Lisa LaCroix is an Canadian actress and fashion model who began her career in Toronto

Toronto

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, Canada

Canada

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. After training as an actor in New York City

New York City

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's Circle in the Square Theatre School

Circle in the Square Theatre School

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, she returned to Toronto, and starred in numerous Canadian and American television shows and movies. In 1996, she moved to Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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 to focus on American television acting.

In 2000, Lisa became interested in the Human Potential Movement

Human Potential Movement

The Human Potential Movement arose out of the social and intellectual milieu of the 1960s and formed around the concept of cultivating extraordinary potential that its advocates believed to lie largely untapped in all people...

, studied to be a business coach, moved to the San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

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 and began a private practice training and coaching business people in 2001. She cofounded Paragon Strategies in 2004 with two other trainers from San Francisco, which presently serves various businesses worldwide in optimizing their employee satisfaction and productivity.

Her father is the famous photographer and jazz musician Pat LaCroix

Pat LaCroix

Patrick LaCroix, , better known by his stage name Pat LaCroix, is a Canadian musician and photographer. His career began with some Canadian TV and radio; but not before he was part of The Four Winds vocal quartet with Gordon Lightfoot a fellow student at Westlake College of music in Los Angeles...

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Filmography

• Divided Loyalties (1989)
• E.N.G.
  E.N.G.
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  • The Dancer and the Dance (1990) TV Episode .... Nancy Chou
  • Another Pretty Face (1992) TV Episode .... Kelly Longstreet
• Psychic (1992) .... Susi
• "Family Passions" (1993) TV Series .... Anita... aka Macht der Leidenschaft (Germany)
• "Kung Fu: The Legend Continues" - Shaman (1993) TV Episode .... Dancing Moon
• Dance Me Outside (1995) .... Illianna
• Rent-a-Kid (1995) (TV) .... Teresa Woolcot
• "The Rez"
  • Episode #1.1 (1996) TV Episode .... Illianna
  • Episode #1.6 (1996) TV Episode .... Illianna
• Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Ice (1996) (TV) .... Judite
• "PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal" (1996) TV Series .... Dr. Natasha Constantine (1996–1999)
• "Chicago Hope" - Leggo My Ego (1997) TV Episode .... Lily Burroughs
• "Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest" (1997) (TV) .... Pearl Sunrise
• Fargo (2003) (TV)

External links

• http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=39819