Lisa Langlois
Encyclopedia
Lisa Langlois is a Canadian actress, who has appeared in movies, television
and theater.
where she attended a French language school becoming fluent in French
. In 1974 she represented Hamilton in the Miss Teen Canada
beauty pageant, where she finished second. Langlois graduated from McMaster University
in Hamilton.
She made her film debut in Claude Chabrol's
mystery Blood Relatives
(1978) opposite Donald Sutherland
. Chabrol also cast her in his next feature, Violette Nozière
(1978). Langlois made a number of other films in Canada, including the thriller Phobia
(1980), directed by John Huston
.
She appeared in another 1980 film, Klondike Fever
, and played leading roles in three films that have acquired cult followings: the horror film
Happy Birthday to Me (1981), the teen actioner Class of 1984
(1982) (co-starring a young Michael J. Fox
), and the killer rat shocker
Deadly Eyes
(1982).
After this work in Paris and Toronto
, Langlois moved to Los Angeles
to pursue American
projects. She appeared in two Paramount Pictures
comedy
features: The Man Who Wasn't There (1983), a 3-D
production, and National Lampoon's Joy of Sex
(1984), directed by Martha Coolidge
. In 1985 Langlois co-starred in the romantic comedy
The Slugger's Wife
, where she played a struggling singer and performed her own music
al numbers after auditioning for Quincy Jones
. She made guest appearances on television programs such as Murder, She Wrote
in 1986, and she performed on stage in the La Jolla Playhouse's
production of Once In A Lifetime
in 1988. She played the heroine in Roger Corman's
horror film The Nest
(1988) and co-starred in a made for TV movie, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1989).
During the 1990s Langlois moved back to Canada. She worked steadily including parts in the action
pictures The White Tiger (1995) and The Final Cut
(1995), alongside Sam Elliott
. She made appearances in the television series Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction? (1998), Vengeance Unlimited
(1999), and Relic Hunter
(2000). After a brief hiatus she returned to the Los Angeles stage in 2004, starring in Jungle Express in Malibu.
More recently, Langlois had a co-starring role in The Perfect Marriage (2006), a thriller that premiered on Lifetime Television
; in 2007 she had a recurring role in the TV series The L Word
. In 2010, she appeared in Summer Eleven directed by Joseph Kelly, her former co-star from Deadly Eyes
(1982).
Langlois has a son, Emerson.
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
and theater.
Biography
Langlois spent her childhood years in Hamilton, OntarioHamilton, Ontario
Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe...
where she attended a French language school becoming fluent in French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
. In 1974 she represented Hamilton in the Miss Teen Canada
Miss Teen Canada
Miss Teen Canada was a personality and beauty competition in Canada for women aged 14 to 17. The event started in 1969 and was televised on CTV. The pageant was named Miss Teenage Canada for its first three years and was originally sponsored by A&W Drive-Ins...
beauty pageant, where she finished second. Langlois graduated from McMaster University
McMaster University
McMaster University is a public research university whose main campus is located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on of land in the residential neighbourhood of Westdale, adjacent to Hamilton's Royal Botanical Gardens...
in Hamilton.
She made her film debut in Claude Chabrol's
Claude Chabrol
Claude Chabrol was a French film director, a member of the French New Wave group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s...
mystery Blood Relatives
Blood Relatives
Blood Relatives is a 1978 French film directed by Claude Chabrol....
(1978) opposite Donald Sutherland
Donald Sutherland
Donald McNichol Sutherland, OC is a Canadian actor with a film career spanning nearly 50 years. Some of Sutherland's more notable movie roles included offbeat warriors in such war movies as The Dirty Dozen, , MASH , and Kelly's Heroes , as well as in such popular films as Klute, Invasion of the...
. Chabrol also cast her in his next feature, Violette Nozière
Violette Nozière
Violette Nozière is a 1978 French crime film directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Isabelle Huppert and Stéphane Audran. The film, based on a true French murder case in 1933, is about an eighteen-year-old girl named Violette and her encounters with a number of older men. The film had a total of...
(1978). Langlois made a number of other films in Canada, including the thriller Phobia
Phobia (film)
Phobia is a thriller film released in 1980. The film stars Paul Michael Glaser from TV's Starsky and Hutch. It was directed by John Huston for Paramount Pictures.- Synopsis :...
(1980), directed by John Huston
John Huston
John Marcellus Huston was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He wrote most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon , The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , Key Largo , The Asphalt Jungle , The African Queen , Moulin Rouge...
.
She appeared in another 1980 film, Klondike Fever
Klondike Fever
Klondike Fever is a 1980 Canadian adventure film, based on the writings of Jack London.- Plot :* Jack London's journey from San Francisco to the Canadian Klondike gold fields in 1898.- Awards :...
, and played leading roles in three films that have acquired cult followings: the horror film
Horror film
Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...
Happy Birthday to Me (1981), the teen actioner Class of 1984
Class of 1984
Class of 1984 is a 1982 action-thriller movie about a newly hired music teacher at a troubled inner city school, where students have to pass through a metal detector due to problems with gangs, drugs, and violence. It was directed by Mark L...
(1982) (co-starring a young Michael J. Fox
Michael J. Fox
Michael J. Fox, OC is a Canadian American actor, author, producer, activist and voice-over artist. With a film and television career spanning from the late 1970s, Fox's roles have included Marty McFly from the Back to the Future trilogy ; Alex P...
), and the killer rat shocker
Shocker
Shocker may refer to:*Shocker , a supervillain in the Marvel Comics shared universe of comic book series*Shocker , a Mexican-American professional wrestler*Shocker , a hand gesture with a sexual connotation ie...
Deadly Eyes
Deadly Eyes
Deadly Eyes is a 1982 Canadian film directed by Robert Clouse, based on the horror novel The Rats by James Herbert. The story revolves around Giant Black Rats who begin eating the residents of Toronto after ingesting contaminated grain.-Plot:...
(1982).
After this work in Paris and Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
, Langlois moved to Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
to pursue American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
projects. She appeared in two Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still...
comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...
features: The Man Who Wasn't There (1983), a 3-D
3-D film
A 3-D film or S3D film is a motion picture that enhances the illusion of depth perception...
production, and National Lampoon's Joy of Sex
National Lampoon's Joy of Sex
National Lampoon's Joy of Sex is a 1984 film directed by Martha Coolidge. It was written by Kathleen Rowell and J.J...
(1984), directed by Martha Coolidge
Martha Coolidge
Martha Coolidge is an American film director and former President of the Directors Guild of America. -Career:Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Ms. Coolidge first made her reputation by directing many award winning documentaries in New York before moving out to Hollywood in 1976. She spent several...
. In 1985 Langlois co-starred in the romantic comedy
Romantic Comedy
Romantic Comedy can refer to* Romantic Comedy , a 1979 play written by Bernard Slade* Romantic Comedy , a 1983 film adapted from the play and starring Dudley Moore and Mary Steenburgen...
The Slugger's Wife
The Slugger's Wife
The Slugger's Wife is a 1985 romantic comedy about a baseball star who falls for a singer. Written by Neil Simon, directed by Hal Ashby and produced by Ray Stark, the film stars Michael O'Keefe, Rebecca De Mornay and Randy Quaid. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures and released on March 29,...
, where she played a struggling singer and performed her own music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
al numbers after auditioning for Quincy Jones
Quincy Jones
Quincy Delightt Jones, Jr. is an American record producer and musician. A conductor, musical arranger, film composer, television producer, and trumpeter. His career spans five decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend...
. She made guest appearances on television programs such as Murder, She Wrote
Murder, She Wrote
Murder, She Wrote is an American television mystery series starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher. The series aired for 12 seasons from 1984 to 1996 on the CBS network, with 264 episodes transmitted. It was followed by four TV films and a spin-off series,...
in 1986, and she performed on stage in the La Jolla Playhouse's
La Jolla Playhouse
La Jolla Playhouse is a not-for-profit, professional theatre-in-residence on the campus of the University of California, San Diego. -Background:...
production of Once In A Lifetime
Once in a Lifetime (play)
Once in a Lifetime is a play by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, the first of eight on which they collaborated in the 1930s.-Plot:The satirical comedy focuses on the effect talking pictures have on the entertainment industry...
in 1988. She played the heroine in Roger Corman's
Roger Corman
Roger William Corman is an American film producer, director and actor. He has mostly worked on low-budget B movies. Some of Corman's work has an established critical reputation, such as his cycle of films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, and in 2009 he won an Honorary Academy Award for...
horror film The Nest
The Nest (1988 film)
The Nest is a creature feature horror film, based on the novel by Eli Cantor , from Roger Corman's Concorde Pictures and producer Julie Corman. The tagline is "Roaches have never tasted flesh... until now." Flesh-eating roaches terrorize a peaceful island community presented as a New England...
(1988) and co-starred in a made for TV movie, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1989).
During the 1990s Langlois moved back to Canada. She worked steadily including parts in the action
Action film
Action film is a film genre where one or more heroes is thrust into a series of challenges that require physical feats, extended fights and frenetic chases...
pictures The White Tiger (1995) and The Final Cut
The Final Cut (1995 film)
The Final Cut is an 1995 American action/drama/thriller feature film directed by Roger Christian for Cine Cut Films with a screenplay by Raul Englis based on a story by Crash Leyland.-Background:The film was released in the U.S...
(1995), alongside Sam Elliott
Sam Elliott
Samuel Pack "Sam" Elliott is an American actor. His rangy physique, thick horseshoe moustache, and deep, resonant voice match the iconic image of a cowboy or rancher, and he has often been cast in such roles.-Early life:Sam Elliott was born in Sacramento, California, to a physical training...
. She made appearances in the television series Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction? (1998), Vengeance Unlimited
Vengeance Unlimited
Vengeance Unlimited was a TV series broadcasted during 1998-1999 on ABC which lasted for just one season of sixteen episodes. The show starred Michael Madsen as Mr. Chapel, a mysterious and pragmatic character keen on serving justice to those who have been ignored by the law...
(1999), and Relic Hunter
Relic Hunter
Relic Hunter is an anglophone Canadian television series, starring Tia Carrere and Christien Anholt. Actress Lindy Booth also starred for the first two seasons; Tanja Reichert replaced her for the third...
(2000). After a brief hiatus she returned to the Los Angeles stage in 2004, starring in Jungle Express in Malibu.
More recently, Langlois had a co-starring role in The Perfect Marriage (2006), a thriller that premiered on Lifetime Television
Lifetime Television
Lifetime Television, often referred to as Lifetime TV, or most commonly, Lifetime, is an American cable television specialty channel devoted to movies, sitcoms and dramas, all of which are either geared toward women or feature women in lead roles. The cable network is owned by A&E Television Networks...
; in 2007 she had a recurring role in the TV series The L Word
The L Word
The L Word is an American co-production television drama series originally shown on Showtime portraying the lives of a group of lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people and their friends, family and lovers in the trendy Greater Los Angeles, California city of West Hollywood...
. In 2010, she appeared in Summer Eleven directed by Joseph Kelly, her former co-star from Deadly Eyes
Deadly Eyes
Deadly Eyes is a 1982 Canadian film directed by Robert Clouse, based on the horror novel The Rats by James Herbert. The story revolves around Giant Black Rats who begin eating the residents of Toronto after ingesting contaminated grain.-Plot:...
(1982).
Langlois has a son, Emerson.
Filmography
- Les Liens des Sang (1978)
- Violette (1978)
- Klondike FeverKlondike FeverKlondike Fever is a 1980 Canadian adventure film, based on the writings of Jack London.- Plot :* Jack London's journey from San Francisco to the Canadian Klondike gold fields in 1898.- Awards :...
(1980) - PhobiaPhobia (film)Phobia is a thriller film released in 1980. The film stars Paul Michael Glaser from TV's Starsky and Hutch. It was directed by John Huston for Paramount Pictures.- Synopsis :...
(1980) - Happy Birthday to Me (1981)
- Class of 1984Class of 1984Class of 1984 is a 1982 action-thriller movie about a newly hired music teacher at a troubled inner city school, where students have to pass through a metal detector due to problems with gangs, drugs, and violence. It was directed by Mark L...
(1982) - Deadly EyesDeadly EyesDeadly Eyes is a 1982 Canadian film directed by Robert Clouse, based on the horror novel The Rats by James Herbert. The story revolves around Giant Black Rats who begin eating the residents of Toronto after ingesting contaminated grain.-Plot:...
(1982) - The Man Who Wasn't There (1983)
- The Slugger's WifeThe Slugger's WifeThe Slugger's Wife is a 1985 romantic comedy about a baseball star who falls for a singer. Written by Neil Simon, directed by Hal Ashby and produced by Ray Stark, the film stars Michael O'Keefe, Rebecca De Mornay and Randy Quaid. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures and released on March 29,...
(1985) - The NestThe Nest (1988 film)The Nest is a creature feature horror film, based on the novel by Eli Cantor , from Roger Corman's Concorde Pictures and producer Julie Corman. The tagline is "Roaches have never tasted flesh... until now." Flesh-eating roaches terrorize a peaceful island community presented as a New England...
(1988) - Transformations (1988)
- MindfieldMindfieldThe thrash metal band Mindfield began in Germany in the year 1994. The band started when guitarist Rainer Sickler joined with four other musicians. However the band line-up altered frequently for the following two years, it was then, in 1996 that the band released its first demo titled "Fields Of...
(1989) - The Final Cut (1996)
- White Tiger (1996)
- Fire Serpent (2007)
- Poe: Last Days of the Raven (2008)
- Summer Eleven (2010)