Trivia

Donates time to the animal sanctuary Best Friends.

She is of Russian Jewish and Polish Jewish descent.

She enjoys writing, composing music and painting.

Her father, Alvin Edelstein, was a pediatrician.

Has three dogs: Shazam!, Leylo, and Banana.

Lisa authored, composed and performed the musical "Positive Me," one of the earliest AIDS-related theater productions, at Ellen Stuart's La Mama in Manhattan.

Lisa was raised in Wayne, NJ. She graduated from Wayne Valley High School, class of 1984.

She began her professional acting career while studying theater at N.Y.U.

Played a transsexual on Ally McBeal (1997), a sex-obsessed artist on Frasier (1993), and a high-priced call girl on The West Wing (1999).

Speaks some Spanish.