Lisa Jackson (actress)
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Lisa Jackson is an English actress. Recent roles include Imogen Moffat in the Channel 4
Comedy Showcase
sitcom Campus
, Sandra in Mike Bartlett's Love, Love, Love, Janice Pearce in BBC Four
's Dirk Gently
and Joan Helford in Rupert Goold
's production of Time and the Conways
at the National Theatre
. Earlier in her career she appeared in Stephen Fry
's film Bright Young Things
. She trained at LAMDA
.
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...
Comedy Showcase
Comedy Showcase
Comedy Showcase is a series of one-off comedy specials featuring some of Britain's fledgling comedy talent. Its format is reminiscent of the much earlier Comedy Playhouse....
sitcom Campus
Campus (TV series)
Campus is a semi-improvised British sitcom created by the team behind the comedy sketch show Smack the Pony and hospital-based sitcom Green Wing, led by Victoria Pile who acts as co-writer, producer and director...
, Sandra in Mike Bartlett's Love, Love, Love, Janice Pearce in BBC Four
BBC Four
BBC Four is a British television network operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation and available to digital television viewers on Freeview, IPTV, satellite and cable....
's Dirk Gently
Dirk Gently (TV series)
Dirk Gently is a 2010 television drama inspired by Douglas Adams's novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. Broadcast by BBC Four on 16 December 2010 and repeated throughout the Christmas period, it was a pilot episode for a forthcoming television series based on the detective.In the...
and Joan Helford in Rupert Goold
Rupert Goold
Rupert Goold is an English theatre director. He is the artistic director of Headlong Theatre and from 2010 he will be an associate director at the Royal Shakespeare Company.- Early years :...
's production of Time and the Conways
Time and the Conways
Time and the Conways is a British play written by J. B. Priestley in 1937 illustrating J. W. Dunne's Theory Of Time through the experience of a moneyed Yorkshire family, the Conways, over a period of nineteen years from 1919 to 1937...
at the National Theatre
Royal National Theatre
The Royal National Theatre in London is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company...
. Earlier in her career she appeared in Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry
Stephen John Fry is an English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter and film director, and a director of Norwich City Football Club. He first came to attention in the 1981 Cambridge Footlights Revue presentation "The Cellar Tapes", which also...
's film Bright Young Things
Bright Young Things
Bright Young Things is a 2003 British drama film written and directed by Stephen Fry. The screenplay, based on the 1930 novel Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh, provides satirical social commentary about the Bright Young People: young and carefree London aristocrats and bohemians, as well as society in...
. She trained at LAMDA
London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art is a leading British drama school in west London. LAMDA's president is Timothy West and its new principal is Joanna Read, who recently succeeded Peter James...
.