appeared in such films as Bruce Almighty, Shall We Dance, and War of the Worlds. Her other reality television work includes her stint as a judge on ABC's reality television series The Next Best Thing: Who Is the Greatest Celebrity Impersonator?, and as winning a celebrity edition of the game show The Weakest Link. She was formerly the creator and executive producer of Oxygen network reality weight-loss competition series, Dance Your Ass Off. In December 2007, she merged her agency with Seymore Butts' Lighthouse Agency, and is now managing the new agency.Lisa Ann Walter (born August 3, 1963) is an American actress, comedian and television producer, best known for her roles as Chessy in the romantic comedy film The Parent Trap and Melissa Schemmenti on the ABC mockumentary sitcom Abbott Elementary. In November 2006, Lisa Ann started a talent agency, Clear Talent Management, and in August 2007 she changed her business to Lisa Ann's Talent Management. In 2004, she announced that she had returned to performing. Lisa began working in the industry as an agent. This was followed by a divorce and the sale of her day spa business. Lisa then announced that she was quitting dancing, because she had decided to settle down and focus on her marriage and her day spa business venture. She spent several years touring as a feature dancer at clubs around the country. In July 1994, she became an adult actress, but quit in 1997. Lisa Ann began erotic dancing about 1990 to pay her way through college, where she became a certified dental assistant. She is currently signed to the Brazzer's network, the most popular web based pornography company in America at this time. Popular during the 90's, she slipped away from the porn business around the same time and has recently made a comeback to porn in the 2000's, starring prominently in web based features on sites such as and. Lisa Ann (born in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA) is a pornographic actress.
