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Lisa Arrindell

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Lisa Arrindell
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Lisa Arrindell was born in the Bronx, New York, and brought straight home to Brooklyn. A graduate of The High School of Performing Arts-now The Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts-she went on to earn a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Theatre from The Juilliard School.

Lisa's extensive acting career spans film, television, and stage. Her notable screen credits include A Lesson Before Dying, Disappearing Acts, Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First Hundred Years, The Sin Seer, Livin' Large, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Random Acts of Flyness, Elementary, Madam Secretary, Saints & Sinners, The Quad, Notorious, Bull, and more. On stage, she has appeared in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Broadway), Jubilee (Seattle Opera), Reparations (The Billie Holiday Theatre), Richard III (NY Shakespeare Festival), Heliotrope Bouquet (Playwrights Horizons), and Earth and Sky (Second Stage), among others.

Her most recent projects include Albany Road, starring Lynn Whitfield, now available on Amazon Prime, as well as Watson on CBS and Favorite Son Christmas on BET. She is best known for her role as Vanessa in Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion and for her gripping performance in the Law & Order episode titled "Disabled." Lisa also serves as the resident acting coach for the hit Starz series P-Valley.

Beyond her acting career, Lisa is passionate about health and wholeness, inspiring and educating aspiring performing artists. She teaches theater students who are deeply curious about pursuing a career in the performing arts and is on staff at The Freeman Studio and The Billie Holiday Theatre's Youth Arts Academy in New York City. Most importantly, she is the joyful mother of two stunning, loving, highly creative, and intelligent human beings.

IG: @lisaarrindell
BornMarch 24
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      • 1 win & 2 nominations total

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    Known for

    Cicely Tyson, Henry Simmons, Blair Underwood, Lynn Whitfield, Lisa Arrindell, Boris Kodjoe, Jenifer Lewis, Tyler Perry, Rochelle Aytes, and Keke Palmer in Madea's Family Reunion (2006)
    Madea's Family Reunion
    5.3
    • Vanessa(as Lisa Arrindell Anderson)
    • 2006
    Wesley Snipes and Sanaa Lathan in Disappearing Acts (2000)
    Disappearing Acts
    6.3
    TV Movie
    • Claudette(as Lisa Arrindell Anderson)
    • 2000
    Lisa Arrindell and Isaiah Washington in The Sin Seer (2015)
    The Sin Seer
    3.6
    • Rose Ricard(as Lisa Arrindell Anderson)
    • 2015
    A Lesson Before Dying (1999)
    A Lesson Before Dying
    6.7
    TV Movie
    • Vivian Baptiste(as Lisa Arrindell Anderson)
    • 1999

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    Actress



    • Inhuman Tethers
      • Savannah Miller
      • Completed
      • Short
      • 2023
    • The Secret Between Us
      • Wanda Frazier
      • Post-production
    • Game Nite
      • Leola
      • Completed



    • Morris Chestnut in Watson (2024)
      Watson
      5.3
      TV Series
      • Felicia Mancini
      • 2025
    • An Extraordinary Life (2024)
      An Extraordinary Life
      Short
      • Adrienne Herndon
      • 2024
    • Keith David, Cole Swanson, Dane Clarke II, Jahimel Gayle-McCoy, and Amari Cheatom in Betty & Blue (2024)
      Betty & Blue
      8.2
      Short
      • The Announcer
      • 2024
    • Lynn Whitfield and Renée Elise Goldsberry in Albany Road (2024)
      Albany Road
      7.6
      • Carol
      • 2024
    • Favorite Son Christmas (2023)
      Favorite Son Christmas
      8.2
      TV Movie
      • Lady Rita
      • 2023
    • Once Upon a Time in the District (2023)
      Once Upon a Time in the District
      8.8
      • Mayor Sharp
      • 2023
    • Melissa Cox and Melissa Cox in The Christmas Clapback (2022)
      The Christmas Clapback
      7.1
      • Brandy
      • 2022
    • Amy Smart, Major Dodson, Barkhad Abdi, and Layla Felder in Tyson's Run (2022)
      Tyson's Run
      6.1
      • Dr. Wyatt
      • 2022
    • Tony Goldwyn, Maura Tierney, Hugh Dancy, Reid Scott, Mehcad Brooks, and Odelya Halevi in Law & Order (1990)
      Law & Order
      7.8
      TV Series
      • Veronica King
      • 2022
    • Our Kind of People (2021)
      Our Kind of People
      6.2
      TV Series
      • Giselle Hilgard
      • 2021–2022
    • Favorite Son (2021)
      Favorite Son
      6.4
      • First Lady Wilson
      • 2021
    • Andre Ozim in Change the Narrative (2020)
      Change the Narrative
      TV Mini Series
      • Lisa Arrindell (2020)
      • 2020
    • Michael Weatherly in The Necklace (2016)
      Bull
      7.1
      TV Series
      • Dr. Linsey Allendale
      • 2019
    • Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu in Elementary (2012)
      Elementary
      7.9
      TV Series
      • Ethiopian Consul
      • 2019
    • Téa Leoni in Madam Secretary (2014)
      Madam Secretary
      7.8
      TV Series
      • Judge Tamara Pollard
      • 2018

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      • Lisa Arrindell Anderson
    • Height
      • 5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
    • Born
      • March 24
      • Bronx, New York, USA
    • Spouse
      • Basil Anderson1993 - 2015 (divorced, 2 children)

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      • Female

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      Former member of the Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre.

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