Lisa Banes

Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Wikidata image Lisa Lou Banes (July 9, 1955 – June 14, 2021) was an American actress known for more than 80 film and television roles, as well as stage appearances on Broadway and elsewhere.

Banes won a 1981 Theatre World Award for her performance as Alison Porter Off-Broadway in Look Back in Anger and, in 1984, was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for Isn't it Romantic?. She played Lady Croom in the 1995 American premiere of Tom Stoppard's play Arcadia. In film, she appeared in Cocktail (1988), Freedom Writers (2007), Gone Girl (2014), and A Cure for Wellness (2016).

Early life

Banes was born in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. She studied acting at the Juilliard School in New York City.

Career

Stage

Banes appeared on Broadway several times. She played Cassie in the Neil Simon play Rumors in 1988 with Christine Baranski, Margaret Lord in the musical High Society with Anna Kendrick in 1998, was in Accent on Youth with David Hyde Pierce in 2009, and most recently in the 2010 revival of Present Laughter with Victor Garber.

Television and film

On television, Banes had regular roles as Doreen Morrison in The Trials of Rosie O'Neill starring Sharon Gless, and as Mayor Anita Massengil on the Fox comedy series Son of the Beach (2000–01). She also had recurring roles on The King of Queens as Carrie's boss Georgia Boone, Six Feet Under as Victoria, on One Life to Live as Eve McBain, and on Nashville Season 6 as the Ranch Director. She also guest starred as a Trill doctor in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Equilibrium". Banes played Anne Kane in the 1985 TV miniseries Kane & Abel. Her other television credits include China Beach; Murder, She Wrote; The Practice; NYPD Blue; Desperate Housewives; Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; The Good Wife; NCIS; and Once Upon a Time. From 2010 to 2016, she had a recurring role as Ellen Collins on Royal Pains.

Banes also starred as Mrs. Berry in The Hotel New Hampshire (1984), Bonnie in Cocktail (1988), Flora in Dragonfly (2002), and Christina Ricci's mother in Pumpkin (2002). In 2014, she appeared in David Fincher's Gone Girl as Marybeth Elliott, mother of Amy Elliott (Rosamund Pike).

Personal life and death

Banes lived in Los Angeles. She was married to Kathryn Kranhold.

Death

On June 4, 2021, Banes was in a marked crosswalk/pedestrian crossing on Amsterdam Avenue approaching her destination, the Juilliard School, when she was struck by a person operating an electric scooter. The scooter rider, who had gone through a red light, fled the scene of the hit and run collision on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Banes was admitted to Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital with a traumatic brain injury and died there on June 14 at the age of 65. The suspect immediately drove to an Upper Manhattan shop to get his vehicle fixed.

On August 5, 2021, police arrested 26-year old Brian Boyd at his apartment in the Amsterdam Houses, near where he ran down Banes. He was jailed on a bail of $30,000 cash or $100,000 bond. He was charged with leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death, and failure to yield to a pedestrian. On September 28, 2022, Boyd pleaded guilty to manslaughter; on November 30, 2022, he was sentenced to up to three years in prison.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984	The Hotel New Hampshire	Mother
1985	Marie	Toni Greer
1988	Cocktail	Bonnie
1988	Young Guns	Mallory
1995	Miami Rhapsody	Gynecologist
1998	Without Limits	Elfriede Prefontaine
2002	Pumpkin	Chippy McDuffy
2002	Dragonfly	Flora
2007	Freedom Writers	Karin Polachek
2008	Brothel	Priscilla
2009	Legally Blondes	Headmistress Higgins
2014	Gone Girl	Marybeth Elliott
2016	A Cure for Wellness	Hollis
2017	Six Women	Holly	Short film

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1985	Spenser: For Hire	Meghan Farrell	Episode "No Room at the Inn"
1985	Look Back in Anger	Allison Porter	TV movie
1986	One Police Plaza	Erica	TV movie
1986	The Equalizer	Allison	Episode: "Nightscape"
1987	Leg Work	Celia Checkman	Episodes: "Pilot", "The Art of Murder"
1988	Hemingway	Martha Gelhorn	Television miniseries, Main cast
1989	Life Goes On	Kathryn Henning	Episode: "Paige's Mom"
1989	China Beach	Cat Von Steeger	Episodes: "How to Stay Alive in Vietnam (Parts 1 & 2)"
1990	American Dreamer	Jessica	Episode: Pilot
1990	A Killer Among Us	Joanna Westrope	TV movie
1990	Close Encounter	Andrea Griffin	TV movie
1990–1992	The Trials of Rosie O'Neill	Doreen Morrison	Main cast
1992	The Presence	Diana	TV movie
1993	Revenge on the Highway	Vi Sams	TV movie
1993	A Family Torn Apart	Barbara Forester	TV movie
1993	Gloria Vane	Doreen	TV movie
1993	L.A. Law	Cara Mitchell	Episode: "Leap of Faith"
1993	Sisters	Barbara Buckley	Episode: "The Good Daughter"
1994	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	Doctor Renhol	Episode: "Equilibrium"
1994	Roseanne	Mrs. Simms	Episode: "White Men Can't Kiss"
1994	Cries from the Heart	Ms. Tolbert	TV movie
1995	Murder, She Wrote	Lucy Hedrix	Episode: "Shooting in Rome"
1995	High Society	Tippi Von Schlaugger	Episode: "The Naked and the Deadline"
1995	The Avenging Angel	Rebecca Heaton	TV movie
1996	My Son is Innocent	Lisa Eubanks	TV movie
1996	Last Exit to Earth	Elder	TV movie
1996	Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?	Jessica Lewsohn	TV movie
1996	Murder One	Vivien Barone	Episode: "Chapter Ten"
1996	Frasier	Pamela	Episode: "A Lilith Thanksgiving"
1998	Michael Hayes	Madeline	Episodes: "Imagine (Parts 1 & 2)
1999	Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke	Barbara Hutton	Television miniseries
1999	Legacy	Georgina Winters	4 episodes
2000–2001	Son of the Beach	Mayor Anita Massengil	Main cast (seasons 1–2)
2002	Philly	Carolyn Minelli	Episode: "Lies of Minelli"
2002	The Practice	Judge Samantha Cooke	Episode: "Eat and Run"
2002	Girls Club	Meredith Holt	Recurring role (canceled after 2 episodes)
2004	One Life to Live	Eve McBain	13 episodes
2004	It's All Relative	Viveca	Episode: "Ready, Aim, Sing"
2004	NYPD Blue	Defense Attorney	Episode: " Divorce, Detective Style"
2004	Combustion	Mayor Wallker	TV movie
2004	King of Queens	Georgia Boone	2 episodes
2005	Jake in Progress	Valerie Page	Episode: "Harpy Birthday"
2005	Six Feet Under	Victoria	3 episodes
2005	Out of Practice	Chef Vivian	Episode: "Key Ingredients"
2005	Boston Legal	Attorney Kimberly Mellon	Episode: "Truly, Madly, Deeply"
2006	In Justice	D.A. Margaret Mannheim	Episode: "Another Country"
2006	The Unit	Dr. Rhea Morrison	Episode: "SERE"
2006	Saved	Dr. Victoria Cole	Episodes: "Fog" and "Family"
2006	Desperate Housewives	Vera Keck	Episode: "Like It Was"
2007	Psych	Edna Crocker	Episode: "Forget Me Not"
2010	The Good Wife	Georgia McGowen	Episode: "Cleaning House"
2011	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Elaine Fyre Cavanaugh	Episode: "Totem"
2011	How to be a Gentleman	Madeline	Episode: "How to Attend Your Ex-Fiance's Wedding"
2012	Perception	Irene Reardon	Episodes: "Nemesis", "Kilimanjaro"
2015	NCIS	Ambassador Olivia Edmunds	Episode: "Patience"
2016	Rosewood	Esther Wilford	Episode: "Hydrocephalus and Hard Knocks"
2010–2016	Royal Pains	Ellen Collins	9 episodes
2016	Once Upon a Time	Lady Tremaine	Episode: "The Other Shoe"
2016	Masters of Sex	Nina Clavermore	Episodes: "Outliers", "Topeka"
2016	Madam Secretary	Arabelle Marsh	Episode: "Tectonic Shift"
2018	Nashville	Ranch Director	4 episodes
2021	Them	Esther Haber	Episode "Day 6"
2022	The Orville	Speria Balask	3 episodes; Posthumous release

External links

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• Lisa Banes The New York Times obituary